Ursula Lehmkuhl

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Ursula Lehmkuhl (2018)

Ursula Lehmkuhl (born May 20, 1962 in Bocholt ) is a German historian .

life and work

Ursula Lehmkuhl studied Romance studies and history from 1981 to 1985 at the University of Siegen and Ruhr University Bochum , where she passed her master's degree in 1985 and received her doctorate in 1990 “ summa cum laude ” . 1997 followed the habilitation in political science .

In 1999 she was appointed to the chair for North American History at the University of Erfurt . From 2002 to 2010 she was Professor of Modern History with a focus on North American History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2004 she has been in charge of the collection of German emigration letters, which is curated by the Gotha Research Library. Together with the “German Heritage in Letters” project coordinated by the German Historical Institute in Washington, she tries to collect letters from emigrants and letters that German people at home have written to the USA and make them accessible for research. From 2006 to 2009 she headed the Center for Regional Studies at the FU. Together with Thomas Risse, she headed the Collaborative Research Center 700 from 2006 to 2010. On February 21, 2007, she was elected First Vice President of the Free University of Berlin . From March to June 2010 she headed the Free University as acting president. In October 2010 she accepted a call to the University of Trier for a newly established professorship for international history.

In addition to her work in the areas of migration history, colonial history and the history of international relations, Lehmkuhl has a research focus in the field of Canada Studies: 2013–2015 she was President of the Society for Canada Studies, GKS. Since 2013, together with Laurence McFalls (Université de Montréal), she has headed the first DFG-funded German-Canadian International Graduate School in the humanities and social sciences (IRTG 1864). It deals with "Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces" and is supported by the University of Trier, the Université de Montreál and the University of Saarland. In 2018 she published the "Country Report Canada" together with the Federal Agency for Civic Education. She authored the chapters on the history of Canada, Canadian dualism and Canadian foreign policy.

She is the editor of the publication series “Diversity / Diversité / Diversität” (Münster, Waxmann Verlag).

In addition to her research and teaching activities, Lehmkuhl is involved in university self-administration. She is deputy chairwoman of the University Council of the University of Cologne and the University Council of the University of Vienna. She is a member of the Senate at the University of Trier. From 2000 to 2002 she was Vice President for Research, International Affairs and Young Academics at the University of Erfurt and from 2007 to 2010 she was self-deputy president of the Free University of Berlin.

Editor

  • Country report Canada . BpB series of publications, 10200th Federal Agency for Civic Education BpB, Bonn am Rhein 2018 (568 pages)
    • therein as author: The "Peaceable Kingdom". Canada in the international community 1945 - 2016, pp. 522 - 550
  • Translation as a Heuristic Model for Diversity Studies , in Lehmkuhl, Ursula and Lutz Schowalter (ed.), Translating Diversity. Concepts, Practices, and Politics (Münster, 2019), 29–56.
  • Paradoxes of Resistance and Resilience: The Pitfalls of Métis Renaissance since the 1970s , Transcanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies, 8 Special Issue: Canadian Sites of Resistance: Solidarity — Struggle — Change (?), Ed. By Weronika Suchacka, Hartmut Lutz, and Anna Kricka (2016), 52–72.
  • Good Land - Bad Land: Ecological Knowledge and the Settling of the old Northwest, 1755-1805 , Settler Colonial Studies, (2016), 1-23.
  • with Ursula and Eva Bischoff, Provincializing the United States: Postcolonial Perspectives on North American History , in Lehmkuhl, Ursula, Eva Bischoff, and Norbert Finzsch (ed.), Provincializing the United States: Colonialism, Decolonization, and (Post) Colonial Governance in Transnational Perspective (Heidelberg, 2014), 5–29.
  • Johann Heinrich Carl - The Revolutionary: The History and Collective Memory of a German-American Family, 1852-2004 , Studia Migracyjne - Przeglad Polonijny, 2 (2014), 31–56.
  • Reading Immigrant Letters and Bridging the Micro-Macro Divide , Studia Migracyjne - Przeglad Polonijny, 2 (2014), 9–30.
  • Marriage and Migration in Emigrant Letters - The Holdings of the North American Letters Collection , L'Homme - European Journal of Feminist History, 25 (2014), 123–128.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Lehmkuhl: curriculum vitae
  2. ↑ www.auswandererbriefe.de
  3. ^ German Letters
  4. ^ Center for Area Studies
  5. ↑ www.sfb-governance.de
  6. ↑ IRTG Diversity
  7. ↑ Country report Canada
  8. ↑ New series of publications by the Diversity Research Training Group
personal data
SURNAME Lehmkuhl, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocholt