Tobias Hof

Tobias Hof is Privatdozent for Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and was the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in the academic year 2022/2023. He joined the Department of Germanic Languages & Literature and the Department of History at the University of Toronto as the DAAD Associate Guest Professor in the fall of 2024.

His research focuses on the history of terrorism and counterterrorism as well as the history of violence, fascism, and humanitarianism. He is the author of Staat und Terrorismus in Italien 1969-1982 (Oldenbourg, 2011), Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender (University of Toronto Press, 2021) and Geschichte des Terrorismus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (UTB, 2022) as well as many journal articles and book chapters on his research interests. He also contributes to the online journal Fair Observer.

Tobias Hof has taught at the University of Munich, the Washington University in St. Louis and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For several years, he was a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. He has held grants and fellowships from the DAAD, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Max Weber Foundation. His current projects focus on the global emergency aid for Ethiopia in the 1970s/80s, the perception and reception of popular fantasy and science fiction novels as well as films within the far-right milieu, and on the global history of right-wing terrorism.