Prof. em. Dr. Georg Kreis
Founding Director, Lecturer in History
Institute for European Global Studies,
University of Basel
Riehenstrasse 154
CH-4058 Basel
Office 02.002
Tel: +41 (0)61 207 48 57
Prof. Dr. Georg Kreis was director of the Europainstitute from 1993 - end of July 2011 and is professor emeritus for Modern History at the History Seminar at the University of Basel since 2009. He is still teaching history at the Europainstitute.
Education
1981: Habilitation on the 3rd French Republic till 1914 (PD Dr. phil.)
1972: Doctoral thesis on the Swiss censorship of the press during World War II (Dr phil.)
Studies in History, German language and literature and Geography in Basel (Bonjour, Kaegi, Lüthy), Paris (Duroselle), and Cambridge (Hinsley)
Professional Career
1993-2011: Director of the interdisciplinary Europainstitute
until 2010: Professor of Modern History and History of Switzerland at the University of Basel (emeritus since 2009)
Editor-in-Chief of the "Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte"
2007-2010: head of the online-history-project "550 Jahre Universität Basel"(2010), together with Susanna Burghartz
since autumn 2007: head of the authors-group for a "Neue Schweizer Geschichte" (New Swiss History)
2000-2005: President of the NF steering group "Schweiz-Südafrika" ("Switzerland - South Africa")
1996-2003: Member of the independent expert commission "Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg" ("Switzerland - World War II")
1995-2011: President of the "Eidgenössische Kommission gegen Rassismus" (Federal Commission Against Racism)
1991/1992: Delegate of the Federal Council to draft a historical report on the national defence from 1935 to 1990 in Switzerland
1985-1993: Head of the Nationales Forschungsprogramm (National Research Programme) NFP 21: "Kulturelle Vielfalt und nationale Identität"