Daniel Bellingradt

About

Hi there, my name is Daniel Bellingradt, and I am trained as a historian and communication scholar. Since 2014 I am holding several professorships - prior to my recent guest position in Augsburg I was working as a professor in Munich (at the History Department), in Erlangen (at the Institute for the Study of the Book), and in Mainz (within Book Studies). I earned my Ph.D. in 2010 at the Free University of Berlin, after having studied History, Communication Studies, and English Studies in Berlin (Free University and Humboldt University) and Dublin (UCD). In 2015, I became co-editor of the German journal "Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte", and in 2018 I was lucky enough to be awarded the "Maria-Weber-Grant" (Hans Böckler Foundation) for outstanding postdoctoral scholars. As can easily be seen in my 4 books published in German, Dutch and English - and some more 35 chapters and articles, and various edited volumes - my interests are clearly centered on the materiality, sociality and spatiality of communication flows, and this focus is reflected through my work touching and intersecting book history, media history, paper history, digital history, environmental history, the history of knowledge, and some more. My teaching topics range from Medieval written culture, to Early Modern and Modern book and knowledge contexts, to long-term media and paper recycling, to coding and App-building seminars around locative media. Over the last years I received funding in total of about 1.2 Million Euro for my work from HERA, the German Research Association (DFG), and some other foundations. I do enjoy my work. And, after being a professor for 10 years, I am still looking for a permanent position in academia. Here is a summary if you are interested in most of my recent activities: https://danielbellingradt.hcommons.org