Roland Wenzlhuemer

Roland Wenzlhuemer (born March 20, 1976 in Grieskirchen ) is an Austrian historian .

Life

He studied history and communication studies at the University of Salzburg , where he in 2002 with a thesis on the agro-economic reconstruction of the British colony of Ceylon late 19th century when Norbert Ortmayr and Robert Hoffman for Dr. phil. PhD . Following his community service , he worked as a research assistant at the Center for the Modern Orient in Berlin and at the Great Britain Center at Humboldt University . From autumn 2008 he headed a junior research group at the newly established Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University . From this group of researchers, among others, a work to the development and socio-cultural significance was a global telegraph network in the 19th century, with whom he at the Faculty of Philosophy in Heidelberg in 2011 habilitation was. In 2012 Roland Wenzlhuemer received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation . He was visiting professor at the University of Basel in 2013/14 and was offered a professorship at the University of Innsbruck before taking over the professorship for modern history with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries at the History Department of Heidelberg University in the 2014/15 winter semester. Since the winter semester 2017/18 he has been teaching as a professor for modern and contemporary history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

The main focus of his work and research is on colonial and global history .

Works (selection)

• From coffee to tea cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900. An economic and social history (= Brill's Indological library . Volume 29). Brill, Leiden et al. 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16361-4 (also dissertation, Salzburg 2002).
• as editor: Counterfactual thinking as a scientific method. Counterfactual thinking as a scientific method (= historical social research . Number 128). Center for Historical Social Research, Cologne 2009, OCLC 552312064 .
• as editor: Global communication. Telecommunication and global flows of information in the late 19th and early 20th century. Global communication. Telecommunications and global information flows in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (= Historical social research . Number 131). Center for Historical Social Research, Cologne 2010, OCLC 935375958 .
• as editor with Christiane Brosius: Transcultural turbulences. Towards a multi-sited reading of image flows (= Transcultural research - Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context ). Springer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-642-18392-1 .
• Connecting the nineteenth-century world. The telegraph and globalization . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-02528-8 (also habilitation thesis, Heidelberg 2011).
• with Monica Juneja : The Modern Age. 1789-1914 (= UTB . Volume 3082). UVK-Verl.-Ges., Konstanz 2013, ISBN 3-8252-3082-1 .
• as editor with Isabella Löhr: The nation state and beyond. Governing globalization processes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (= Transcultural research - Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context ). Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-642-32933-0 .
• Write global history. An introduction in 6 episodes (= UTB . Volume 4765). UVK-Verl.-Ges., Konstanz 2017, ISBN 3-8252-4765-1 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer
• academia.edu
• Munich Center for Global History