Prof. Dr. Jacob Eder is a contemporary historian and university teacher. Since 2019, he has been Professor of History at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, a state-approved university for music and the humanities in Berlin. In addition to musical theory and practice, the program focuses on humanities subjects. The aim is to train musically excellent, curious and reflective students.

Eder studied History and American Studies in Munich, Leeds and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He earned an MA and a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and was subsequently a research assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He has received numerous scholarships and fellowships, including a Mellon Foundation fellowship at George Washington University, a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, several Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowships at New York University and most recently a visiting professor at the International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University. He has received several international awards for his research and teaching, including the university-wide Friedrich Schiller University Teaching Prize, the Vienna Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize and the Marko Feingold Prize from the University of Salzburg.

Eder’s research focuses on transatlantic relations, Holocaust remembrance, anti-Semitism and humanitarianism.