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Timothy Nunan is a Professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge at the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS) at the University of Regensburg. His research spans international history, Russian and Soviet history, and the history of the modern Middle East, with a focus on transregional intellectual and cultural exchanges.
- University of Regensburg (Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities)
- Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" affiliate
- Cooperation with University of Kansas Area Studies centers
His research interests include Cold War-era international development, Soviet humanitarian interventions, Shiite Islamism during decolonization, and transnational networks of knowledge production. Recent work explores tensions in transatlantic academic collaboration under the Trump administration's policies.
The article "Precarious Area Studies on the Prairie" (2025) analyzes US academic freedom challenges, focusing on surveillance of Middle East studies, ICE actions against international students, and prairie ecosystem preservation as a metaphor for endangered intellectual traditions.
Nunan's funded projects include a major AHRC-DFG grant on Soviet and post-Soviet sexualities history in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. He promotes German academic initiatives like DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships for transatlantic exchange.
His Kansas visit included collaborations with scholars such as Sheyda Jahanbani and Erik Scott, public lectures on Cold War Islamism, and engagement with indigenous cultural preservation efforts at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.
