Eva-Maria Stolberg

Eva-Maria Stolberg (* 1964 ) is a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school, Stolberg studied Modern History with a focus on Eastern European History, Sinology , Japanese Studies and Slavic Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . From 1988 to 1991 she was a research assistant at the Department of Eastern European History. In 1992 a study visit at the University of Peking (Beida) followed, and in 1993 a research fellowship at the Institute of the Far East (Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1996 she did her doctorate on Soviet-Chinese relations during the Cold War (1945–1953). Her main academic mentors were Alexander Fischer , Rolf Trauschein , Dieter Heinzig (formerly the Federal Institute for Eastern Studies / Cologne) and Ru Ruizhen at Peking University.

In the time between her doctorate and her habilitation, she dealt with topics from Eastern European history, particularly with regard to transcultural relations with East Asia. In 2005 she qualified as a professor at the Seminar for Eastern European History at the University of Bonn with the topic “Siberia - Russia's Wild East. Myth and Social Reality in the 19th and 20th Centuries ”, funded by various domestic and foreign grants (Lise Meitner habilitation grant NRW, Canon Foundation / Leiden). The focus of this work is the Russian colonial / imperial history using the example of Siberia under global and transnational issues (reference to Inner and East Asia, to the Pacific region).

In 2007 she was re-qualified at the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg-Essen , where she focuses on global and transnational history in the 19th and 20th centuries (Eastern Europe, Russia / Soviet Union, Inner and East Asia, USA, Pacific region). Until 2012 she was editor of the yearbook for non-European history (Periplus), assistant at the chair for non-European history ( Christoph Marx ). In the German-speaking area she is the initiator of Russia-Asian Studies. In 2012 Eva-Maria Stolberg trained as a mediator (focus on business mediation) and obtained the European Business Certificate at the Hagen Institute for Management Studies. She is a member of AcessAsia. National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle. She has been a reviewer at the Max Weber Foundation for Asia-specific topics since 2019.

Research priorities

• Transnational History (Western and Eastern Europe),
• Global history (Russia, Eurasia, East Asia, Pacific region),
• Theories of history (frontier, spatial turn, historical sociology, global urbanity, indigenous peoples)

Fonts

• Siberia - Russia's Wild East. Myth and Social Reality in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Contributions to European history. Edited by Markus A. Denzel, Hermann Hiery, Stuttgart 2009.
• Traugott von Stackelberg. Voljeni Sibir (Beloved Siberia) . Serbian edition together with Milorad Sfronijevic, Belgrade 2009.
• In search of Eden . Cultural history of the garden, Frankfurt a. M. 2008.
• Special issue “Siberian Peoples”. Periplus. Yearbook for Non-European History, Lit: Münster 2007.
• The Siberian Saga: A History of Russia's Wild East . Frankfurt a. M. / New York 2005.
• History of Russia and the Soviet Union . Course unit 5: Soviet-Chinese relations in the 20th century, Fern-Universität Hagen, Chair: Non-European History Jürgen Osterhammel 1999.
• Stalin and the Chinese communists . A study of the history of the origins of the Soviet-Chinese alliance against the backdrop of the Cold War. Sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe, Volume 48, Stuttgart 1997.

More than 100 articles, encyclopedia articles and contributions for national and international conferences, more than 50 reviews on Eastern European, Asian and North American history.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva-Maria Stolberg in the catalog of the German National Library