Paul Vickers joined the University of Regensburg in 2018 as founding manager of CITAS and was then manager of DIMAS until September 2024.
He is still at the University as coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America (external link, opens in a new window). You can find his detailed profile on the ScienceCampus website here. (external link, opens in a new window)
Vita
Dr. Paul Vickers has been the coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America (external link, opens in a new window) since its founding in September 2019. He joined the University of Regensburg in April 2018 as manager of the Center for International and Transnational Area Studies (CITAS), which in 2022 became the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS), where he was manager until September 2024.
From September 2014 to March 2018 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, where he also taught in the Department of East European History and in the Department of Slavonic Studies.
He gained his PhD in 2013 from the University of Glasgow with a thesis that explored relations between popular autobiography, popular memory, censorship and academic research in relation to the former German territories of postwar Poland. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Reading European Cultures (Slavonic Studies) from the University of Glasgow in 2007. It was during this time that he developed his interest in investigating Polish, German and East European memory cultures that first emerged in the course of his BA in Polish and German Studies at University College London (2002-2006), which including semesters at the University of Hamburg and the University of Wroc?aw. In 2008 and again between 2012 and 2014 he was a lecturer at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
As part of the ScienceCampus, he is a member of the editorial board of the blog-journal Frictions (external link, opens in a new window) and is coordinating the emerging Areapedia project. He has served as a peer reviewer for journals including Gender & History (external link, opens in a new window), Journal of Perpetrator Research (external link, opens in a new window), Frontiers of Narrative Studies (external link, opens in a new window), and Zagadnienia Rodzajo?w Literackich/The Problems of Literary Genres (external link, opens in a new window). He has also acted as reviewer for book proposals with Routledge.
Paul Vickers has also translated scholarly works from Polish to English and German to English, specializing in texts from history, social sciences, theatre studies, biography studies and cultural studies.