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Nineteenth-Century Transnational History

We research and teach modern history with a focus on the long 19th century. We focus on transnational, (post-)colonial and global perspectives. The thematic focus of our work is on the history of the Anthropocene, family and childhood, gender and sexuality, port cities, empires and migration.

News

Sandra Maß writes with Xenia von Tippelskirch in the journal L'Homme (Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft) in memoriam Regina Schulte (1949-2024).

The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding the project Demokratie und Geschlecht: Konflikte um die Ordnung der deutschen Gesellschaft im 20. Jahrhundert (Democracy and Gender: Conflicts over the Order of German Society in the 20th Century), which was jointly applied for by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München, the WWU Münster and the RUB from 2022 to 2025.

Lasse Heerten writes in the FAZ of 18.08.2021 on the current debate about the Holocaust and (post-)colonialism: Biafra zum Beispiel.

The DFG is funding the project Global Family History: The Kaundinyas between Protestant Mission and European Colonialism, 1850-1945 from 2020 to 2022.

The VolkswagenStiftung is funding the project Clio Contaminated? Historical Science in the Anthropocene from 2021 to 2022.

Recent Publications

Lasse Heerten: An Imperial Adventus into a City of Warehouses: History, Modernity, and Urbanity in the Symbolic and Material Construction of Hamburg’s Free Port, in: Central European History 57 (2024), Heft 3, S. 311-337.

Sandra Maß: Zukünftige Vergangenheiten. Geschichte schreiben im Anthropozän, Göttingen 2024.

Anelia Kasabova, Sandra Maß: Kinder in Heimen. Themenheft von L'Homme, in: Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 34 (2023), Heft 1.

Jens Elberfeld, Kristoffer Klammer, Sandra Maß, Benno Nietzel (Hgg.): Erträumte Geschichte(n). Zur Historizität von Träumen, Visionen und Utopien, Frankfurt/M. 2022.

Lasse Heerten: Biafras of the Mind. French Postcolonial Humanitarianism in Global Conceptual History, in: The American Historical Review 126 (2021), Heft 4, S. 1448-1484.

Contact

Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Faculty of History
Transnationale Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts
GA 6/51
Universitätsstr. 150
D-44801 Bochum
E-Mail: transhistory@rub.de

Secretary

Heike von Hagen
Tel.: 0234 32-24664
GA 4/139
Please check the office hours here.

Office hours

The office hours with Prof. Dr. Sandra Maß take place in presence (room GA 6/51).

Please make an appointment via DFN.

If you need more than 10 minutes, please book a double slot.

Office hours with Dr. Lasse Heerten by appointment via E-Mail.