Personal Details: Demantowsky, Marko
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Member PHW Executive Board
Marko Demantowsky, PhD (*1970), is full professor for modern history and history education at at the School of Education FHNW (Departement for Social Sciences Education) and a member of the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Basel.
Previously assistant professor for history education at the University of Bochum (07-12) and interim professor at Jena University (07-08) and Siegen University (06/07). Research assistant at the universities of Leipzig, Dortmund, Münster 1998-2007. In July 2020 appointment to a chair for Public History at the University of Vienna, accepted in May 2021.
His main research interests focus on the digital transformation particularly in Public History, the (digital) cultural anthropology of public history, and the theory and history of historical education.
He has developed and now co-manages multilingual infrastructures in the field of digital history.
Born in 1970 in Leipzig (East-Germany), grown up in the small town Delitzsch.
Marko Demantowsky, Dr. phil. (*1970), Professor für Neuere/Neueste Geschichte und ihre Didaktik an der Pädagogischen Hochschule FHNW (Leiter der Professur für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften und ihre Disziplinen) und Mitglied des Instituts für Bildungswissenschaften der Universität Basel.
Zuvor Juniorprofessor für Didaktik der Geschichte an den Ruhr-Universität Bochum (07-12), Vertretungsprofessor an den Universitäten Jena (WiSe 07 - SoSe 08) und Siegen (WiSe 06/07) tätig. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an den Universitäten Leipzig, Dortmund, Münster 1998-2007. Im Juli 2020 Ruf auf einen Lehrstuhl für Public History an der Universität Wien, angenommen im Mai 2021.
Forschungsschwerpunkte: die Digitale Transformation, insbesondere der Public History, die (digitale) Kulturanthropologie der Public History sowie die Theorie und Geschichte der historischen Bildung.
Begründung, Entwicklung und Management von mehrsprachigen Infrastrukturen im Bereich der digitalen Geschichte/Public History.
Geboren 1970 in Leipzig, aufgewachsen in Delitzsch (Sachsen).
Recently published, a short theory of public history:
What is Public History? De Gruyter Publishers, 2019
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Landscape and Identity
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Landscape and Identity
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Work in Progress. An Interim Editorial
Aus der Werkstatt: ein Zwischeneditorial
Work in Progress. An Interim Editorial
Copyright (c) 2020 by De Gruyter Oldenbourg and the author, all rights reserved. This work may be copied and redistributed for non-commercial, educational purposes, if permission is granted by the... Read More ›
Teaching between Pre- and Post-Corona. An Essay (2)
Teaching between Pre- and Post-Corona. An Essay (2)
Abstract: This is part 2 of the essay about the exceptional demands on university teaching in the digital-distant semester at the German-speaking universities forced by the corona crisis. The two... Read More ›
التاريخ العام في العالم العربي ومنه وحول
Public History in, from and about the Arab World | Public History in, aus und über die arabische Welt
التاريخ العام في العالم العربي ومنه وحول
The two editors of this month’s issue set out in search of a multilingual and multicultural discourse in relation to what is called the “Arab world”.
Teaching between Pre- and Post-Corona. An Essay (1)
Präsenz der Lehre zwischen Prä- und Postcoronazän (1)
Teaching between Pre- and Post-Corona. An Essay (1)
This essay draws cautious conclusions about the digital and distant arrangements enforced upon teaching and learning by the corona pandemic.
About Today’s Collective Identity Politics
Über heutige Politiken kollektiver Identität
About Today’s Collective Identity Politics
Monthly Editorial February 2020 | Einführung in den Monat Februar 2020 Abstract: The angelic sculpture on the cover of this editorial leads us directly into the framework of this... Read More ›
Public History in, from and about Russia
Публичная история в России и о России | Public History in, aus und über Russland
Public History in, from and about Russia
Monthly Editorial October 19 | Ежемесячное издание: октябрь 19 | Einführung in den Monat Oktober 19