Assistant Professor in World History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Bye-Fellow, Jesus College

Moritz Mihatsch is an Assistant Professor in World History and a Bye-Fellow at Jesus College. He studied in Zürich, Cairo, Copenhagen and Oxford. He has taught in the UK, Egypt, Jordan and Palestine, and has been a research fellow in Khartoum, Brussels, Copenhagen, and Vienna.

His research focus revolves around three large scale projects. In his PhD he focussed on nationalism, looking at notions of Sudanese nationhood expressed by political parts in the 1950s and 60s. He has later written on nations and nationalism also with reference to the UAE and the Afro-Palestinian community in Jerusalem. His second project focusses on sovereignty, with the key publication being the book Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice. He has also published on sovereignty with reference to Liberia, Sudan, and Kurdistan. His most recent project focusses on history of historiography and epistemological sovereignty, with a particular focus on the History of Mankind produced and published by UNESCO from the 1940s to the 1970s. Combining a international institutional perspective with an epistemological perspective, the project asks how we can establish a basis for cooperation across major rifts, like during the Cold War, and how across these divides we can formulate a shared understanding of the past and present.

Moritz Mihatsch has been involved with a variety of civic education and policy projects. In Liberia after the end of the civil war he trained election observers and worked with the European Commission on capacity building in the Liberian Senate. In Iraq he participated with USIP in trainings for NGOs on digital activism. In Egypt he help building a number of web platforms, including two platforms which tracked the 2013–14 constitution writing process and the 2014 presidential election.