Though funded by affiliated institutions, our associated fellows enrich and honour global dis:connect by sharing their ideas, insights and research with us here on site.
peter becker
munich centre for global history
Peter Becker is a professor of Austrian History in Vienna. Before joining the University of Vienna, he was a professor in European History at the EUI in Florence. His research covers criminology as discourse and institutional practice, state building, governance and public administration, with a focus on the interplay between regional and national actor networks, global policy formation and international organisations: Remaking Central Europe (2020), edited with N. Wheatly in 2020 and A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe (2023), ed. with T. Zahra.
Recent crises have brought the role of states into focus. The state’s scope of action has expanded, even though states are less sovereign than reliant on engagement with international organizations and collaboration with national and regional interest groups in these crises. My project uses these observations for a history of crisis management by modern states in a complex multi-level system, in which international state and non-state actors act together with governments of individual states, their expert committees, and local and regional networks of actors. I begin looking at the transformation crisis after the Great War and how the League responded to it.
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peter becker
munich centre for global history
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Peter Becker is a professor of Austrian History in Vienna. Before joining the University of Vienna, he was a professor in European History at the EUI in Florence. His research covers criminology as discourse and institutional practice, state building, governance and public administration, with a focus on the interplay between regional and national actor networks, global policy formation and international organisations: Remaking Central Europe (2020), edited with N. Wheatly in 2020 and A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe (2023), ed. with T. Zahra.
Recent crises have brought the role of states into focus. The state’s scope of action has expanded, even though states are less sovereign than reliant on engagement with international organizations and collaboration with national and regional interest groups in these crises. My project uses these observations for a history of crisis management by modern states in a complex multi-level system, in which international state and non-state actors act together with governments of individual states, their expert committees, and local and regional networks of actors. I begin looking at the transformation crisis after the Great War and how the League responded to it.
Paul Blickle
university of Basel
Paul Blickle is a PhD candidate at the LMU Munich. He received his BA (2017) and MA (2020) in history from the University of Heidelberg and spent a year abroad at the University of Durham and Yale University each. Since 2021, Paul has been working as a research assistant to Roland Wenzlhuemer. From September 2022 to September 2023, he is acting-managing editor of the review journal sehepunkte. Paul’s research interests include maritime history, port cities and steam power in the 19th century.
Paul’s dissertation investigates the global history of ship’s ballast in the 19th century (on ships, in ports, shipyards and markets). Ballast — commercially useless makeweight — served to stabilise ships on the high seas and thus enabled global connection at sea. At the same time, its absence or presence could have considerable dis:connective effects in that the universal need for ballast disrupted the transfer of goods from ship to shore, illegal ballast-dumping silted harbours and estuaries, and the (non)availability of ballast affected shipping routes and trade-patterns.
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Paul Blickle
university of basel
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Paul Blickle is a PhD candidate at the LMU Munich. He received his BA (2017) and MA (2020) in history from the University of Heidelberg and spent a year abroad at the University of Durham and Yale University each. Since 2021, Paul has been working as a research assistant to Roland Wenzlhuemer. From September 2022 to September 2023, he is acting-managing editor of the review journal sehepunkte. Paul’s research interests include maritime history, port cities and steam power in the 19th century.
Paul’s dissertation investigates the global history of ship’s ballast in the 19th century (on ships, in ports, shipyards and markets). Ballast — commercially useless makeweight — served to stabilise ships on the high seas and thus enabled global connection at sea. At the same time, its absence or presence could have considerable dis:connective effects in that the universal need for ballast disrupted the transfer of goods from ship to shore, illegal ballast-dumping silted harbours and estuaries, and the (non)availability of ballast affected shipping routes and trade-patterns.
Lachlan Fleetwood
msca fellow
Lachlan Fleetwood is historian of science, empire, geography and the environment. He completed a PhD at Cambridge and subsequently held fellowships at University College Dublin and Yale. He comes to LMU as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. His work focuses on the uneven imposition of ostensibly global environmental categories by empires in the long nineteenth century. His research also investigates how geographical features like mountains and deserts can serve as scales for new global histories of science, empire and labour. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
At global dis:connect, Lachlan is completing a project titled Imperial science and the habitability of Central Asia and Mesopotamia, 1815-1914: a history of the societal consequences of changing limits. This history of environmental sciences examines ideas of habitability, uninhabitability and climatic determinism in relation to empire, and it traces their postcolonial legacies in the age of climate crisis.
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Lachlan Fleetwood
msca fellow
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Soon to be updated.
Lachlan Fleetwood is historian of science, empire, geography and the environment. He completed a PhD at Cambridge and subsequently held fellowships at University College Dublin and Yale. He comes to LMU as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. His work focuses on the uneven imposition of ostensibly global environmental categories by empires in the long nineteenth century. His research also investigates how geographical features like mountains and deserts can serve as scales for new global histories of science, empire and labour. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
At global dis:connect, Lachlan is completing a project titled Imperial science and the habitability of Central Asia and Mesopotamia, 1815-1914: a history of the societal consequences of changing limits. This history of environmental sciences examines ideas of habitability, uninhabitability and climatic determinism in relation to empire, and it traces their postcolonial legacies in the age of climate crisis.
jie-hyun lim
munich centre for global history
Jie-Hyun Lim holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He has published on nationalism, Marxism, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He is a principal investigator of the Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) research project and edits the Entangled Memories in the Global South series among others. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism-Global History and Memory (2024), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (2024) and Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (2022).
During his fellowship at gd:c, he will work on multilingual versions of victimhood nationalism as a conceptual tool to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung across Europe and East Asia. By drawing on the entangled past of the political and cultural production, representations, consumption and distribution of victimhood memories between Korea and Japan, and between Poland, Germany and Israel, my book traces the global trajectory of victimhood nationalism.
jie-hyun lim
munich centre for global history
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Jie-Hyun Lim holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He has published on nationalism, Marxism, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He is a principal investigator of the Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) research project and edits the Entangled Memories in the Global South series among others. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism-Global History and Memory (2024), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (2024) and Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (2022).
During his fellowship at gd:c, he will work on multilingual versions of victimhood nationalism as a conceptual tool to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung across Europe and East Asia. By drawing on the entangled past of the political and cultural production, representations, consumption and distribution of victimhood memories between Korea and Japan, and between Poland, Germany and Israel, my book traces the global trajectory of victimhood nationalism.
kevin ostoyich
spungen foundation
Hailing from Valparaiso University, Kevin Ostoyich has published on German migration, German-American history, historical pedagogy, the Holocaust and the Shanghai Jews. He has been interviewing Holocaust survivors for many years and is frequently invited to speak about the history of the Shanghai Jews around the world.
Kevin’s forthcoming volume, The Herero and the Shanghai Jews: Oral History in Genocide and Refugee Studies, will tell individual stories analyse two little-known groups via oral history. The oral-history approach provides a level of intimacy often missing in standard textbook treatments. The book will explore major themes of commonality and divergence among two groups who have experienced genocide and exile at different points in the twentieth century. The goal is to elucidate how victims relate their experiences across generations, the meanings accorded to the refugee experience, perceptions of commemorative activities and how oral history can illuminate the experiences of genocide and forced migration
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kevin ostoyich
spungen foundation
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Click HERE for a list of publications.
Hailing from Valparaiso University, Kevin Ostoyich has published on German migration, German-American history, historical pedagogy, the Holocaust and the Shanghai Jews. He has been interviewing Holocaust survivors for many years and is frequently invited to speak about the history of the Shanghai Jews around the world.
Kevin’s forthcoming volume, The Herero and the Shanghai Jews: Oral History in Genocide and Refugee Studies, will tell individual stories analyse two little-known groups via oral history. The oral-history approach provides a level of intimacy often missing in standard textbook treatments. The book will explore major themes of commonality and divergence among two groups who have experienced genocide and exile at different points in the twentieth century. The goal is to elucidate how victims relate their experiences across generations, the meanings accorded to the refugee experience, perceptions of commemorative activities and how oral history can illuminate the experiences of genocide and forced migration
Callie Wilkinson
msca fellow
Callie Wilkinson studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
At global dis:connect, Callie is investigating how Company soldiers’ testimony affected broader discourses about the Company’s military operations in an age before professional war correspondents.
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Callie Wilkinson
msca fellow
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Callie Wilkinson studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
At global dis:connect, Callie is investigating how Company soldiers’ testimony affected broader discourses about the Company’s military operations in an age before professional war correspondents.