Christian Müller (historian)

Christian Müller is a German historian previously residing in Ningbo, China.

In Göttingen, he was writing a book entitled The Politics of Expertise: The Institutionalization of Transnational Legal and Social Networks in Europe, 1840–1914.

However, this book project was aborted with his move to China.

His research focuses on global connections between the West and Asia from the early modern period to the 21st Century, emphasizing imperialism, transnationalism, normative orders, labour mobility, travel writing, encounters between civilizations, curiosity, and identities.

Müller has a life-long affiliation to University College Oxford.

Between 1995 and 1998, Müller studied History, Law, Politics, Germanic languages at Heidelberg University.

In 1999, he completed his Master of Studies in Modern History and Political thought at University College, Oxford.

Between 1999 and 2002, he studied History and Germanic Languages at Heidelberg University for a Master of Arts.

Between 2003 and 2007, he was a doctoral student in History at the same university.

Müller was a Junior Research Group Leader and Lecturer in Modern History at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster (2008–12).

He was a Visiting Researcher at Ghent University (2011–13) and a Lecturer in History, Culture and Communications at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen (2014–15).

Müller went to Ningbo, China in August 2015.

He was an Associate Professor in Modern European and International History at UNNC (2015–2023).

He has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since July 2016.

In November 2018, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He worked as the Director of Research at School of International Studies, Co-Director of the Centre for Advanced International Studies, and the Director of the Global Institute for Silk Roads Studies (2018–2023) of this university.

Since September 2018, he has held Visiting fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford.

Since May 2022, he has been a Fellow of the Peer Review College at Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

In China, Müller has previously worked with, guest lectured, or disseminated research findings at the Ningbo University, Tinyi Ge Library, Fudan University, and Princeton University Press' China division.

At UNNC, Müller received Lord Dearing Award (2020), Merit prize of "Four knows" of Ningbo Spirit Translation Competition (September 2020), and Vice-Chancellor’s Medal of the University of Nottingham (June 2018).