Joachim von Puttkamer is Director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg and Professor of Eastern European History at the Institute of History of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. After studying in Freiburg and London, he obtained his doctorate in 1994 for a thesis on labour legislation in the late Tsarist Empire. From 1994 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern and East European History at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, where he was habilitated in 2000 with his thesis on everyday school life and national integration in Hungary. His publications include the monograph Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (DeGruyter/Oldenbourg), a recent monograph on police brutality and society in socialist Poland (Hamburger Edition) as well as and The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, where he serves as co-editor.
