Angelika Epple

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Angelika Epple (* 1966 ) is a German historian . She is Professor of General History and the current Vice Rector for International Affairs and Diversity at Bielefeld University .

Educational career

Epple studied in 1985 Estudios Hispánicos at the University of Malaga in Spain.

In the following years she studied history, German studies, educational science and philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the Free University of Berlin , where she passed her first state examination in 1995 on the subject of Henriette Fürth and the women's movement in the German Empire successfully completed her studies.

Between 1995 and 2000 she worked as a doctoral candidate within the research group Social History of Groups, Strata, Classes and Elites at Bielefeld University.

In 2001 she continued her educational career there with her dissertation Sensitive Historiography. A gender history of historiography between the Enlightenment and historicism (contributions to cultural history) continues.

As part of her research focus on the history of globalization, Epple completed her habilitation in 2008 at the University of Hamburg under the title The Stollwerck Company: A Micro History of Globalization .

Professional career

After training in Chemnitz and Freiburg in 2001, Epple worked as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg from 2002 to 2007 .

She then held the position of senior academic councilor at the University of Freiburg for a year .

Since 2008 she has been Professor of General History at Bielefeld University, with a special focus on the 19th and 20th centuries . Between 2010 and 2015, she also served there as Pro / Dean of the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology.

Since April 2013 she has also been the deputy spokesperson for the BMBF project The Americas as an interdependent area .

In the course of her professional engagement at Bielefeld University , Epple also took on the position of Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Diversity in 2015. Since January 2017, she has also been the spokesperson for the SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing. Order and change the world.

Academic awards

  • 2017 co-editor of the series: Contributions to History Culture, Böhlau-Verlag
  • 2014 Scientific Advisory Board of the journal: "International Archive of the Social History of Literature" (IASL)
  • 2014 member of the advisory board of the Gotha Research Center at the University of Erfurt
  • 2011 co-editor of the magazine: " Neue Politische Literatur " (NPL)
  • 2011 member of the scientific advisory board of the international journal: "Localities" in Busan / Korea
  • 2010 Member of the Advisory Board of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
  • 2008 co-editor of the series: Historical Introductions, Campus-Verlag
  • 2001 Prize for dissertation, awarded by the Friends of the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen

Publications (selection)

  • The Stollwerck company. A micro-history of globalization (1839–1932), Frankfurt a. M./New York 2010.
  • Sensitive historiography. A gender history of historiography between the Enlightenment and historicism, Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003.
  • Henriette Fürth and the women's movement in the German Empire. A social biography, Centaurus-Verlag, Pfaffenweiler 1993.
  • Watch the world. Practices of comparison, according to with Walter Erhart, Frankfurt a. M./New York 2015.
  • Historical anthropology. Culture, society, everyday life. Special issue: Locality and transnational entanglements, Issue 1, 21st year, with Felix Brahm, Rebekka Habermas (ed.), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2013.
  • Entangled Histories: Reflecting on Concepts of Coloniality and Postcoloniality, comparativ, Journal for Global History and Comparative Social Research, Issue 1, 21st year, gem. with Olaf Kaltmeier, Ulrike Lindner (ed.), Leipzig 2011 (Leipziger Universitätsverlag)
  • Gendering Historiography. Beyond National Canons acc. with Angelika Schaser, Frankfurt a. M./New York 2009 (Campus)
  • Globalization, Imagination, Social Space: The Making of Geopolitical Imagineries, (together with Kristen Kramer), in: Forum for Inter-Americian Studies (FIAR), Vol. 9, No. 1, 2016, pp. 41-63.
  • Doing Comparisons - A praxeological approach to the history of globalization / s. In Angelika Epple and Walter Erhart (eds.) Observing the world. Practices of comparison, Frankfurt a. M. / New York (Campus) 2015, pp. 161–199.
  • Global power relations, local interdependencies. The Berlin Congo Conference, Solingen and the hinterland of the colonial arms trade, in: Christof Dejung, Martin Lengwiler (eds.), Ränder der Moderne - New Perspectives on European History (1800–1930), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna (Böhlau-Verlag) 2015, pp. 65–91.
  • Size matters! But how? Global history between great syntheses, skepticism and new empiricism, in: Neue Politische Literatur, 3/2014, pp. 409–436.
  • The devil's handwriting, in: Jürgen Büschenfeld, Bärbel Sunderbrink (ed.), Bielefeld and the world. Coins and Impulse, Bielefeld, 2014, pp. 311–323.
  • Beyond global product chains: Commodityscapes, entanglements, relations and the return of the actors. A commentary, in: Christiane Berth, Dorothee Wierling, Volker Wünderich (eds.), Kaffeewelten. Historical perspectives on a global commodity in the 20th century, Göttingen 2014, pp. 274–280.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Frank Worlitzer | Angelika Epple: Angelika Epple. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Angelika Epple - AcademiaNet. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Epple, Angelica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1966