Sylvia Kesper-Biermann

Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (born November 16, 1967 in Siegen ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1987 to 1993, Kesper-Biermann studied Middle and Modern History and didactics in history / specialist journalism at the Universities of Siegen , Giessen and Bristol . She then worked until 1998 as a research assistant and scholarship holder at the DFG Graduate School “Medieval and Modern Statehood 10. – 19. Century ”at the University of Giessen. After completing her doctorate under Helmut Berding in 1998 , she worked as a research assistant in the DFG priority programs “Ideas as a social creative force in modern Europe” and “The population as a construct before, during and after the Third Reich” at the University of Bayreuth . In 2007 she completed her habilitation there under the supervision of Diethelm Klippel . Afterwards she was research assistant and then scientific coordinator of the DFG graduate college "Automatisms - Structure creation outside of planned processes in information technology, media and culture" at the University of Paderborn . From 2011 to 2016 she was a substitute professor at the Justus-Liebig University of Gießen, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the University of Cologne .

She has been Professor of Historical Educational Research at the University of Hamburg since 2016 .

Kesper-Biermann's main research interests are historical educational research, transnational educational spaces, school history, comics and history, comics as educational media, the history of torture and human rights, the history of emotions, the history of criminal law and crime, and the history of population sciences and population policy.

Publications

Monographs

• Unity and law. Criminal legislation and criminal law experts in Germany from the beginning of the 19th century to the Reich Criminal Code of 1871 , Frankfurt a. M .: Vittorio Klostermann 2009 (= Studies on European Legal History , 245), ISBN 978-3-465-04078-1 .
• State and school in Kurhessen 1813–1866 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2001 (= Critical Studies in History , 144), ISBN 3-525-35950-0 .

Editing

• Transnational Education (TNE). Teaching and Learning across Borders , special issue of the Transnational Social Review. A Social Work Journal 8 (2018), Issue 2 (with Maggi Leung, Vanaja Nethi and Thusinta Somalingam).
• Between Passion and Senses? Perspectives on Emotions and Law , special issue from Interdisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology 6 (2015), Issue 2 (with Dagmar Ellerbrock).
• Intertwined pasts. History comics in Europe, Asia and America , special issue by Comparativ. Journal for global history and comparative social research 24 (2014), issue 3 (with Bettina Severin-Barboutie).
• Population in Science and Politics of the 19th and 20th Centuries , Munich 2012 (with Esteban Mauerer and Diethelm Klippel).
• Honor and justice. Concepts of honor, defamation and defense of honor from the late Middle Ages to the modern age , Magdeburg 2011 (with Alexandra Ortmann and Ulrike Ludwig).
• Regions in the German world. Educational spaces and transfer processes in the 19th century , Bad Heilbrunn 2011 (with Eckhardt Fuchs and Christian Ritzi).
• Experts and expert knowledge in criminal justice from early modern times to modern times , Leipzig 2008 (with Alexander Kästner).
• Crime in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Social, legal, philosophical and literary aspects , Wiesbaden 2007 (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen , 114) (with Diethelm Klippel).
• The internationalization of criminal law and crime policy (1870–1930). Germany in comparison. Conference at the Center Marc Bloch , Franco-German Research Center for Social Sciences in Berlin on February 17 and 18, 2005 , Berlin 2007 (= Contemporary Legal History , Dept. 2: Forum Legal Contemporary History , 16) (with Petra Overath).

Web links

• Website at the University of Hamburg
• Literature by and about Sylvia Kesper-Biermann in the catalog of the German National Library