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 the Chinese People’s University in Beijing. In 2003, she completed her habilitation
at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and subsequently taught first
as an assistant professor 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 Scientific Society of the University of Freiburg and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Research Center for Chinese Studies in Beijing, as well as a member of the Scientific 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 imperial period in China in the context of comparative imperial history, 20th-century nationalism in China, the history of Chinese humanities, long-term political developments in the Republic of China (1912–1949), the cultural foundations of Chinese modernity, the history of Central Asia (Tibet, Mongolia), and the environmental history of China.

She has served as Vize President of the Philosophical and Historical Class since October 2022.

Deputy Vize President: Jan Christian Gertz