Lebenslauf
• Seit Oktober 2022: Gastprofessor am Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte der Universität Augsburg
• SoSe 2022: Universitätsprofessor für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der LMU München (Vertretung des Lehrstuhls für die Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, Prof. Arndt Brendecke).
• 2014–2022: Professor für Buchwissenschaft (Juniorprofessur für Buchwissenschaft insbesondere historische Kommunikationsforschung) an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. W1-Professur ohne Tenure Track.
• WiSe 2015/2016: Lehrstuhlvertretung an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Lehrstuhl für Buchwissenschaft, Prof. Stephan Füssel).
• 2012–2014: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Historischen Seminar der Universität Erfurt („Eigene Stelle“; DFG).
• 2007–2011: Promotionsstipendiat der Gerda Henkel Stiftung; Post-Doc-Stipendiat an der Universität Erfurt.
• 2000–2005: Studium der Geschichtswissenschaft, Anglistik, Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, und University College Dublin (Irland).
Forschungsschwerpunkte
My interests are centered on the materiality, sociality and spatiality of communication flows, and this focus is reflected through my work touching and intersecting book history, media history, paper history, digital history, environmental history and some more. Have a look into my recent edited volumes around the topic:
• "The Intermediality of Early Modern Communication" (Milano: Franco Angeli 2022, eds. with Massimo Rospocher),
• "The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe. Practices, Materials, Networks" (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2021, eds. with Anna Reynolds),
• "Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption" (Cham: Routledge 2017, eds. with Jeroen Salman and Paul Nelles), and
• "A History of Early Modern Communication. German and Italian Historiographical Perspectives" (ed. together with Massimo Rospocher, 2019).
• " Kommunikation in der Frühen Neuzeit. Beiträge aus 20 Jahren ‚Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte'" (eds. with Holger Böning, Patrick Merziger and Rudolf Stöber), Beiträge zur Kommunikationsgeschichte Bd. 31.1., Stuttgart: Steiner 2019.
• "Kommunikation in der Moderne. Beiträge aus 20 Jahren ‚Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte'" (eds. with Holger Böning, Patrick Merziger and Rudolf Stöber), Beiträge zur Kommunikationsgeschichte Bd. 31.2., Stuttgart: Steiner 2019.
I am the author of 4 books published in German, Dutch and English, and some more 30 book chapters and journal articles, and a few pieces in newspapers, magazines, and online media. However, these are my books:
• "Flugpublizistik und Öffentlichkeit um 1700. Dynamiken, Akteure und Strukturen im urbanen Raum des Alten Reiches" (Stuttgart 2011),
• "Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe. The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections" (Cham 2017, co-authored with Bernd-Christian Otto),
• "Vernetzte Papiermärkte. Einblicke in den Amsterdamer Handel mit Papier im 18. Jahrhundert" (Köln 2020),
• "Vervlechting van de papiermarkt. De Amsterdamse papierhandel in de achttiende eeuw" (Hilversum 2021), and
• "Eine Stadttour durch Hamburg im Jahr 1686. Die App 'Hidden Hamburg' als erlebbare Geschichte und Digital-Public-History-Experiment" (Bremen 2022, co-authored with Claudia Heise).
From 2019 to 2022, I was part of the European project "PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present" (PURE), a collaborative project funded from HERA with about 1 million Euro. The German part of the project is funded by the BMBF and includes an app-trail city tour through 1686 Hamburg ("Hidden Hamburg"), an open access book, and a graphic novel titled "Hamburg 1686". You may want to check this presentation of the project on the BMBF website. The entire project won the "Digital Humanities Award 2022" in the category "Best Use of DH for Fun", and experiments with locative media approaches to early modern urban history, and several app trails through European cities have been and will be published. Do check the project's first edited volume (" Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe"), and our website: http://www.hiddencities.eu.
My other recent projects include leading a project funded by the German Research Association (DFG) that builds until 2024 an online database for the German writing calendar - the "Schreibkalender". Have a look here: https://schreibkalender.wisski.data.fau.de
Recently, I have started writing a book on early modern news and communication, and I am preparing my thoughts together with Agnes Gehbald on what a global book history through the lens of paper usages might look like. Also, I am planing to connect environmental history with paper history in the near future: the textile economies of early modern Europe will be the topic of an upcoming international conference to be announced soon. You can follow my recent interests on Mastodon ( https://historians.social/@dbellingradt ), Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/dbellingradt.bsky.social ), and my past social media sharing up to November 2022 on Twitter if you like: https://twitter.com/dbellingradt ).