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Main Focus
Social, Political and Cultural History of Economics with a Focus on German, Polish and European History from the 19th to the 21st Century
- History of Capitalism and its Criticism
- History of Marxism, Communism and Real Socialism
- History of Democratic Opposition in East Central Europe
- History of (Co-)Transformation of East Central and Western Europe
- History of Emotions, especially Economic and Legal Concepts of "Well-Being"
- History of Civil Society Concepts and Civil Movements
- Theories and Methods of Transnational Research
Projects
- The Capital of Capitalism. A Global and Emotional History of the homo oeconomicus since 1840 to 1990
- Feeling Political. Emotions and Institutions since 1789
Curriculum Vitae
- Dr. phil. in Modern History, 2012, Freie Universität Berlin
- M.A. in Modern History, 2006, Freie Universität Berlin
- Studies in Modern History, Law and Political Science, 1999-2005, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Florence
Academic Positions
- Since 2014 Researcher, Research Center „History of Emotions“, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- 2012-2013 Associated Researcher, International Collegium for the Humanities “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2011 Guest Researcher, Research Group “Changing Concepts of the Political in the 20th Century”, Center for Contemporary History Potsdam
- 2006-2010 Guest Researcher, Research Group “Civil Society, Citizenship, and Political Mobilization in Europe”, Berlin Social Science Center
- 2006-2009 Pre-doctoral Researcher, Berlin School for Comparative European History, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2003-2005 Scientific Coordinator of the "European Civil Society Network" funded in the 5th Framework Program of the European Union, Research Group “Civil Society: Historical and Social Scientific Perspectives”, Berlin Social Science Center
Academic Awards
- 2012 Prize of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Germany and the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Hedwig Hintze Prize of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Free University Berlin
- 2006 Książ Prize of the Foundation for German-Polish Collaboration
- 2006 Herbert Wehner Prize of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Fellowships, Research Grants and Research Stays abroad
- 2014 Post-doc-Fellowship granted by the Max Planck Society
- 2010 PhD Scholarship granted by the Fazit Foundation
- 2007 Scholarship for a research stay at the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford granted by the German Academic Exchange Service
- 2006 Gerald D. Feldman-Fellowship for three research stays at the German Historical Institutes in Warsaw, Paris and London granted by the Max Weber Foundation
- 2006 Scholarship for a research stay in Warsaw and Wrocław granted by the German Historical Institute Warsaw
- 2006 PhD Scholarship granted by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
- 2005 Predoc Scholarship granted by the Berlin Social Science Center
- 2013, 2011, 2010 und 2006 Research grants of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Fazit Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Marga and Kurt Möllgaard Foundation
Research Organisation and Transfer
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2018 Capitalist Cold. Debating and Depicting Callousness in Europe and America (International Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, with Kerstin Maria Pahl)
- 2017 New Perspectives in the History of Emotions (Internal Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, with Stephen Cummins und Daphne Rozenblatt)
- 2010 Human Rights Movements in East-Central Europe (International Conference at the German Historical Institute Warsaw in cooperation with the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, with Robert Brier)
- 2005 Civil Society in Europe (Final Conference of the European Civil Society Network at the Berlin Social Science Center, with Arnd Bauerkämper und Jürgen Kocka)
- 2004 Markets and Civil Society in Europe (International Conference at the Analistas Socio-Políticos Research Center Madrid, with Victor Pérez-Díaz)
- 2004 The Future of the European Polity (International Conference at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster London, with John Keane)
Memberships and Service to the Profession
- Deputy Ombudsperson for the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- German Historical Association
Reviews
- National Science Centre Poland
- Berghahn Books, Bloomsbury Academic
- History of the Human Sciences, Contributions to the History of Concepts, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, East Central Europe
Publications
1. Books
- Feeling Political. Emotions and Institutions since 1789, London: Palgrave Macmillen 2022 (with Ute Frevert et. al.).
- Rote Bürger. Eine Milieu- und Beziehungsgeschichte linker Dissidenz in Polen, Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Vol. 209, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013.
- Intellektuelle in der Opposition. Diskurse zur Zivilgesellschaft in der Volksrepublik Polen, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2007.
2. Edited Books
- Capitalist Cold. On Callousness and Other Economic Emotions in Europe and the United States, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2023, with Kerstin Maria Pahl).
- Vergleichen, Verflechten, Verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011 (with Joachim C. Häberlen and Christiane Reinecke).
3. Articles
- Kälte, Kritik, Kapitalismus. Zur Geschichte eines ambivalenten Verhältnisses (in preparation).
- Eigentum verpflichtet. Globale Perspektiven auf Unternehmen, Verantwortung und Gefühle (in preparation).
- Varieties of Patriotism. Debates on Post-National Identities in 20th Century Europe (in preparation).
- Emotionsmanagement. Genese, Geschichte, Gefahren, in: Projektmanagement Aktuell, Volume 6, 2020, p. 7-9.
- Der homo emoticus hat kein Geschlecht. Zur Geschichte der Gefühlswahrnehmung, in: FAMA. Feministisch-theologische Zeitschrift, Volume 3, 2019, p. 4-5.
- „Abwanderung und Widerspruch“. Zur Aktualität eines analytischen Konzepts des 20. für das 21. Jahrhundert, in: Administory. Journal for the History of Public Administration/ Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsgeschichte, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2018, p. 247-254.
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Inspiracja czy irytacja? Społeczeństwo obywatelskie w Polsce i Europie (Inspiration oder Irritation? Zivilgesellschaft in Polen und Europa), in: Kultura Liberalna 86, Nr. 36, August 2010.
- Premises and Paradoxes in the Development of the Civil Society Concept in Poland, in: Agnes Arndt/ Dariusz Gawin, Discourses on Civil Society in Poland, WZB Discussion Paper, Nr. SP IV 2008-402, Berlin 2008, p. 1-29.
4. Book Chapters
- Politik mit Performanz. Konturen und Konjunkturen von Bürgerlichkeit im staatssozialistischen Polen, in: Ingo Loose/ Christian Rau/ Michael Schwartz (Eds.), Bürgerlichkeit in Diktaturen, Berlin: Metropol (forthcoming 2023).
- Cold Blood – Hot Topic: Promises and Problems of an Emotional History of Capitalism, in: Agnes Arndt/ Kerstin Maria Pahl (Eds.), Capitalist Cold. On Callousness and Other Economic Emotions in Europe and the United States, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2023).
- Capitalist Cold. The History of Economy meets the History of Emotions (mit Kerstin Maria Pahl), in: Agnes Arndt/ Kerstin Maria Pahl (Eds.), Capitalist Cold. On Callousness and Other Economic Emotions in Europe and the United States, London: Routledge (forthcoming 2023).
- Zivilgesellschaft als Treiber der Ko-Transformation? Ein intellektuelles Konzept und seine politischen Implikationen, in: Markus Böick/ Constantin Goschler/ Ralph Jessen (Eds.), Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit, Berlin: Ch. Links 2022 (in press).
- Effizienz und Emotion. Deutungsmuster und Dynamiken weiblicher Gefühlsarbeit in Familienunternehmen, in: Kai Bosecker (Eds.), Tochter, Gattin, Unternehmerin. Geschichten des Wandels von Frauenrollen und -funktionen in Familienunternehmen vom 16. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Böhlau 2022 (in press).
- Efficiency and Emotion. Interpretive Patterns and Dynamics around Women’s Emotional Labour in Family Businesses, in: Kai Bosecker (Eds.), Tochter, Gattin, Unternehmerin. Geschichten des Wandels von Frauenrollen und -funktionen in Familienunternehmen vom 16. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Böhlau 2022 (in press).
- Feeling Political Through Law. The Emergence of an International Criminal Jurisdiction, 1899-2019, in: Ute Frevert et. al., Feeling Political. Emotions and Institutions since 1789, London: Palgrave Macmillen 2022, p. 91-119.
- Traders and Entrepreneurs. Encountering Trust in Business Relations, in: Benno Gammerl/ Philipp Nielsen/ Margrit Pernau (Eds.), Encounters with Emotions. Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity, New York: Berghahn 2019, p. 110-132.
- Renaissance or Reconstruction? Intellectual transfer of civil society discourses between Eastern and Western Europe, in: Friederike Kind-Kovács/ Jessie Labov (Hrsg.), From Samizdat to Tamizdat: Transnational Media During and After Socialism, 2nd ed., New York: Berghahn 2015, p. 156-171.
- Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis – Chancen, Risiken und Grenzen, (mit Joachim C. Häberlen/ Christiane Reinecke), in: Agnes Arndt/ Joachim C. Häberlen/ Christiane Reinecke (Eds.), Vergleichen, Verflechten, Verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011, p. 11-30.
- Der Bedeutungsverlust des Marxismus in transnationaler Perspektive. “Histoire Croisée” als Ansatz und Anspruch an eine Beziehungsgeschichte West- und Ostmitteleuropas, in: Agnes Arndt/ Joachim C. Häberlen/ Christiane Reinecke (Eds.), Vergleichen, Verflechten, Verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011, p. 89-114.
5. Media and Online Contributions
- Bildung bedeutet, sich ein Bild von der Welt zu machen, in: Nachgefragt! Wissenschaftsjahr 2022 (in preparation).
- Discourses on Civil Society in Poland, WZB Discussion Paper, Nr. SP IV 2008-402, Berlin 2008 (mit Dariusz Gawin).
- Semantisches Missverständnis. Der Begriff „Zivilgesellschaft“ spielte in Polen keine zentrale Rolle, in: WZB Mitteilungen, Nr. 118, Berlin 2007, p. 11-13.