Prof. Dr. Ulrike Weckel
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- Board Member
- Spokesperson of Section 4
- Prof. Dr. Ulrike Weckel
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- Contact
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Contact
Department of History
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10
Building C, Room 210
D-35394 GiessenTel: 0049-641-99-28300Fax: 0049-641-99-28309
- Short Biography
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- 2013 – present Professor of Journalism and History – History in Media and in the Public, Department of History, Justus Liebig University Giessen
- 2012 – 2013 Visiting Professor of German History of the 20th Century, focused on National Socialism, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2010 – 2012 Academic Senior Councillor, Department of History, Ruhr-University, Bochum
- 2007 – 2010 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 2008 Habilitation and appointment as associate professor for Recent and Modern History, TU, Berlin; Fellowship, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
- 2005 – 2007 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
- 2004 – 2005 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.; Research Fellow, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna
- 1997 – 2003 Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Women and Gender Research, TU, Berlin
- 2001 – 2002 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 1996 PhD in Modern History, University of Hamburg, Hamburg
- 1994 – 1996 Research Associate, Research Project "Politik, Gesellschaft und Geselligkeit der Geschlechter im Zeitalter der Aufklärung"
- 1988 – 1993 Research Associate, Historical Seminar, University of Hamburg
- 1987 Teaching certificate for secondary schools, Hamburg
- 1981 – 1987 Studies of History, German Literature, and Language as well as Educational Sciences, University of Hamburg
- Main Research Interests
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- History of media
- Reception research
- Film as historical source
- Handling of the National Socialist past
- Gender history and the Enlightenment
- Women's journals in the 18th and 19th centuries