Michaela Hampf
Maria Michaela Hampf (* 1971 in Bremen ) is a German historian and junior professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin . In the summer semester of 2016 and in the winter semester of 2016/2017 she represented Sebastian Conrad's chair at the Free University of Berlin . From the 2017/18 winter semester to the 2019/2020 winter semester, she is Anke Ortlepp's chair at the University of Kassel . On June 13, 2018, Michaela Hampf completed her habilitation in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Trier . Her habilitation thesis was titled "Empire of Liberty ?: The United States from Reconstruction to the Spanish-American War". Michaela Hampf studied English and history at the Universities of Oldenburg and Hamburg. After completing her Magistra exam in 1999, she did her doctorate in Bern with Stig Förster . In 2018 she completed her habilitation in the subject of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Trier with a thesis on the history of the USA between 1865 and 1920. Michaela Hampf conducts research on the military history of the United States, women in the military, the history of the media, especially the radio, and on African-American history. She combines gender history and queer studies with approaches to institutional history. At the moment she is increasingly concerned with the history of eugenics , with transnational history and transfer history . She also applies path dependence theory to US history.
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- Free radio in the US. The Pacifica Foundation 1946–1965 (= studies on the history, politics and society of North America. Vol. 15). Lit, Münster / Hamburg / London 2000.
- Release a Man for Combat: The Women's Army Corps during World War II. Böhlau, Cologne 2010.
- Empire of Liberty: The United States from the Reconstruction to the Spanish-American War. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2019.
Editorships
- with Ursula Lehmkuhl : Radio Welten. Political, social and cultural aspects of Atlantic media history before and during World War II. Lit, Münster u. a. 2006.
- with Maryann Snyder-Körber: Machine: Bodies, Genders, Technologies. Winter, Heidelberg 2012.
- with network body in cultural studies: What can a body do? Practices and figurations of the body in cultural studies. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2012.
- with Simone Müller-Pohl: Global Communication Electric: Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Telegraphy. Campus, Frankfurt / M. 2013.
- with Claudia Bruns : Knowledge - Transfer - Difference: Transnational and interdiscursive entanglements of racism from 1700. Wallstein, Göttingen 2018.
Web links
- Literature by and about Michaela Hampf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michaela Hampf on the website of the Free University of Berlin
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- Michaela Hampf on the website of the University of Kassel [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hampf, Michaela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hampf, Maria Michaela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |