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Daniel Allemann is a historian of the late medieval and early modern periods in a global context.

He studied History and Anglophone Literature & Linguistics at the University of Basel. He then spent several years at the University of Cambridge, where he completed an MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History and a PhD. During his doctorate, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt. His doctoral thesis (2020) was awarded the prize for best dissertation in the Faculty of History at Cambridge.

At Lucerne, he is working on several projects. He is completing a monograph on slavery, rights, and power in the early modern Iberian world, based on his doctoral dissertation. His second book project (Habilitation) examines the emergence of the global history of the premodern period since 1992. Finally, he also works on the history of indigenous Andean political ideas.

Daniel is a member of the editorial board of the journal “traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte – Revue d’histoire.” He was a founding convener of “Interventions: The Intellectual History Podcast.” Together with Britta-Marie Schenk, he writes the monthly column “Geschichte, jetzt!” for the Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick, presenting unexpected historical perspectives on current affairs.

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