Thomas Ahnert MA, PhD, FRHistS
Senior Lecturer; History
Room 1.30, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 3777Office hours: Monday 1.30-2.30pm; Tuesday 1-2pm
Biography
I was born in the US and grew up in Germany where I attended a Gymnasium with a strong emphasis on classical languages and culture. Following military service in the German army I read history at St John’s College in Cambridge, completing a PhD in 1999. I was offered a post-doctoral research fellowship by the British Academy, but decided to work in the Munich office of McKinsey and Co., a management consultancy, for some time, before returning to academia in spring 2002 to take up a three-year research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. The fellowship was associated with a research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and run by Professor Susan Manning and Dr Nicholas Phillipson, on the ‘Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment’. I was appointed to a lectureship in history in 2005, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2009.
I have been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Max-Planck Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen. In 2010 – 2011 I was the Rosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with additional support from the Herodotus Fund.
External appointments
I am an editorial board member of the journal Grotiana.