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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.

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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.

Click HERE for a list of publications.

Click HERE to email Mark.

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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.

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