Dorothee Brantz

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Dorothee Brantz (born May 23, 1970 ) is a German historian . She is the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the TU Berlin .

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Dorothee Brantz received her MA Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1995 . There she received her doctorate in 2003 with a comparative study of the slaughterhouses in Paris, Berlin and Chicago in the years 1780 to 1914, supervised by Michael Geyer , Jan Goldstein , William Sewell and Harriet Ritvo . In it, she examined the rise of modern mass slaughterhouses and their relationship to urban growth. From 2002 to 2003 she was a lecturer at the University of Chicago. From 2003 to 2004 she was a postdoc at the Free University of Berlin . From 2004 to 2005 she was a Thyssen-Heideking Fellow at the University of Cologne . From 2005 to 2007 she was Assistant Professor of Comparative European and Transatlantic History at the University at Buffalo . From 2008 to 2010 she was Executive Director of the Transatlantic Graduate School DFG -IGK 1015: “History and Culture of the Metropolises of Berlin and New York in the 20th Century”. From 2007 to 2013 she was junior professor for modern / urban history at the Center for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin. As the successor to Heinz Reif , she has been Head of the Center for Metropolitan Studies / CMS at TU Berlin since 2009. There she has been teaching modern and latest history / city history as a university professor W3 since October 2013. Since 2012 she has been the spokesperson for the International Research Training Group DFG 1705/1: Berlin-New York-Toronto “The world in the city: Metropolitanism and globalization from the 19th century to the present”.

Her main research interests are urban environmental history, comparative transatlantic history (Germany, France, USA), war and the environment in the 20th century, history of human-animal relationships, war history as well as social theory and historical methods. Her dissertation was awarded the Richard Saller Dissertation Prize for Best Dissertation in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. As a result of a conference organized by the German Historical Institute in Washington in 2005 , Brantz and Christof Mauch published an anthology in 2010 on individual aspects of the relationship between humans and animals.

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Editorships

  • with Harald Bodenschatz: Green Issues and Urban Development. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86732-335-2 .
  • with Sasha Disko, Georg Wagner-Kyora: Thick space. Approaches to metropolitanism. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-8376-2043-3 .
  • with Christof Mauch: Animal history. The relationship between humans and animals in modern culture. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76382-2 .

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  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar Online
  2. ↑ 2003-04, Dorothee Brantz Slaughter in the City: The Establishment of Public Abattoirs in Paris and Berlin, 1780-1914 History, In: Socialsciences.uchicago
  3. ↑ See the reviews by Rainer Pöppinghege in: H-Soz-Kult , July 1, 2010, ( online ); Brage bei der Wieden in: sehepunkte 10 (2010), No. 5 [15. May 2010], ( online ); Pascal Eitler in: Neue Politische Literatur 58 (2013), pp. 80–81 ( online ).
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SURNAME Brantz, Dorothee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1970