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Armin Selbitschka (December 5, 1975 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm) is a German Sinologist and archaeologist. He specializes in Chinese archeology and ancient Chinese history and he is particularly interested in social history and transcultural movement processes dating from the Shang Dynasty (approximately c. 1600 - 1046 B.C.E. ) until through the Yuan Dynasty (1279 -1368). [1]
After serving an apprenticeship as an electronic engineer (specializing in telecommunication) with Siemens in Munich (1992 to 1996) and alternative civilian service with Bavarian Red Cross (Bayerisches Rotes Kreuz) between 1996 to and 1997, Armin Selbitschka attended the upper vocational school (Bavaria) in Scheyern (1997 to 1999), in order to acquire his university entrance qualification ( Abitur).
Beginning in 1999, he studied Sinology, Chinese art and archaeology, European pre- and early history ( archaeology) as well as Japanology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2005, he graduated with earning a Magister Atrium degree in Sinology. Between 2001 and 2002, he spent a semester at Sichuan University and took part in an archaeological teaching excavation in Farchant near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2002.
In 2008, Armin Selbitschka received a PhD in Sinology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was supported by a scholarship of the Research Training Group ( Graduiertenkolleg ) “Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures” that was funded by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG). His doctoral thesis was supervised by Thomas O. Höllmann, Hans van Ess, and Amei Lang.
Between 2008 and 2015, Armin Selbitschka was a fixed-term assistant professor (in the position of “Akademischer Rat auf Zeit”) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) / visiting scholar at Stanford University (2012 to 2014). In the fall of 2015, he became Assistant Professor of Ancient Chinese History and Global Network Professor at New York University (NYU) campus in Shanghai and was simultaneously affiliated with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW). In 2018, Armin Selbitschka was appointed Professor (Chair) of Ancient Chinese History and Archaeology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Armin Selbitschka has been a scout in the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Henriette Herz scouting program since the end of 2021. He also received several short-term fellowships, for research stays at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ( CASS) in Beijing, as well as third-party funding for a research collaboration with members of the University of Cambridge.
Armin Selbitschka is a board member of the Society for the Study of Early China and the Early Medieval China Group. He is also on the editorial board of the book series Marco Polo: Studies for Global Europe-Asia Connections that is, published at Ca’ Foscari in Venice.
He has published numerous articles (peer review) in internationally highly regarded journals such as World Archeology, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Early China, Early Medieval China, Asia Major, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ( Östasiatiska museet), Asian Perspectives and Oriens Extremus. His work has also appeared in some German popular science outlets such as Antike Welt and a special volume of Damals.