Dietmar Müller is research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and guest researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies Halle. In 2004 he received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin and was awarded the dissertation prize of the Southeast Europe Association for his work. In 2005 he was a guest researcher at the GWZO and from 2005-2009 research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig. In 2019 he habilitated at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. His research focuses on the economic history of rural areas, land ownership and nation in Eastern Europe, culture of memory and politics of history, governance and statehood in Eastern Central and Southeastern Europe, the constitutional and conceptual history of Romania and the history of international law in Eastern Central Europe. He is editor of the handbook “Managing the Rural” and member of the board of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH). He teaches with the Venia Legendi for Comparative Cultural and Social History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Leipzig University.