Mathias Rodorff

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Research Manager

Mathias Rodorff is the Research Manager of the Gorsebrook Research Institute. Mathias is currently a PhD-Candidate at the America Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, with a joint supervision at Dalhousie University. His dissertation examines how transatlantic processes, the American Civil War and the Canadian Confederation, interacted with local spaces and how public sphere was created in Great Britain and Canada during the 1850s-1870s. He received a joint master’s degree from the University of Freiburg and the University of Basel, in modern, social and economic history, and media studies, funded by the European Campus Program (EUCOR). Since January 2021 he also is the Managing Editor of the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society.