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Professor Andreas Eckert
Director
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 04
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 09
Andreas.eckert(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
His curriculum vitae and publications can be downloaded as a PDF document.
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Professor Jürgen Kocka
Permanent Fellow
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 05
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
Juergen.kocka(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
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Dr. Felicitas Hentschke
Program Supervisor
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 06
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
felicitas.hentschke(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
received her doctorate from the postgraduate program “Democracy in the USA” at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (Free University Berlin) on the subject of American plans for the democratization of Japan and Germany after the Second World War. She then worked as a research assistant at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum). As project head of the interdisciplinary research group “Paths to Knowledge: Transregional Studies” at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study), she was instrumental in preparing the groundwork for IGK. In terms of scholarly work, she is presently looking into the lives of workers in the mining industry in the French province of Lorraine.
Publications
Demokratisierung als Ziel der amerikanischen Besatzungspolitik in Deutschland und Japan, 1943–1947. Münster: Lit 2001. (Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas 16).
Hentschke, Felicitas & Braig, Marianne „Die Zukunft der Area Studies in Deutschland“. In: Afrika Spectrum 40.3 (2005), 547–558.
[Tagungsbericht] „Area Studies Revisited. Transregional Studies in Germany“. In: H-Soz-u-Kult Februar 2009.
(http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=2625)
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Dr. Jürgen Schmidt
Research Associate
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 19
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
juergen.schmidt(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
studied history, political science and German studies in Heidelberg, Innsbruck and Berlin (Free University). He received his doctorate for a work on the relationship between the working and middle classes in Imperial Germany, using the Prussian city of Erfurt as his case-study. Before he took up his work as a research assistant at the International Research Center, he worked at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, at the Ruhr University in Bochum, at the archive of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in a variety of research projects.
Since being at the Research Center, Jürgen Schmidt has been finishing up a book on the early history of the labor movement in the nineteenth century, the subject now being newly positioned and accented as well as analyzed from fresh angles. This is done by virtue of a three-pronged inquiry: How did the workers movement impact its members’ understanding of work? To what degree can we interpret the early labor movement as a generational phenomenon and explain it by means of (work) experiences that were life-phase specific? In what ways is it possible, useful, and even necessary – and this in opposition to hitherto dominant views of the matter – to understand the emerging labor movement of a country (for instance Germany) as being part of and a moment in transnational processes?
Publications
Begrenzte Spielräume. Eine Beziehungsgeschichte von Arbeiterschaft und Bürgertum am Beispiel Erfurts, 1870–1914. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005.
Zivilgesellschaft. Bürgerschaftliches Engagement von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Texte und Dokumente. Reinbek: Rowohlt 2007.
„Labor Movements / Labor Unions“. In: Anheier, Helmut & Toepler, Stephan. International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer 2009.
„The Early German Labour Movement as Representative of Civil Society. Participation, Emancipation and Learning Democracy in 19th Century Germany, 1848 – 1880“. In: Eliasson, Sven. Building Civil Society and Democracy in New Europe. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008, 293–315.
„‚Die Arbeitsleute sind im allgemeinen gesünder […] als die Herrschaften‘. Krankheitserfahrungen und Männlichkeit in Arbeiterautobiographien, 1870–1914“. In: Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte 24 (2005), 105–127.
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Dr. Julia Tischler
Research Associate
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 66110
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
julia.tischer(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
completed her doctorate in 2011 at the University of Cologne, on the Kariba Dam in the Central African Federation. The Kariba Dam is a large construction project located on the borders of what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe. Julia Tischler used the dam as the basis for a case study to investigate various development and state-building concepts and policies during the late colonial period. She has travelled to the UK, Zambia and Malawi to undertake archival research and conduct interviews with people who lived through the corresponding period.
Before joining the research staff at the IGK in March 2012, Julia Tischler led the Junior Research Group “Klima Welten” at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) at the University of Bielefeld, and helped coordinate the Bielefeld Cluster of Excellence application in sociology and history.
At re:work, Julia Tischler is currently working on a new project on the relationships between agrarian work and agricultural education in South Africa in the twentieth century. How did the concepts and praxis surrounding work change with the expansion of formal agricultural education? On the one hand her focus is on the relationship between the increasing influence of science and agricultural work during the South African 'Green Revolution' as well as the increasingly clear divide between subsistence-based and commercial agricultural sectors. On the other hand she also focuses on the educational work undertaken by teachers, advisers and agricultural experts. Inter-relational historical aspects are particularly interesting in this context, as they lead agricultural educational exchanges between international agricultural experts and institutions, such as those found in the US, to become widespread. The primary aim of the study is to investigate whether the South African case study provides theoretical insights about the importance of agricultural knowledge and work in settler colonialism that could also be applied more generally.
Literature
Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation. The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation – to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies.
“Negotiating Development: The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation”. In: Peter Bloom, Takyiwaa Manuh & Stephan Miescher (eds). Revisiting Modernization in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (to be published in 2012).
“Resisting modernisation? Two African responses to the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation”. In: Angelika Epple, Olaf Kaltmeier & Ulrike Lindner (eds). Reflecting on concepts of coloniality and postcoloniality. Comparativ 21/
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Dr. des. Nitin Varma
Research Associate
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 18
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
nitin.varma(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
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Maïté Kersaint
Fellow Services
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 08
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
maite.kersaint(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
studied business administration at the European School of Business Reutlingen and the Reims Management School as well as international relations at King’s Colleg London. She is presently writing her doctoral dissertation on the subject of public diplomacy. At the International Research Center she is in charge of the Fellows’ support services.
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Jutta Hägele
Secretary’s Office
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 00
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
jutta.haegele(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
is a certified German translator of English and French. The first stop on her professional translator career was with a medium-sized automotive supplier that had numerous foreign assignments in France and North America. Then came stints as board-of-directors secretary in the business and banking sectors in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main. She is the secretary for the International Research Center.
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Ming-Han Lee
IT Service Manager
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 17
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
ming-han.lee(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
received his B.A. in foreign literature at National Taiwan University in Taipei before moving to Berlin to complete his M.A. in education and computer science at Humboldt University. He worked as Web developer, IT consultant, and research assistant before joining the re:work team.
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Constanze Röderstein
Financial Manager
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 03
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
constanze.roederstein(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
is a hotel management expert and personnel-management assistant. She has worked as a business-management employee in large hotels and in film production, and as a board-of-directors secretary. She also served as honorary judge for the industrial tribunal in Frankfurt am Main. At the International Research Center she is responsible for budgeting and personnel.
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Sebastian Marggraff
Student Assistant
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 26
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
sebastian.marggraff(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
is studying regional studies (Asia and Africa), with the emphasis on African History, at the Humboldt University Berlin. He is presently completing his bachelor's thesis on the subject Europe in Africa: The Representation of European Civilization in African Intellectual Thought, 1880-1920.
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Maruan Mourad
Student Assistant
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 17
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
is studying regional studies (Asia and Africa), with the emphasis on Japan, at the Humboldt University Berlin.
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Anton Nikolotov
Student Assistant
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 26
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
anton.nikolotov(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
studies Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin with the focus on critical migration research in Russia.
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Moritz Reiter
Student Assistant
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 17
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
moritz.reiter(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
is currently studying History with a focus on the 19th and 20th century as well as Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin.
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Elisabeth Schulz
Student Assistant
Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 26
Telefax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
is studying regional sciences (Asia/Africa) with an emphasis on Japan at Humboldt-University in Berlin. She spent the 2010/11 academic year in Japan learning the language. With regards to content, her studies focus on Japan's modern society, especially the individual's role in relation to the group.
Former Staff
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Tom Vogelgesang
Student Assisant (IT Services)
Tom.Vogelgesang(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
is studying regional studies (Asia and Africa), with the emphasis on Japan, at the Humboldt University Berlin.
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Norman Leymann
Student Assistant (IT Services)
norman.leymann(at)hu-berlin.de
is studying regional studies (Asia and Africa) and gender studies at the Humboldt University Berlin. he is presently completing his bachelor's thesis on the subject The First Students from Africa and Asia at the Humboldt University.
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Rabea Rittgerodt
Student Assistant
rabea.rittgerodt(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
is studying History with a focus on the 19th and 20th century at Freie Universität Berlin. She currently completes her master thesis entitled The Monarch within the Family. A Dynastic Comparison of Wilhelm II and Edward VII.
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Rafaela Kuchenmeister
Student Assistant
rafaela.kuchenmeister(at)gmx.de
is studying American studies and History at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is presently completing her bachelor's thesis on the subject: The Theme of Spirituality in the Novel "So Far from God: A Novel" and its Consequences for the Action.
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Stephanie Lämmert
Student Assistant
stephanie.laemmert(at)yahoo.de
is studying African studies and history at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is presently finishing her master’s thesis on The Revolution on Zanzibar, 1964.
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Andreas Wagner
Student Assistant for Computer Services
studied regional studies (Asia and Africa) at the Humboldt University Berlin and completed his bachelor’s thesis on the subject Internal Migration and Its Effects on the Urbanization Process in Lagos, Nigeria.
He is currently doing a master's in 'POLIS' European Urban Cultures involving four European Universities. He is specialising in urban culture and forms of urban work.