List of Contributors
Uta Bretschneider, Director of the Open-air Museum Kloster VeĂra. Research interests: everyday culture in the GDR, biographical research, history of rural areas and industrial culture. Recent publications: âVom Ich zum Wirâ? FlĂŒchtlinge und Vertriebene als Neubauern in der LPG. Leipzig 2016; Um-Deutungen â Zeitgenössische und aktuelle Darstellungsmodi von Bodenreform und Kollektivierung, in: Markus Gloe et al. (eds.): Standortbestimmung Deutschlandforschung. Berlin 2016, 35â54.
Simone Derix, Senior Lecturer (Privatdozentin), University of Munich, currently Senior Lecturer (Akademische OberrÀtin), University of Duisburg-Essen. Research interests: modern and contemporary European and international history, history of wealth, history of family and kinship in transnational perspective. Recent publications: Die Thyssens. Familie und Vermögen. Paderborn 2016; Der Wert der Dinge (= Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, H. 3/2016), ed. with Benno Gammerl, Christiane Reinecke, Nina Verheyen.
Alice Detjen, Member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Group No. 1608 âSelf-Making: Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectiveâ, University of Oldenburg. Research interests: the house and artistic self-conceptions in Victorian England.
Margareth Lanzinger, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, current research project: âThe Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spacesâ (FWF Austrian Research Fund). Research interests: kinship, marriage, property and the power of disposal, legal and administrative practice, relations between norms and practice, the construction of heroes. Recent publications: Verwaltete Verwandtschaft. Eheverbote, kirchliche und staatliche Dispenspraxis im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Wien 2015; (ed.) The Power of the Fathers. Historical Perspectives from Ancient Rome to the Nineteenth Century. London 2015.
Janine Maegraith, Affiliated Lecturer and Director of Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, currently Research Associate, âThe Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spacesâ (FWF Austrian Research Fund), University of Vienna. Research interests: early modern history of Central Europe, with focus on social and legal history, consumption, and gender studies; the history and development of female religious orders. Recent publications: Konkurrenz um Vermögen im sĂŒdlichen Tirol des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: LâHomme 27, no. 1 (2016), 15â31, with Margareth Lanzinger; Consumption and Material Life, in: Hamish Scott (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History. Oxford 2015, vol. 1, 369â397, with Craig Muldrew.
Julia A. Schmidt-Funke, Research Coordinator, University of Erfurt. Research interests: early modern material culture and consumption, urban history, gender history, history of science. Recent publications: Neue Stadtgeschichte(n). Die Reichsstadt Frankfurt im Vergleich. Bielefeld 2017; Haben und Sein. Materielle Kultur und Konsum im frĂŒhneuzeitlichen Frankfurt am Main. Köln 2018 (forthcoming).
Monika Szczepaniak, Professor for German Studies, University of Bydgoszcz. Research interests: Austrian and German Literature of the 20th century (with special emphasis on Elfriede Jelinek), Gender Studies (constructions and deconstructions of masculinities in German, Austrian and Polish Literature and Culture), Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Recent publications: MilitĂ€rische MĂ€nnlichkeiten in Deutschland und Ăsterreich im Umfeld des GroĂen Krieges. Konstruktionen und Dekonstruktionen. WĂŒrzburg 2011; Temperaturen des Begehrens. Sinnliche PrĂ€senz und kulturelle ReprĂ€sentationen. (= Studia Germanica Posnaniensia 36/2015), ed. with Joanna Drynda; Jelineks RĂ€ume. Wien 2017, ed. with Agnieszka Jezierska, Pia Janke.
Jonathan Voges, Research Associate, University of Hanover. Research interests: do-it-yourself and home improvement in Western Germany; intellectual cooperation under the roof of the League of nations in the 1920s and 1930s. Recent publications: âSelbst ist der Mannâ. Do-it-yourself und Heimwerken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Göttingen 2017; Die Axt im Haus. Die âVerbĂŒrgerlichungâ des Selbermachens in den 1960er Jahren, in: Nikola Langreiter and Klara Löffler (eds.): Selber machen. Diskurse und Praktiken des âDo it yourselfâ. Essen 2017, 35â57.
Manfred Sing, Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Research interests: The history of Islam, secularism, and Arab Marxism in a transnational and transcultural perspective. Recent publications: Pharaonische Hochkultur und islamischer Niedergang: Der Kampf um kulturelle SouverĂ€nitĂ€t im Ăgypten des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, in: Gregor Feindt, Bernhard GiĂibl and Johannes Paulmann (eds.): Kulturelle SouverĂ€nitĂ€t. Politische Deutungs- und Handlungsmacht jenseits des Staates im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen 2017, 133â164; Dis/Connecting Islam and Terror: The âOpen Letter to Al-Baghdadiâ and the Pitfalls of Condemning ISIS on Islamic Grounds, in: Journal of Religious and Political Practice 2, 3 (2016), 296â318.