Marcus Grasses

Marcus Gräser (born February 25, 1964 in Bad Vilbel ) is a German historian and professor of modern history and contemporary history at the University of Linz .

education

Gräser began studying history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in the 1984/85 winter semester . He majored in Medieval and Modern History and chose Sociology and Political Science as minor subjects. In June 1989 he passed the master's examination. Marcus Gräser was presented with a thesis on “The blocked welfare state. Lower Class Youth and Youth Welfare in the Weimar Republic ” PhD in 1993 under Lothar Gall .

Professional career

Between April 1993 and February 1995, Gräser worked as a freelance historian with a contract for work at the Wetterau Museum Friedberg and worked on the development of sources on the regional history of the savings banks. Between March 1995 and December 1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the DFG Graduate College “Statehood” at the University of Gießen , after which he worked as a research assistant at the Center for North America Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main between January 1996 and December 1999, where he was part of the DFG project "Poverty and communal social reform in the USA and in Germany 1880-1940" was employed by Hans-Jürgen Puhle . In 1996/97 Gräser was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago , then from 1997 to 1999 a member of the board of directors of the Center for North America Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He also worked from 1998 to 2005 as a lecturer at the History Department of the University of Frankfurt am Main. In addition, he received a post-doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation from 2000 to 2001 and in March 2002 was a Visiting Fellow of the David Bruce Center for American Studies at Keele University . After he was a Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna between October 2002 and January 2003 and a Postdoc Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington from March to May 2004 , he completed his habilitation in May 2005 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and was authorized to teach the subject Recent history. Gräser then worked as a private lecturer at the History Department of the University of Frankfurt am Main and in 2006 was a Fellow of the German Historical Institute in Washington / National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition, he was a fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Relations in Vienna between August and December 2006 and a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago in 2006/2007. From March 2008 he worked as a research assistant at the Center for North America Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main. In 2009 and 2010, Gräser represented the professorship for North American History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 2010 to 2011 he was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Since October 2011 Gräser has been teaching as professor for modern history and contemporary history at the Johannes Kepler University Linz .

Works (selection)

Monographs

• The blocked welfare state. Lower class youth and child welfare in the Weimar Republic. (= Critical Studies in History , Vol. 107). Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995.
• The Mathildenstift in the Wetterau. Sparkasse history and regional history. Darmstadt, Society for Hessian Economic History, 1995.
• Welfare society and welfare state. Civil Social Reform and Welfare State Building in the USA and Germany 1880–1940. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008.

Editorships

• State, nation, democracy. Traditions and Perspectives of Modern Societies. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Puhle , Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-36259-5 .
• Imaging Vienna. Inside views, outside views, city narratives (together with Monika Sommer and Ursula Prutsch ), Vienna 2006.
• North America. History and society since the 18th century . Vienna 2009 (together with Margarete Grandner ).
• The 'Austrian Revolution' 1918/19. On the problem of an old master tale of contemporary history in Austria ( Zeitgeschichte. Jg. 41, 2014, no. 6, together with Birgit Kirchmayr ).

Awards

• Research award from the Josef Popper Nutrition Foundation for his habilitation thesis (2007)
• David Thelen Award from the Organization of American Historians for the best non-English-language essay on American history (2008)

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcus Gräser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcus Gräser on the website of the University of Linz