Historians in Conversation, episode 34 - Michael Mascuch

“Historians in Conversation”, episode 34: Michael Mascuch

The podcast "Historians in Conversation" is produced by Michael Green, prof. of the University of Lodz in Poland.

How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Prof. Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.   

Episode 34: Michael Mascuch is associate professor at the University of California in Berkeley. He specialises on early modern history, while working at the Department of Rhetoric, with keen interest in egodocuments. He also serves as co-editor at the Brill series Egodocuments and History. The conversation revolves around the questions of personal and academic choices that shaped his career, and the specificities of American academia and the changes it underwent in recent years. He is the author and editor of several books, and numerous articles, among them:

Origins of the Individualist Self: Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791, Stanford, 1997.

Controlling Time and Shaping the Self, edited together with Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, Leiden, 2011.