Maren Möhring

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Maren Möhring (* 1970 in Bremen ) is a German historian and professor for the comparative cultural and social history of modern Europe at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Maren Möhring studied history, German and educational science at the University of Hamburg from 1990 to 1998 . From 1993 to 1994 she was an Erasmus scholarship holder at Trinity College in Dublin and from 1998 to 2001 she was a DFG scholarship holder in the graduate college "Gender Difference & Literature" at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2002 Möhring completed her doctorate at LMU Munich with a thesis on marble bodies. Physical Education in German Nude Culture (1890-1930) .

In 2010 she completed her habilitation with a monograph on the history of foreign gastronomy in the Federal Republic of Germany. The habilitation thesis was published in 2012 under the title Fremdes Essen. The history of foreign gastronomy in the Federal Republic of Germany near Oldenbourg. Möhring received various prizes for the habilitation thesis. From 2012 to 2014 she was head of Department III The Change of Politics at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam . In March 2014, she accepted a call from Leipzig University and has since worked there as a professor for the comparative cultural and social history of modern Europe. Her research areas are the cultural and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries, consumer history, migration research, postcolonial studies, gender and body history as well as history and film.

Prices

Monographs

  • Marble body. Physical Education in German Nude Culture (1890-1930). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004.
  • Foreign food. The history of foreign gastronomy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Habilitation thesis. University of Cologne 2009/2010. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012.

Editor

  • with Alexander Nützenadel : Diet in the Age of Globalization = Comparative. Journal for Global History and Comparative Society Research 17/3, 2007.
  • with Massimo Perinelli , Olaf Stieglitz : Animal films, a modern human history. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009.
  • with Marc Forster : Public Eating, Public Drinking. Places of Consumption from Early Modern to Postmodern Times. Food & History 7/2, 2009.
  • with Ulrike Lindner , Mark Stein , Silke Stroh : Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States. Insecurity and Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post) Colonial World. Rodopi, Amsterdam / New York 2010.
  • with Erhard Schüttpelz, Martin Zillinger: Knappheit = Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1/2011.
  • Co-editor of the series Gender - Culture - Society. LIT, Münster (Hamburg working group for gender research)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Center for Contemporary Historical Research Potsdam ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 31, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zzf-pdm.de
  2. ↑ Entry about Maren Möhring at Clio online, specialist portal for the historical sciences , accessed on May 31, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Möhring, Maren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen