Stefanie Gänger
Stefanie Gänger is a German historian .
Life
From 2003 to 2006 she did a BA in European Cultural History at the Universities of Augsburg and Seville . From 2006 to 2007 she obtained the MPhil Historical Studies from the History Faculty of Cambridge University . In 2011 she completed her doctorate in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge in the Department of World History. In 2011 she was a DAAD- funded postdoctoral fellow at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin . From 2011 to 2013 she was a research assistant at the research center for the Leibniz Prize “Global Processes” at the University of Konstanz . From 2013 to 2019 she was Junior Professor of Iberian and Latin American History at the Historical Institute and the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne . Since January 2019 she has been co-director of the research center for the Balzan Prize Rethinking Global History of Jürgen Osterhammel . Since April 2019 she has been teaching as a professor of modern history at the Department of History at Heidelberg University . Her main focus in research and teaching lies in recent world and global history, in the history of knowledge and science, and in the medical and environmental history of the "long" 19th century.
Guest stays and scholarships (selection)
- Prize winner of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation 2019
- Visiting professor at the University of Tucumán, Argentina 2014
- Johannes- Zilkens PhD award from the Association of Friends of the German National Academic Foundation 2012
- Visiting researcher at Department II (with Lorraine Daston ) of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2010
- Visiting scholar at the Department of History, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia 2009
- Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , 2005–2011
Fonts (selection)
- Relics of the past. The collecting and study of pre-Columbian antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837–1911 . Oxford 2014, ISBN 0-19-968769-2 .
- as editor with Boris Barth and Niels P. Peterson: Globalgeschichten. Inventory and perspectives . Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-593-50171-0 .
- as editor with Irina Podgorny and Philip L. Kohl : Nature and antiquities. The making of archeology in the Americas . Tucson 2014, ISBN 978-0-8165-3112-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Interview with Stefanie Gänger. geschichte-studieren-in-hd.de, December 9, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ganger, Stefanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |