To foster historically informed knowledge-production and targeted dialogue with policy- and decisionmakers, CHIOS offers Senior and Post-Doc Fellowships at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. Calls will be announced at the beginning of each academic year.
CHIOS Senior Fellow (2026-27) is Jun Nakata. He is Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ibaraki University, Japan.
Born in 1965 in Akita Prefecture, Japan, Jun Nakata graduated from the Faculty of Education at Tokyo Gakugei University, followed by a Master’s degree in European History at the university’s Graduate School of Education. With a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he studied at and obtained his PhD in History from the University of Hamburg in 2000. Besides Ibaraki University, he lectures and teaches regularly at various Japanese universities. Jun specialises in contemporary history, especially in the history of 20th-century Germany, in environmental history and the history of social movements. Among his publications are a history of the Green movement in Germany (published in Japanese, Tokyo 2023) and Grenz- und Landesschutz in der Weimarer Republik 1918–1933. Die geheime Aufrüstung und die deutsche Gesellschaft (Freiburg i. Br., 2002).
The first CHIOS Senior Fellow (2024-25) is Miroslav Šedivý. He is Professor at the University of Pardubice’s Institute of Historical Sciences.
Born in Prague in 1980, Miroslav Šedivý completed his PhD in general history at Charles University in Prague in 2008. He then worked at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and since 2020 he is a professor at the University Pardubice. He was a guest lecturer at the Universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, Lodz, Hildesheim and Prague, and he was a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna, at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow and the Humboldt University in Berlin. In his research he primarily deals with 19th century international relations on which he has published a trilogy: Metternich, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question (Pilsen, 2013), Crisis among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question (London-New York, 2017), and The Decline of the Congress System: Metternich, Italy and European Diplomacy (London-New York, 2018). Most recently, he is the author of The Victory of Realism: The German Quest for International Security 1839–1853 (Paderborn, 2024).
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