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Assistant Professor and Student Advisor Dr. Stefan Lüder

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Dr. Stefan Lueder is the Assistant Professor in the Department of History.  Dr. Lueder’s multidisciplinary expertise bridges regional and global history, informed by political sciences and sociology, as well as media and cultural studies, positioning him to advance innovative scholarship on South Asia’s histories. Dr. Lueder earned his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2024, with the doctoral thesis Staatsbildung und Legitimation im Himalaya (“State Formation and Legitimation in the Himalayas”), which was published Open Access by SpringerNature in 2024. His work on 19th-century Gorkha elite discourses and practices of legitimization reveals the Himalayan region’s understudied regional and global entanglements, challenging historiographical narratives of isolation. This research synergizes with SAI’s focus on transcultural dynamics in South Asia.


Before joining SAI, Stefan honed interdisciplinary coordination skills as a project lead and communications specialist at Marburg and Giessen universities, demonstrating the capacity to bridge academic and public engagement. Dr. Lueder will expand investigations into Himalayan and South Asian intellectual history while teaching the proseminar “Die unsichtbaren Fäden der Macht - Legitimation in der Geschichte Südasiens” (“The Invisible Threads of Power: Legitimation in South Asian History”). His appointment strengthens SAI’s commitment to globally inflected regional studies.

Dr. Stefan Lüder

Publications

  • Lueder, S. (2024). Staatsbildung und Legitimation im Himalaya: Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte des Gorkhā-Staates im überlangen 19. Jahrhundert. Springer VS.
  • Lueder, S. (2023). Review of Hindu Kingship Rituals: Power Relation and Historical Revolution by Nawaraj Chaulagain. HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 42(1), 169-172. 

    https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.8857

  • Lueder, S. (2023). Rezension zu: Bajracharya, Manik (Hrsg.): Slavery and Unfree Labour in Nepal. Documents from the 18th to Early 20th Century. Heidelberg 2022, In: H-Soz-Kult, 06.06.2023, 

    http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-133408

  • Lueder, S. (2021). Of Education, Humanism and Civilizational Progress: An Explorative Study of Jaya Prithvi Bahadur Singh’s Life and Work from the Perspective of ‘Global Intellectual History’. HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 40(2), 59-78. 

    https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2021.6591

  • Lueder, S. (2021). »Globaler Süden« in der Wissenschaft‘, Forum Wissenschaft 38 (3), 4 –7. Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler e.V. (BdWi). 

    https://www.bdwi.de/forum/archiv/themen/hopo/11020963.html

  • Lueder, S. (2020). Marketing und Storytelling mit Videos: Geschichten erzählen im digitalen Zeitalter. WR56 Magazin. 

    https://wr56.de/essay-video

  • Lueder, S. (2019). Über Podcasts: Die Zukunft des Audiomarketings. WR56 Magazin. 

    https://wr56.de/essay-podcast

  • Lueder, S. (2013). Grenzen wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis – Wissensproduktion und Wissensdiskurse um Ethnizität in Nepal. Südasien – Chronik / South Asia – Chronicle 3, 242-270. Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. 

    https://doi.org/10.18452/8466

Contact Information

Department of History of South Asia
South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg
Voßstraße 2, Building 4130
D-69115 Heidelberg 

Room:  130.01.23
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 - 54 15 252
E-mail: stefan.lueder@sai.uni-heidelberg.de 

Consultation hours: by appointment via e-mail 

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