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Daniel Allemann is a historian of the late medieval and early modern periods in a global context.

He studied History and Anglophone Literature & Linguistics at the University of Basel. He then spent several years at the University of Cambridge, where he completed an MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History and a PhD. During his doctorate, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt. His doctoral thesis (2020) was awarded the prize for best dissertation in the Faculty of History at Cambridge.

In Lucerne he is working on several projects. In the summer of 2024 he completed his first monograph on slavery, power and rights in the early modern Iberian world, which will be published by an Anglophone university press. His current research project (Habilitation) examines how ideas of human diversity and alterity were negotiated in the region north of the Alps between the 13th and 15th centuries. He is also researching the history of indigenous political ideas from the colonial Andes and their reception in Enlightenment Europe.

Daniel is committed to communicating historical knowledge to a wide audience. At Cambridge, he co-founded Interventions: The Intellectual History Podcast. Last year, he co-authored a monthly column for the Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick, in which he and Britta-Marie Schenk presented unexpected historical perspectives on current events. Daniel was also a member of the editorial board of traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte – Revue d’histoire, which promotes the exchange of ideas between researchers in German- and French-speaking Switzerland.

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