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Augusta DIMOU is Privatdozentin at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History, University of Leipzig. She received her degrees from the Universities of Innsbruck (B.A., 1993), Florida (M.A., 1995), the European University Institute (Ph.D., 2003), and the University of Leipzig (Habil., 2022). She has been researcher and/or lecturer at the University of Ioannina (2005-2007), Institute of Slavic Studies of the University of Leipzig (2006-2009), Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research –
Braunschweig (2003-2006), IOS – Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies – Regensburg (2016-2017), Humboldt University
(2014-2025), and the Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) (2010-2012). She has held postdocs and/or scholarships at the German Historical Institute in Paris (2015, 2023), New Europe College (NEC, 2021-2022), Gerda Henkel Foundation (2015-2016), Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study (FRIAS, 2013), Center of Advanced Study – Sofia (CAS, 2009-2010), Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, 2002), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2005).
Augusta Dimou specializes in comparative and transnational history at the intersection between regional, European, and global processes with a focus on Southeastern and Eastern Europe. She has worked on modern state-, and nation-building, the history of political modernity and the diffusion of modern ideologies, the sociology of intellectuals and the history of social movements. In her most recent work, she has concentrated on the history of intellectual property, the history of media and the development of cultural professions.
Within TransCorr, Augusta Dimou will concentrate on (theoretical and practical) notions and processes of “transition.” Her project “empire after empire” will investigate the post-1878, post-Ottoman administrative set-up of the Habsburg empire in Bosnia and the perceptions of the successor empire on the ancien régime.
Email: [email protected]
Selected Publications:
Entangled Paths Towards Modernity. Contextualizing Socialism and Nationalism in the Balkans. Budapest/N.Y: CEU Press, 2009.
Re-Imaging the Balkans. How to Think and Teach a Region (with Theodora
Dragostinova and Veneta Ivanova), Festschrift in Honor of Professor Maria N.
Todorova, (Schriften zur Gegenwart und Geschichte Südosteuropas, vol. 168).
Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.
Contesting Copyright. A History of Intellectual Property in East Central Europe and the Balkans (19th and 20th centuries). Budapest/N.Y: CEU Press, 2023.