Reinhild Kreis

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Reinhild Kreis (* 1978 in Fulda ) is a German historian with a research focus on the history of consumption, protest and emotion , and international and transatlantic relations. She researches and teaches as a temporary academic advisor at the Chair for Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim and, in 2019/2020, she is a substitute professor at the Chair for Social and Economic History at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1997 and a voluntary social year in Munich, Kreis studied history from 1998 to 2004 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and at the National University College of Ireland in Galway . Her master's degree in Modern and Contemporary History in 2004 was followed by a doctoral degree and a position as a research assistant at the LMU. There she received her doctorate in 2009 with a study on German-American institutes and America houses as a factor in transatlantic relations after the Second World War . The work culminated in a publication in 2012, which Wilfried Mausbach described in a review as a “milestone in understanding foreign cultural policy”. She was awarded the ifa Research Prize for Foreign Cultural Policy and the Edmund Spevack Award for Transatlantic Studies .

From 2009 to 2014 Reinhild Kreis was a research assistant at the Chair for the History of the European-Transatlantic Cultural Area at the University of Augsburg , interrupted by a ten-month fellowship in consumer history at the German Historical Institute in Washington . In addition to her subsequent position as temporary academic adviser at the University of Mannheim, she was a Lise Meitner Fellow at the University of Vienna in 2015/2016 . With her habilitation at the University of Mannheim in 2018, she received the license to teach modern and contemporary history. In it she researched values, notions of order and practices of “do-it-yourself in the consumer age” from the 1880s to the 1980s.

Since October 2019, she has been a professor at the Chair of Social and Economic History at the University of Duisburg-Essen for one year .

Publications (selection)

  • Places for America: German-American institutes and America houses in the Federal Republic since the 1960s . (Dissertation 2009). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10048-9 .
  • Alliance without offspring? The "next generation" and German-American relations in the 1980s . In: Archives for Social History . tape 52 , 2012, p. 607–631 ( digitized via library.fes.de ).
  • with Martin Klimke and Christian Ostermann (eds.): Trust, but Verify. The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2016, ISBN 978-0-8047-9809-9 .
  • Diplomacy with feeling. Trust, mistrust and the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany (=  Contemporary History in conversation . No. 21 ). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-486-77844-1 .
  • Home improvement as a protest. Repair occupants and housing policy in West Berlin during the 1980s . In: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History . tape 14 , 2017, doi : 10.14765 / zzf.dok.4.761 ( online edition via zeithistorische-forschungen.de ).
  • Do it yourself in the age of consumption. Values, notions of order and practices from the 1880s to the 1980s . (Habilitation). 2018 (to be published in 2020 under the title “Do it yourself. Another story of the age of consumption”).
  • Josef Ehmer (ed.): labor / leisure (=  Themenheft Studio History . no. 79 ). 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae - Reinhild Kreis MA - Recent History and Contemporary History - LMU Munich. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  2. ^ Résumé of Reinhild Kreis. (PDF) In: hi.uni-mannheim.de. University of Mannheim, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Reinhild Kreis: Places for America: German-American Institutes and America Houses in the Federal Republic since the 1960s (=  Transatlantic Historical Studies . Volume 44 ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10048-9 ( dnb.de [accessed on October 16, 2019]).
  4. ↑ VIEWPOINTS - Review of: Orte für Amerika - Issue 15 (2015), No. 3. Accessed October 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Double award for the dissertation of Dr. Reinhild Kreis. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Habilitations and appointments August 2018. October 7, 2019, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Historical Institute: Members. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Manuela Münch: Chair substitutions - October 2019. In: uni-due.de. University of Duisburg Essen, September 20, 2019, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Circle, Reinhild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda