Biographical Summary

Sören Urbansky is a historian of Russia and China in the modern era, specializing in imperial and racial entanglements, emigration and the history of borders. Before he joined the GHI in 2018, he has taught Chinese and Russian history at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg and 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) and Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). He is currently embarking on a new project that examines anti-Chinese sentiments in a global perspective.

See all his publications on academia.edu.