Performing navigational and hydrographical expertise

In my PhD project, I explore how the sailing masters of the eighteenth-century Royal Navy staged and performed their navigational and hydrographical expertise in the attempt to retain their authority in this hotly contested arena. (Lena Moser)

Archaeological Practice as Imperialism

The dissertation project examines German excavation practice in the Ottoman Empire between 1870 and 1914 with a focus on social history. (Julia Tubbesing)

Emotional Travels

This PhD project analyzes tourism to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean in the 19^th-20^th centuries as a form of emotional practice, demonstrating how tourists and locals negotiated and experienced emotion through their behaviors on holiday. (Ruby Guyot)

The dissertation project examines colonial conceptions of belonging and alienness against the background of political refugee movements during the Age of Revolutions. It focuses on the interactions of refugees from revolution with the Jamaican host society in the urban context of the port city of Kingston. (Jannik Keindorf)

Federal Integration and Poor Relief in Reutlingen

The PhD project analyses the development of Reutlingen's poor relief system within the context of the German Empire's integrative legislation; the everyday life and experiences of relief recipients within this context are of particular interest for the project. (Thore Menze)