Sabine Dabringhaus

Sabine Dabringhaus studied Chinese studies, history, and political science in Freiburg and Munich. She earned her doctorate from 1987 to 1990 at the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China in Beijing. In 2003, she completed her habilitation thesis, *
*, at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and subsequently taught first as a junior professor at
and, since 2009, as a professor of
East Asian History(external link) at the University of Freiburg.

She is a member of the Executive Board of the Academic Society of the University of Freiburg, Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the European Research Centre for Chinese Studies in Beijing, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Walter Benjamin College at the University of Bern. She is also co-editor of the *Historische Zeitschrift*(HZ).

Her research focuses on the history of the late Qing Empire in China within the context of comparative imperial history, 20th-century Chinese nationalism, the history of Chinese humanities, long-term political developments in the Republic of China (1912–1949), the cultural foundations of modern China, the history of Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia), and the environmental history of China.

She has been the secretary of the Philosophy and History Section since October 2022.

Selected Publications (PDF)

Deputy Secretary: Jan Christian Gertz(internal link)