About
Marung is a Professor at the University of Leipzig and has been affiliated as a Researcher with the University’s Centre for Area Studies, now Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), since 2011. She holds a PhD from the University of Leipzig’s Graduate Center Humanities and Social Sciences, and a master’s in Political Science and German Literature from the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Marung’s main research fields include regimes and territorialization in global history, history of area studies, and European integration history. Her current research project is titled: “Area Studies in Soviet Union: An Entangled History with a Specific Focus on Soviet African Studies.”
Selected publications
- Marung, S. and Middell, M. (eds.) (2019) Spatial Formats under the Global Condition (Dialectics of the Global series). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 399pp.
- Marung, S. and Naumann, K. (eds.) (2014) Vergessene Vielfalt. Territorialität und Internationalisierung in Ostmitteleuropa seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. [Forgotten Plurality. Territoriality and Internationalisation in East-Central Europe since the Middle of the 19th Century.] Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 260pp.