Biographical Summary

Sören Urbansky is a historian of Russia and China in the modern era, specializing in imperial and racial entanglements, migration, infrastructure, and the history of borders. He joined the GHI in 2018, first as a research fellow in global and transnational history in Washington, DC, and since 2021 as head of its Pacific Regional Office at UC Berkeley. He is also currently a visiting lecturer at Central European University in Vienna. Sören has previously taught Chinese and Russian history at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Kolonialer Wettstreit: Russland, China, Japan und die Ostchinesische Eisenbahn (Frankfurt: Campus, 2008) [TV interview with Alexander Kluge], Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020) [New Books Network podcast with Ed Pulford], and An den Ufern des Amur: Die vergessene Welt zwischen China und Russland (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2021) [Radio interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur]. Sören is currently embarking on a new project that examines anti-Chinese sentiments in a global perspective.

See all his publications on academia.edu.