Till van Rahden

Till van Rahden is a Professor of German and European Studies at the Université de Montréal where he held a Canada Research Chair from 2006 to 2016. He earned an M.A. in American History at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in History at the University of Bielefeld. He is interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the recurrent presence of diversity and moral conflicts. His publications include Vielheit: Jüdische Geschichte und die Ambivalenzen des Universalismus (Hamburg, 2022) and, as co-editor, Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg (Göttingen, 2010), and Horizonte der Demokratie: Offene Lebensformen nach Walt Whitman (Bielefeld, 2024).