Historical Educational Research
Prof. Dr. Till Kössler
Raum
1.317 (Gebäude216, Bauteil 3, 1. Etage)
Brieffach
3
Adresse
Gronewaldstr. 2
50931 Köln
Sprechstunde
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Till Kössler has been Professor of Historical Education Research at the University of Cologne since September 2025. Previously, he was a professor of historical education at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Ruhr University Bochum with a dissertation on the history of communism in the Federal Republic of Germany and served as a research assistant at the Institute of History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2003 to 2011. In the spring of 2011, he completed his habilitation there with a dissertation on childhood and society in Spain before the Civil War. From 2011 to 2018, he served as a professor of the social history of growing up and education at Ruhr University Bochum. He has served as a visiting scholar at institutions including the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the University of California, Berkeley, and New York University (Shanghai Campus). His research focuses on the history of education and childhood in Europe, the history of the nature-nurture debate, the history of violence and the overcoming of violence, and the history of authoritarian regimes after 1945.
Positions
- Association of German Historians
- Working Group on History and Theory
- Working Group on Historical Peace and Conflict Research
- Member of the Executive Board of the Institute for Social Movements (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Member of the Historical Advisory Board of the Education and Science Union
- Member of the Advisory Board of the doctoral program "Research on Social Democracy(ies) and Their Movements"
- Co-editor of the series “Peace and War”
- Co-editor of the Yearbook for Historical Education Research
- Member of the editorial board of Pedagogica Historica
- Liaison Professor for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- Expert reviewer for the DFG, DAAD, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Research Projects
- History of the Nature-Nurture Debate
- Education and Society in Authoritarian Regimes of the 20th Century
- Violence against children: Perceptions, coming to terms with the past, and sociopolitical consequences from a global historical perspective