Tübingen School of Education (TüSE)
Dr. Sebastian Koch
is a staff member at the TüSE.

As an academic assistant, Sebastian Koch is responsible for research and promoting young talent.

Together with the TüSE management, he coordinates and organises the pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral programmes at TüSE (WiNaLehramt, TüNaProDoc and PostdocTEIFUN).

In this context, he is also responsible for the administrative office of the postdoctoral programme ‘Education and AI in the 21st Century. Technology-supported innovations in subject-specific teaching settings’ (PostdocTEIFUN). Furthermore, he is entrusted with the operational management of the TüSE award procedure for outstanding qualification theses.

since 10/2023
Research assistant at TüSE

Areas of work: Research and promotion of young talent

10/2021–09/2023
Subject specialist for philosophy and history

in the Humanities and Cultural Studies team at the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn

02/2021–06/2021
Administrative assistant and team leader at the district office/health department in Böblingen

in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021
Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Modern History from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Title of the dissertation: ‘Identity crises after the end of the British Empire. On cultural reorientation in Canada, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand’

10/2020–01/2021
Freelance employee at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 923 ‘Threatened Orders’

Content design for a digital exhibition on the topic of ‘End of Empire’

2020
Doctoral scholarship

the FAZIT Foundation

2015–2021
Doctoral studies

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2015–2019
Research assistant

at SFB 923 ‘Threatened Orders’ in project area G04 ‘End of Empire. Re-ordering in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1960–1980’

2015
First state examination

for teaching at secondary schools

2012–2015
Student assistant

in the Department of Medieval German Studies at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Chair: Prof. Dr. Annette Gerok-Reiter)

2012–2014
Tutor

at the Seminar for Modern History at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Chair: Prof. Dr. Ewald Frie)

2011–2015
Scholarship holder

as part of the Germany Scholarship, awarded by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for outstanding academic achievements

2011
Internship

at the Documentation Centre of the Grafeneck Memorial Site

2009–2015
Teacher training

in German and history at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen

Publications

Monographs

Essays

  • Biculturalism, multiculturalism and indigeneity as a strategy of memoria. Canada and Australia defining themselves in times of threat, in: Renate Dürr (Hg.): Threatened Knowledge. Practices of Knowing and Ignoring from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, London, New York 2022 (Knowledge Societies in History), S. 152-178.
  • [Essay] Wie 'närrisch' ist Jakob van Hoddis' Visionarr, in: Tintenklex. Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Nachwuchswissenschaftler 1 (2017), S. 62-70

Digital exhibition

Together with Miriam Adler and Sabrina Jost: End of Empire. Virtual exhibition ‘Bedrohte Ordnungen’ (Threatened Orders), available at: https://bedrohte-ordnungen.de/cases/end-of-empire/.