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Dr. Martin A. Ruehl is a University Associate Professor in German History and Thought at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Department of German. He holds a BA in History (starred First) from Cambridge and a PhD in History from Princeton University. His academic trajectory includes a Research Fellowship at Queens’ College (1999-2003), lectureships at Sidney Sussex College and Trinity Hall, and visiting professorships at UCLA (2013-14) and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (2020-21). In 2019, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. He played a key role in launching Cambridge's joint History & Modern Languages degree.
His research specializes in modern German intellectual history (Bismarck to Hitler), with emphases on Nietzsche reception, Jacob Burckhardt, German philhellenism, Romanticism, Conservative Revolution ideologies, and Nazi thought. His monograph The Italian Renaissance and the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930 (2015) was shortlisted for the Gladstone History Book Prize. Current work examines German debates about free/unfree labor from Enlightenment to Third Reich.
Publications (2013-2024) demonstrate consistent focus on German historiography, cultural criticism, and political philosophy, particularly through figures like Burckhardt and Nietzsche. Themes include modernity, Renaissance reception, nationalism, and aesthetic politics, often bridging historical, literary, and philosophical disciplines.
Awards & Fellowships:
- Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence (2017)
- Ford Foundation Scholarship (2019)
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
- Senior Research Fellowship, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (2019)
He teaches undergraduate courses on German thought (Ge1, Ge2, Ge10, Ge11) and MPhil seminars on 'Culture and Politics: Marx to Adorno' and 'Enlightenment and its Critics'. He has supervised 20+ PhD dissertations on topics spanning Nietzsche, Heidegger, Frankfurt School, Nazi ideology, and German film. Current doctoral projects include Wagner's 'total work of art' and Ranke's historiography.
