Zeitgeschichte

Dr. Martin Deuerlein

Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact

Mail: Seminar für Zeitgeschichte, Wilhelmstr. 36, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany
Office: Wilhelmstr. 12, room 306
+49 7071 / 29 72 997
martin.deuerleinspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
Academia.edu

Office Hours

Please contact me by email.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2025
Postdoctoral Researche

at the Institute for Contemporary History (Seminar für Zeitgeschichte), Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen

2018 - 2025
Lecturer (Akademischer Rat a.Z.)

at the Institute for Contemporary History (Seminar für Zeitgeschichte), Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen

2020
Dr. phil. in Modern History, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (grade: summa cum laude)

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa (Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Dissertation published as: Das Zeitalter der Interdependenz. Globales Denken und internationale Politik in den langen 1970er Jahren, Göttingen 2020.

2018
Visiting Scholar

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

2016 - 2018
Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

at the Seminar für Zeitgeschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Jan Eckel)

2016
Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

at the Chair for International History and Historical Peace Research, University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Jan Eckel)

2015 - 2016
Doctoral fellow

at the Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz

2011 - 2015
Doctoral fellow

at the Sonderforschungsbereich 923 “Bedrohte Ordnungen” [Collaborative Research Centre 923 “Threatened Orders”], Tübingen 

2010
Magister Artium, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Thesis „Threat and Opportunity: Die Krise der Supermächte-Détente in den späten 1970er Jahren“

2007 - 2010
Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2003 - 2010
Modern History and Political Science

at the Unitersity of Tübingen, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain and Yale University, New Haven

Research

Research Interests

  • History of knowledge and politics of Indigeneity
  • Global intellectual history and the history of the social sciences (including globalization theory and global thought)
  • International and transnational history, esp. of the Cold War
  • Soviet history, with a focus on the Brezhnev era
  • History of the (global) present

Research Project (Habilitation)

Strategies of Indigeneity – a History of Knowledge and Politics, ca. 1834–1982

The research project historicizes the concept of “indigeneity” and analyses political strategies that have built on this concept between the 1830s and the 1980s. In current academic and political discourse, three layers of meaning are attached to the term “indigenous”: At medium range, the term is employed for colonized groups that used to be designated as “natives” in European parlance. In a more specific sense, “Indigenous”, mostly spelled with a capital I, designates groups that represent the descendants of the first known inhabitants of a territory who have become marginalized in settler colonial contexts. A close relationship to land, a traditional lifestyle, and a sustainable relationship with nature are features commonly associated with this understanding of “Indigenous”. In its broadest meaning, in contrast, the term designates the descendants of the first inhabitants of a territory independent of a specific colonial situation. This meaning can be expressed in different terms such as “aboriginal inhabitants” and can also be applied to majority populations and historical groups in Europe. 

The project reconstructs the genealogy of current understandings of the term, analyses how meanings vary across time and space, and traces their interaction with political strategies. Drawing on case studies from Britain, Western and Central Europe, and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), it examines how knowledge about “indigenous” groups was produced, identifies the assumptions and interests that shaped these world-making projects and the strategies built on them, and explores their political, legal, and cultural consequences.

Concluded Doctoral Dissertation

Concluded Doctoral Dissertation:

The Age of Interdependence. Global Thought and International Politics in the Long 1970s.

Published with Wallstein, 2020. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Gestwa

This project examinee diagnoses of growing cross-border connections, widely discussed as “interdependence” from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. It shows that as the social sciences took shape, a distinct “high modern” conception of interdependence emerged that explained transnational entanglements as the outcome of social evolution, differentiation, and the division of labour.

The project examined diagnoses of growing cross-border connections and entanglements, which were largely discussed under the heading of “interdependence” during the period of “high modernity” from the last third of the 19th century to the 1980s. It demonstrated that with the establishment of the social sciences in the late 19th century, a specifically “high modern” understanding of interdependence emerged. It framed the growth of transnational entanglements as a consequence of social evolution, differentiation, and the division of labour. From the 1960s, this framework came under strain, as a new surge in entanglements, particularly in the economic sphere, and epistemological shifts unsettled earlier certainties.
The interdependence debate had lost its optimistic certainty, while events such as the 1973 oil crisis clearly demonstrated the political relevance of this issue. For the first time, an explicit debate on the correct “strategy of interdependence” emerged, in which the term was used by such opposing actors as Henry Kissinger and representatives of the G-77 to legitimise their respective positions.
This combination of rising political relevance and waning explanatory authority of established interpretations fuelled diagnoses of a “crisis of interdependence” in the 1970s. From the early 1990s onwards, however, the concept of “globalisation” established (supposed) new certainties for approximately two decades. The project thus contributes not only to the historicization of globalism, global thought, and corresponding terminology, but also to a history of knowledge and ideas of globality.

Fellowships and Awards

Fellowships

  • 2024: Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
  • 2022: Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, London
  • 2018: Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scholar
  • 2015 – 2016: Fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz
  • 2010 – 2013: PhD-Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
  • 2007 – 2010: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Grants and Awards

  • 04/2020: Best dissertation award by the Section for International History, German Historians’ Association   
  • 09/2014: Best Paper Award, Sixth Annual European Summer School on Cold War History, Trient
  • 2009 – 2012: Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Cambridge, UK: fees-only, PhD (declined, value 16,695£)
  • 2009 – 2012: European Trust, University of Cambridge, UK: living expenses, PhD (declined, value 24,000£)
  • 10/2010: Award of the „Förderverein Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen for the best M.A. thesis 2009/10

Publications

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5576-4549

 

Monograph

  • Das Zeitalter der Interdependenz. Globales Denken und internationale Politik in den langen 1970er Jahren. Göttingen, 2020 [The Age of Interdependence. Global Thought and International Politics in the Long 1970s]. Homepage
    Online-Access

Edited Volumes

Journal Articles

Articles in Edited Volumes

Reviews, Short Articles