Prof. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh


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Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences

Professorship for Historical Urban and Spatial Research

After prior appointment by email at brueckweh@europa-uni.de.

- German, British and European history in transnational contexts in the long 20th century
- History of housing and home ownership
- History of transformations before, during and after 1989 (especially East Germany)
- History of knowledge, especially the history of social sciences and social science data as sources for contemporary history
- History of violence
- Public history, citizen science and digital historiography

since 10.2023
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Professor of Historical Urban and Spatial Research
Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research in Erkner near Berlin
Head of the research focus "Contemporary History and Archives"

03.2021 - 09.2023
Berlin University of Applied Sciences BHT
(until 30.9.21 old name: Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin)
Professor of Economic and Social History

10.2018 - 03.2021
University of Erfurt, Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Science Studies
Fellow

04.2016 - 03.2020
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Project leader: Leibniz project "The long history of the 'Wende'. Lifeworld and System Change in East Germany before, during and after 1989"; 1 October 2018 to 31 March 2020 on leave for the Erfurt Fellowship; associated since 1 April 2020

04.2015 - 03.2016
University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of History
Professorship for Modern and Contemporary History

11.2013 - 03.2015
BMBF- Project Network "Good Labour" after the Boom. Pilot project for the longitudinal analysis of sociological labour case studies with new e-Humanities tools (University of Trier, Head: Lutz Raphael)
Research assistant (summer semester 2014 on leave)

04.2014 - 10.2014
University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of History
Professorship for Modern and Contemporary History

07.2013
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Habilitation, authorisation to teach Modern and Contemporary History

02. - 11.2013
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Zeitgeschichte
Research Fellow of the Max Weber Foundation

11.2009
Preis für Geisteswissenschaften der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Awarded for Mordlust. Serial Murders, Violence and Emotions in the 20th Century

02.2007 - 02. 2013
German Historical Institute London
Research Associate

02.2005 - 11.2006
Stark Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG, Freising
Editorial Department Politics/Economics and History

10.2001 - 12.2004
University of Bielefeld, Research Training Group "Social History of Groups, Strata, Classes and Elites" (DFG-funded)
Scholarship holder, doctoral examination: 31 October 2005

07.2000 - 04.2001
University of Bielefeld
Study degree (M.A.)

11.1999 - 06.2000
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Studies, DAAD scholarship holder

04.1995 - 08.1999
University of Bielefeld
Studies (History, Social History, Education, Literature, Linguistics)

07.1992 - 03.1995
Bookshop Schmorl & v. Seefeld Nachf. GmbH, Hanover
Training and employment as a bookseller

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Große Scharrnstraße 59
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
  • HG 006

+49 335 5534 2754 brueckweh@europa-uni.de