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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 first completed the MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History, followed by a PhD. During his doctorate, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. His doctoral thesis (2020) was awarded the prize for best dissertation in the Faculty of History at Cambridge.

In Lucerne, he is working on three projects. The first is a monograph on slavery, rights, and power in the early modern Iberian world, based on his doctoral dissertation. He is also developing a second book (Habilitation) on indigenous political ideas from the Andean region and their reception in Europe. Finally, he is also working on a project that focuses on practical knowledge for unmasking enemies and spies in the later Middle Ages.

Daniel is an editorial board member 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 directs the essay series “Geschichte im Blick,” which appears in the Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick and presents unexpected historical perspectives on current affairs.

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