New Deputy Director of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe

Moritz Florin will be taking over as Deputy Director of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe from April 2025, and as the acting head of the new office in Tbilisi.

He is a historian of Eastern Europe with a focus on the history of the Russian-Soviet imperial space. As head of the office in Tbilisi, he follows in the footsteps of Andreas Hilger and will continue the already established focus on global history. He is also planning his own research on the South Caucasus and Central Asia as regions of transcontinental border-making and interaction.