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Ralph Weber New Assistant Professor
Colleagues and friends of the Institute for European Global studies cordially welcome Ralph Weber as the Institute’s new Assistant Professor of European Global Studies. His election by the rector’s office was confirmed by the University Council on October 23, 2014.
Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber will begin his work as Assistant Professor of European Global Studies (with tenure track) on December 1, 2014. The Institute for European Global Studies’ new professorship is attached to the Faculty of Humanities. At the moment, Weber is senior researcher and head of a research group on comparative philosophy at the University of Zurich’s University Research Priority Program “Asia and Europe”.
Ralph Weber was born in 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied Political Science (politics, economics and law) at the University of St. Gallen as well as at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Further, he studied at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa and the University of Peking, after which he worked as teaching and research assistant at the Chair of Political Science (Prof. Roland Kley) at the University of St. Gallen, where he also obtained his doctorate and has subsequently been teaching the history of political ideas and political theory. Since 2008, Weber has been employed by the University of Zurich, where he also worked on his habilitation on comparative philosophy. His research interests include methodological and conceptual aspects of translinguistic and transcultural research, as well as comparative philosophy, Chinese political philosophy, Chinese politics, and Confucianism.
On behalf of the colleagues and friends of the Institute for European Global Studies, I cordially welcome Mr. Weber at our institution.
Madeleine Herren
Director of the Institute for European Global Studies