Stefan Rohdewald (born 1972 in Zug, CH) was Professor for Southeast European History at the University of Giessen from 2013 to 2020 and is Professor (Chair for Eastern and South Eastern European history) with Leipzig University since 2020. He focuses on Eastern European urban history, discourses of remembrance, transconfessionality and entanglements in sport, technics and science between Eastern and Western Europe. His publications include „Vom Polocker Venedig.“ Kollektives Handeln sozialer Gruppen in einer Stadt zwischen Ost- und Mitteleuropa (2005, Open Access, Belarusian translation: "Pra Polackuju Venecyju". Kalektyŭnyja dzejanni sacyjal'nych hrup horada pamiž Uschodnjaj i Cėntral'naj Eŭropai (Sjarėdnjavečča, ranni Novy Čas, XIX st.- da 1914 h.) 2020), co-editing Sport zwischen Ost und West (with Arié Malz and Stefan Wiederkehr, 2007); Lithuania and Ruthenia. Studies of a Transcultural Communication Zone (with David Frick and Stefan Wiederkehr, 2007, Open Access); Kooperation trotz Konfrontation.
Wissenschaft und Technik im Kalten Krieg. Osteuropa 10 (2009, with Klaus Gestwa et al.); Religiöse Erinnerungsorte in Ostmitteleuropa. Konstitution und Konkurrenz im nationen- und epochenübergreifenden Zugriff (with Joachim Bahlcke and Thomas Wünsch, 2013), containing essays on 101 lieux de mémoire; Das Osmanische Europa. Methoden und Perspektiven zur Frühneuzeitforschung zu Südosteuropa (with Andreas Helmedach, Markus Koller and Konrad Petrovszky, 2014). His latest monograph: Götter der Nationen. Religiöse Erinnerungsfiguren in Serbien, Bulgarien und Makedonien bis 1944 (2014, English translation: Sacralizing the Nation through Remembrance of Medieval Religious Figures in Serbia, Bulgaria and Macedonia Brill 2022). From 2017 to 2023 he is the Chairperson of the priority program Transottomanica: Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics (SPP 1981), financed by the German Research Foundation with up to 30 projects (www.transottomanica.de). Co-edited: Transottomanica – Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Perspektiven und Forschungsstand (with Stephan Conermann and Albrecht Fuess, 2019). [Open Access: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/book/10.14220/9783737008860].