Ulrike Lindner

Ulrike Lindner (* 1968 ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1989 she studied history, German and political science in Munich and Oxford ( St John's College ). In 1995 she obtained a Masters in Modern History, Medieval History and Modern German Literature at the University of Munich ; Topic of the work: "Housewives from middle-class circles in the 1950s and 1960s in the Federal Republic of Germany". In 1996 she received a doctoral grant from the German National Academic Foundation . From 1997 to 2001 she was a research assistant at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . In 1998 she received a grant from the German Historical Institute London for a research stay in Great Britain. In 2001 he received his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the thesis: “Health policy in the post-war period. Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany in comparison ”. In 2001 she received the award from the German Historical Institute in London for her doctoral thesis. From 2001 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. From 2005 to 2006 she had a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay in Cambridge ; Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall , Cambridge University . In 2007 she did research in South Africa and Namibia , on a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2007 she made a research stay in London , on a grant from the German Historical Institute in London. In 2008 she was a Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute . From October 2009 to February 2013 she worked at the Faculty of History at Bielefeld University . After her habilitation in March 2010, summer semester 2012, she was professor for modern and contemporary history at the University of Mannheim ( Johannes Paulmann ). In May 2012, she turned down the professorship for contemporary history at the University of Innsbruck . From March 2013 she will be professor for the history of Europe and European colonialism in Cologne . In 2016 she had a fellowship at the International Morphomata College . From March to April 2019 she taught as a visiting professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris .

Her main research interests are European colonial history of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of colonization and decolonization of Africa, comparative empire history, history of European social policy in the 20th century, gender history, medical history and global history, comparison and interdependence, post-colonial approaches.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Merith Niehuss : Doctors - patients. Women in German and British Healthcare in the 20th Century . Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-15701-5 .
• Postwar Health Policy. Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany in comparison . Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-20014-3 .
• as editor with Olaf Kaltmeier and Angelika Epple : Entangled histories. Reflecting on concepts of coloniality and postcoloniality . Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-576-5 .
• Colonial encounters. Germany and Great Britain as imperial powers in Africa 1880–1914 . Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 3-593-39485-5 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner