Academic Background
Brockmeier
received his degrees in Psychology, Philosophy, and
Linguistics/ Literary Theory from the Free University
Berlin where he also was awarded his Habilitation and took
on his first appointment as Assistant Professor of
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Since then, he has
held teaching and research appointments at institutions of
higher education in Austria, Brazil, Canada, England,
Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the USA.
Before his present appointment at the University of
Manitoba in 2005, he served, among others, as a Visiting
Professor in the Graduate Faculty of the New School (The
New School for Social Research), New York (2002-2005), and
in the Department of Human Development and Applied
Psychology at the University of Toronto (1995-2002). From
1992 until 1996, as a Senior Visiting Member of Linacre
College, Oxford, he was teaching at the Philosophy Centre
of Oxford University.
Brockmeier has been a Fellow at The Centre for Applied
Cognitive Sciences at the University of Toronto; The
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in
Vienna; The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities
of the University of Massachusetts Amherst; The Center for
Research on Culture, Development, and Education of New York
University; The Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria
University/University of Toronto; and Collegium Budapest,
the Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest, Hungary,
sponsored by seven West European countries. He also was a
Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow with the European
Union's Research Program "Memory/ Memoir,” based in the UK.
Since 2004, he has served as a Graduate Faculty Member in
the University of Milan Bicocca’s School of Graduate
Studies in the Human Sciences (Scuola di Dottorato in
Scienze Umane).
Among his distinguished awards is the John G. Diefenbaker
Award for Humanities and the Social Sciences from the
Canada Council for the Arts. In 1992, he was elected to a
lifetime appointment as Visiting Senior Member of Linacre
College, Oxford; and in 2007, he was appointed as Honorary
Professor at the University of Innsbruck.