Susanne Lachenicht

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Susanne Lachenicht (born June 10, 1971 in Starnberg ) is a German historian . Since 2009 she has held the Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Bayreuth .

Life

Susanne Lachenicht studied history and German at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne . She completed her studies with a Maîtrise d'Histoire and a Magister Artium in 1995 and 1996 respectively. In 2002 she received her doctorate in Heidelberg "summa cum laude" with a thesis on the press of the German Jacobins in Alsace . After receiving a doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation , she was invited to the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland as a visiting scholar in the final phase of her doctorate . Together with this research institute, in 2004 she succeeded in acquiring a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship from the European Commission for her habilitation project "Huguenots in Europe and North America. Migration and Integration in the Early Modern Era". In 2003 Susanne Lachenicht received a scholarship from the European Enlightenment Research Center in Potsdam, 2006 from the Herzog August Library , 2007 visiting fellow at All Souls College , Oxford. Between 2006 and 2008 her habilitation project was also funded by a research grant from the German Research Foundation. a. in London, Paris, New York, Oxford, Geneva, Zurich and Berlin. In January 2009 she completed her habilitation at the University of Hamburg. In March 2009 she was appointed lecturer for European History at the University of Durham , and in June 2009 she was appointed to the Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Bayreuth.

Research and international science management

In addition to her fellowship at All Souls College, Susanne Lachenicht was invited to the Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail as a visiting professor in 2009, to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 2010, and to the Université d'Angers in 2012. In 2009 she founded the Summer Academy of Atlantic History (SAAH) together with Lauric Henneton , of which she is a member of the Steering Committee. From 2012 to 2014 she was president of the European Early American Studies Association (EEASA), from 2011 to 2015 she was vice-president of the Society for Overseas History (GÜSG). She is a member of the governing body of the Bayreuth Institute for American Studies (BIFAS), the Advisory and Editorial Boards of the Journal for Early American History (Leiden: Brill), Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History (New York: Oxford University Press), which from 2016 published Revue d'Histoire du Protestantisme (Paris), by Diasporas. Histoire et Société (Toulouse: PUM) and editor of the series “Mediengeschichte” at NOMOS-Verlag. Since 2007 she has been a specialist editor at sehepunkte, where she is responsible for the areas of French early modern history and Atlantic history.

Her research interests in the European and Atlantic history of the early modern period include the area of ​​migration, the history of religion and religious minorities, media and press history (18th - 20th centuries), cultural transfer, transnationality and comparative literature, the age of revolutions and diachronic risk research . In addition to her qualification papers, her work on nationalism and cosmopolitanism and comparative diachronic diaspora research have become important.

Fonts

Monographs:

  • Information and propaganda. The press of German Jacobins in Alsace (1791–1800) (= Ancien régime, Enlightenment and Revolution. Vol. 37). Munich 2004 (dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2002; review ).
  • Huguenots in Europe and North America. Migration and Integration in the Early Modern Era. Frankfurt am Main / New York 2010 (habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg, 2008; review ).
  • The French Revolution (= history compact ). Darmstadt 2012.

Essays:

  • Huguenot Immigrants and the Formation of National Identities. In: The Historical Journal. Vol. 50 (2007), H. 2, pp. 309-331.
  • A la découverte de l'Européen? Perceptions de l'Autre et identités au Canada et en Acadie (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles). In: Francia . Vol. 35 (2008), H. 2, pp. 551-563.
  • Migrations. Entre mémoire (s) et “culture of remembrance”. XVIIIe – XIXe siècles: le cas des huguenots. In: Francia . Vol. 37 (2010), H. 2, pp. 425-434.
  • Musées huguenots et lieux de mémoire en Allemagne et dans les Îles Britanniques. In: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme français. Vol. 157 (2011), H. 4, pp. 583-596.

Editions:

  • Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America, 6th - 21st century (= Atlantic Cultural Studies. Vol. 4). Hamburg 2007 ( review ).
  • with Guido Braun: Les États allemands et les huguenots. Politique d'immigration et processus d'intégration (= Paris historical studies. Vol. 82). Munich 2007.
  • with Kirsten Heinsohn : Diaspora Identities. Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present. Frankfurt am Main / New York / Chicago 2009 ( review , review ).
  • Europeans Engaging the Atlantic. Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800. Frankfurt / Main, New York, Chicago 2014.

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