Dominik Sauerer

Dominik Sauerer graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a degree in German Language and Literature Studies, Social Studies, and History. After having worked as a student research assistant and graduate research assistant, he started his DFG-funded PhD project »Territorialization from below? Belonging and state-building in Leipzig (1485–1806)« at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2016. Since March 2017, he is a research associate to Prof. Dr. Birgit Emich at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt. His research focuses on state-building processes, the cultural history of administration, belonging and identity as well as space, spatial cognition, and territorialization.