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Professor Goschler was born and educated in Germany. He studied for his undergraduate degree and also for his PD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
In 1992 he became an assistant professor at the Humboldt-University Berlin. In 1998 the taught as a guest lecturer at the Charles-University Prague, and from 1998 to 1999 he was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He continued his academic career at the Humboldt-University Berlin, the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and the Ruhr-University Bochum, where he became a full professor for modern history in 2006. From 2016 to 2019 he was the dean of the Faculty of History at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
Professor Goschler received numerous grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation and the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development. He also organized many national and international research projects.
Professor Goschler also consulted a number of documentary films, most importantly "The Wings of History. The Story of the Luxembourg Agreements" (2022).
His latest book Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production. Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War (ed. with Rüdiger Bergien u. Debora Gerstenberger) was published by Routledge Press (London/New York) in 2022. He is also an editor of the Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit.
Expertise
20 century Germany/Europe, restitution post-dictatorships and biopolitics