CV & Publications

Curriculum vitae

• Since June 2024, Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University.
• Before the current appointment, Dr. Marku was a Researcher in History at the Institute of History at the Academy of Sciences of Albania.
• From September 2022 to April 2023, Dr. Marku was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Cold War Studies at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., USA.
• From May 2021 to September 2022 Dr. Marku has been appointed Lecturer in History at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
• Between September 2018 and June 2021, Dr. Marku was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at Xiamen University, China.
• Dr. Marku obtained his PhD in History in November 2017 at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Publications

Main Peer-reviewed Articles

• 2023: Ylber Marku, “Preparing for an Alliance: China’s Socialist Model and Albania’s Economic Design in the early Cold War”, European Review of History, Vol.30, No.3, (2023): 410-432. Research Article. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2023.2188581
• 2023: Ylber Marku, “Socialism in Action: A Comparative Analysis of the Albanian Ideological and Cultural Revolution with Stalin’s Soviet Union and Mao’s China”, Art Studies, Nr. 21 (2023): 39-87. Research Article. https://albanica.al/index.php/studime_arti/index
• 2022: Ylber Marku, “Shifting Alliances: Albania in the Early Cold War”, Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 24, No.3, (Fall 2022): 80-115. Research Article. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_01074
• 2022: Ylber Marku, “Albania, China, and the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict of 1979”, China & Asia, Vol.4, No.1 (2022): 147-171. doi:10.1163/2589465X 04010006. Research Note. https://brill.com/view/journals/cahs/4/1/article-p147_006.xml?ebody=previewpdf-63165
• 2021: Ylber Marku, “Stories from the International Communist Movement: the Chinese front in Europe and the limits of the anti-revisionist struggle”, Cold War History, Vol. 21, no. 2, (2021): 139 157. Research Article. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14682745.2020.1803840?journalCode=fcwh20
• 2020: Ylber Marku, “Communist Relations in Crisis: The End of the Soviet-Albanian Relations, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-61”, The International History Review, Vol. 42, no. 4, (2020): 813-832. Research Article. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2019.1620825?journalCode=rinh20
• 2017: Ylber Marku, “China and Albania: The Cultural Revolution and Cold War Relations”, Cold War History, Vol. 17, no. 4, (2017): 367–383. Research Article. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682745.2017.1307179

Teaching

• Lecturer in History, Zhejiang University, China
• [01/09/2021 – 08/2022]
• Developing and delivering the undergraduate course Modern European History; postgraduate courses History of Western Political and Philosophical Thought, and Introduction to Masterpieces of Western Historical Theory and Thought.
• Medium of teaching: English and Chinese.
• Instructor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong
• [01/09/2016 – 30/01/2017]
• Designed and taught HIST 4399B-1 Cold War History. Lecture and tutorial: responsible for course design and delivery. Lingnan University, Hong Kong. 
• Medium of teaching: English.
• Instructor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
• [01/09/2015 – 31/01/2016]
• CCC8004 World History & Civilizations. Responsible for the tutorial and part of the student examination. 
• Medium of teaching: English.
• Instructor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
• [01/03/2015 – 15/06/2015]
• CCC8004 World History & Civilizations. Responsible for the tutorial and part of the student examination. 
• Medium of teaching: English.

Funding

• [01/06/2024 – 31/05/2026] Horizon Europe (Marie Curie Skldodowska Action - MSCA). Grant reference: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01. Proposal Number: 101106810. Grant Amount: 173,000 euro.
• [01/09/2014 – 31/08/2017] Hong Kong Fellowship PhD Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grant Council. Grant Number: PF - 1310175. Grant Amount: 720,000 HKD.

Languages

European languages: Albanian (mother tongue), English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Greek. Asian languages: Chinese.