2018: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

2018: Meyer Struckmann Prize for Research in the Humanities and Social Science

2018: Reuchlin Prize of the City of Pforzheim

2018: Bielefeld Science Prize

2017: Fellow of the British Academy

2017: Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose of the German Academy for Language and Literature

2017: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair in the category Nonfiction for Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit (Maria Theresia. The Empress in Her Time)

since 2016: Full Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2015-2016: Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

since 2015: Member of the Academia Europaea

since 2014: Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

2013: Prize of the Historical College Munich for Des Kaisers alte Kleider. Verfassungsgeschichte und Symbolsprache des Alten Reiches (The Emperor’s Old Clothes. Constitutional History and Symbolic Language of the Old Empire)

since 2013: Member of the German National Academy Leopoldina

2012: Innovation Prize of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia

2012: Translation Prize of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association for the book Des Kaisers alte Kleider (The Emperor’s Old Clothes)

5/2009: Chercheur invitée at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Visiting researcher at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris)

since 2009: Full Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

since 2009: Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences

since 2009: Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

2007: Honorary doctorate from the École normale supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines, Lyon (Upper Normal School of Letters and Humanities)

2005: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG (German Research Association)

since 2022: Member of the Foundation Council of the Forum Transregional Studies

since 2021: Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Historical Museum

since 2021: Member of the Foundation Council of the Preußische Seehandlung (Prussian Maritime Trade Foundation)

since 2021: Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger College “Legal Unity and Pluralism”, University of Münster

since 2021: Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the research association “Compromise Cultures”, University of Duisburg-Essen

since 2021: Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Regensburg City Museum

since 2020: Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities ofEssen

since 2020: Member of the Foundation Council of the Einstein Foundation Berlin

since 2020: Member of the Advisory Board of the Einstein Forum Potsdam

since 2018: Member of the Foundation Council of the Center for Advanced Study Sofia

since 2018: Member of the Foundation Council of the New Europe College Bucharest

since 2018: Member of the Foundation Council of the Centre Marc Bloch

since 2018: Co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte (Magazine for the History of Ideas)

2016-2020: Member of the Selection Commission for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Council

since 2016: Member of the Advisory Board of the Historical Journal, Cambridge

2015-2020: Founding Spokesperson and Executive Board Member of the Special Research Area 1150 “Cultures of Decision-Making”

2015-2020: Member of the Selection Commission for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorships

2014-2018: Member of the Selection Commission for the Research Prize of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg

2011-2015: Spokesperson of the Excellence Cluster “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation”, since then Member of the Executive Board

2011-2018: Academic Advisory Board of the Gerda Henkel Foundation

2008-2018: Member of the University Council Member of the University of Münster

2008-2013: Advisory Board Member of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study (FRIAS)

since 2006: Co-editor of the magazine Der Staat (The State)

2006-2015: Member of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

2004-2008: Deputy Chairperson of the German Historians’ Association

since 2003: Co-editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Zeitschrift für historische Forschung (Magazine for Historical Research)

2003-2013: Spokesperson for the Special Research Area 496 “Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution”

1999-2005: Member of the German Research Association of the Senate and Member of the Approval Commission for the Postgraduate Program

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