Gisela Mettele

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Gisela Maria Mettele (* 1959 ) is a German historian and university professor . Her main research interests are women and gender studies as well as the history of religion and the bourgeoisie.

biography

After studying theater studies and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and training as a tailor, Mettele studied philosophy, political science and music education at the University of Frankfurt , where she received her doctorate in 1994. From 1989 to 1994 Mettele worked as a research assistant for the research project "City and Bourgeoisie in the 19th Century" with Lothar Gall , also at the University of Frankfurt. From 1999 to 2005 she was a lecturer at the Technical University of Chemnitz , where she also completed her habilitation in 2004 . From 2005 to 2006, she conducted research in the USA as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC There she took over the post of acting director in 2007.

In 2007 she was appointed Lecturer in Urban History at the University of Leicester in Great Britain. Gisela Mettele has been Professor of Gender History at the University of Jena since 2010 . From 2009 to 2010 Gisela Mettele was a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University .

Gisela Mettele is on the board of the International Federation for Research in Women's History . She is also a member of the board of directors of the Research Center Laboratory Enlightenment at the University of Jena and of the Otto von Bismarck Foundation . In the working group historic Women and Gender Studies of the Federal Republic of Germany (AKHFG e. V.), it has also held the office of a board member.

In her research, Mettele emphasizes the special importance of women's history and argues that this should not be lost within gender history.

Publications (selection)

  • Bourgeoisie in Cologne 1775–1870. Public spirit and free association. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998.
  • Citizenship or Kingdom of God? The Moravian Brethren as a global community 1760–1857. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009.
  • (Ed. With Andreas Schulz ): Prussia as a cultural state in the 19th century. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015.
  • (Ed. Jointly with Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall): Gender, War, and Politics. The Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons (1775-1815). London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
  • (Ed. Together with Thomas Adam): Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe's Germany. The Travel Journals of Anna and George Ticknor. Lanham MD: Lexington, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Federation for Research in Women's History , accessed December 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ Gisela Mettele is the first professor of gender history at the University of Jena ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Jenapolis, February 23, 2010, accessed on December 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mettele, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mettele, Gisela Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959