Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students

Professor Jonathan Osmond

Jonathan Osmond studied history and modern languages at Oxford, Hamburg and Munich. His first university lecturing post in history was at Leicester University. In 1993 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin and visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. The following year he took up the Chair of Modern European History at Cardiff and was Head of the Cardiff School of History and Archaeology from 1996 to 2006. From 2004 to 2006 he was chair of the Heads of Schools meeting.

Professor Osmond’s research and publications are in the area of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history and art history, with special emphasis on rural society and politics, the German Democratic Republic, and modern German painting. Over the last thirty years his teaching has been in these areas, in Spanish history, and more widely in European history.

During 2006-07 Professor Osmond was on research leave, funded by a British Academy Research Grant and a Humboldt Fellowship at Potsdam University. He has also recently been involved in CLIOHRES, an international history network of excellence funded by the European Commission. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Osmond became Cardiff University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students on 1 August 2007.