Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti
Barnabas is a cultural worker, an art historian and a public scholar with research interests spannin...
Current fellows
The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
Short-term scholarships furnished by the Munich Centre for Global History supplement this programme. Actively integrating the epistemic potential of the arts is vitally important to global dis:connect because they can offer counternarratives to hegemonic discourses, to supposed certainties and to entrenched viewpoints (including scholarly ones). The opportunities — and risks — of artistic research and its critical position towards society and scholarship have barely been incorporated into academic research, methods, practices and results.
Bobby Smith
Bobby is a practitioner-researcher based at Warwick University. He collaborates with artists, resear...
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
Daniela is an assistant professor of architectural history at the Goethe University Frankfurt and sc...
Doerte Bischoff
Doerte is a professor at the Department of Germanic Literatures and chair of the Walter A. Berendsoh...
Karen Oslund
Karen is a professor of world history at Towson University. Since 1995, she has been studying the gl...
Lachlan Fleetwood
Lachlan is a historian of science, empire, geography and environment. He completed his PhD at Cambri...
Leila Kiknadze
Leila is an associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Geo...
Liliia Tsyganenko
Liliia is a historian specialising in southern Ukraine, gender studies, the impact of late Stalinism...
Marina Vinnik
Marina is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in the intersections of gender studies, art history...
Michael Klipphahn-Karge
Michael is an art historian and assistant professor of history and theory of art and design at the L...
Nives Kinunda Ngullu
Nives is a lecturer at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE). She earned her PhD ...
Sebastian Conrad
Sebastian holds the Chair of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. With a background in E...
Sören Urbansky
Sören holds the Chair of East European History at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He specialises in ...
Associated fellows
Kai Herzog
Kai is a historian and postdoctoral research fellow at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, special...
Mark Häberlein
Mark Häberlein is a professor of early modern history at the University of Bamberg. His research focusses on the economic, social, urban and cultural history of the early modern period and on the history of North America and the Atlantic world. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Augsburg. He was Feodor Lynen Fellow at Pennsylvania State University in 1999-2000 and a DFG Heisenberg Fellow from 2001-2004. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2022 and is chairman of the Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte e.V.
The project deals with the intensifying relations between Central Europe and North America in the 18th century. More than 100,000 Germans and Swiss emigrated to the New World by 1800, and 30,000 German soldiers were deployed in the American War of Independence. By means of transatlantic migration, religious minorities and dissidents from Central Europe were ‘exported’ to North America. Secular networks of merchants, ship-owners and business travellers as well as religious communication and support networks developed. In addition, an independent German-American culture emerged in Pennsylvania.
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Mark Häberlein
Click HERE to email Mark.
Click HERE for a list of publications.
Mark Häberlein is a professor of early modern history at the University of Bamberg. His research focusses on the economic, social, urban and cultural history of the early modern period and on the history of North America and the Atlantic world. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Augsburg. He was Feodor Lynen Fellow at Pennsylvania State University in 1999-2000 and a DFG Heisenberg Fellow from 2001-2004. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2022 and is chairman of the Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte e.V.
The project deals with the intensifying relations between Central Europe and North America in the 18th century. More than 100,000 Germans and Swiss emigrated to the New World by 1800, and 30,000 German soldiers were deployed in the American War of Independence. By means of transatlantic migration, religious minorities and dissidents from Central Europe were ‘exported’ to North America. Secular networks of merchants, ship-owners and business travellers as well as religious communication and support networks developed. In addition, an independent German-American culture emerged in Pennsylvania.