Dr. Till Knobloch

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Since October 2026: Research Associate at the Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence
2025-2026: DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
2025-2026: Affiliated Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, DC
2025: Visiting Lecturer at the Chair of 19th- and 20th-Century History, University of Potsdam
2023: Visiting researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin
2022–2023: Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
2020: Visiting Student at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
2017–2025: PhD studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2016–2017: Studies at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Erasmus)
2016: Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London (KCL Study Abroad Program)
2014–2015: Studies at the University of Connecticut (Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program) 2010–2011: Studies in History and Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin
2009–2016: Studies in History and Mathematics at Heidelberg University
2009: Studies in History and Mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

“The End or the Beginning of History? How Helmut Kohl Envisioned the World After the Cold War” (submitted to the Journal of Cold War Studies, currently under peer-review).
“Failure to Communicate: How the British Guarantee to Poland was Perceived in London, Warsaw and Berlin” (submitted to Diplomacy & Statecraft, currently under peer-review).
“Hochstapler Hitler. Über Täuschung als Prinzip der NS-Außenpolitik,” in: Hochstapelei: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Täuschung im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by: Tobias Becker, Michael Homberg. Thomas Werneke, Verbrecher Verlag, 2026.
“Der Berghof als Ort außenpolitischer Entscheidungen,” in: Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte, edited by: Sönke Kunkel, Michael Homberg, Johanna Sackel, Martin Deuerlein, and Jonas Klein, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025, 125-152.
“Wahn und Wirklichkeit: Wie die Illusion einer gemeinsamen Erinnerung an die Julikrise 1914 die Entfesselung des Zweiten Weltkriegs beeinflusste,” in: Außenbeziehungen und Erinnerung: Funktionen, Dynamiken, Reflexionen, edited by Friedrich Kießling and Caroline Rothauge, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021, 117-134.

Review of: Klaus H. Schmider, Hitler’s Fatal Miscalculation. Why Germany Declared War on the United States. (Cambridge Military Histories.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2021, in: Historische Zeitschrift 321/3 (2025).
Review of: Michael Epkenhans (ed.), Lessons Learnt? The Impact of the Great War and the Paris peace Conference on the Military – a Global Perspective, Potsdam, 2024, in: International Journal of Military History and Historiography, 2024: 44/3, 554-556.
Review of: Brendan Simms, Hitler, London: Allen Lane, 2019, in: Francia-Recensio, 2020-2, Époque contemporaine, DOI: 10.11588/frrec.2020.2.73361.