Daniel Rothenburg
Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: Hegelbau, 2nd floor, room 205
07071/29-78508
Fax: 07071/29-5874
daniel.rothenburg@uni-tuebingen.de
Hours: By appointment
CV
Since October 2020
Assistant Professor
at the Department of Modern History, University of Tübingen
2020
PhD
at the University of Tübingen. Thesis: “Too Much Water. Irrigation, Salinity, and Communities in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. An Environmental History” • Walter-Witzenmann-Award of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Doctoral Award of the University of Tübingen
2019 – 2020
Teaching Associate
at the Department of Modern History, University of Tübingen
2015 – 2019
Research Associate
at the Collaborative Research Center 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress”, University of Tübingen
2015 – 2020
PhD candidate
in Contemporary History, University of Tübingen
2015
First State Examination
Thesis: "Australischer High Modernism. Merkmale des Hydro-Engineering-Diskurses anhand des Hume-Staudamms" Advancement Award for Junior Academics of the Association for Australian Studies • Advancement Award for Junior Academics of the Association for Australian Studies
2011 – 2015
Student Assistant
at the Department of Contemporary History and the CRC 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress”, University of Tübingen
2008 – 2015
Study
of History and Philosophy at the universities Mannheim and Tübingen
2005 – 2008
Abitur
at Kolping-Kolleg Stuttgart
2002 – 2005
Apprenticeship
as Industrial Business Management Assistant
24. March 1985
Born
in Stuttgart
Research
Priorities
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History of Science, Technology, and the Environment
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Australian History
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History of Ideas
Publications
Essays
- Too Much Water: How Salinisation Transformed Australia’s ‘Food Bowl,’ 1945-2017; in: International Review of Environmental History 2021 (accepted/in print).
- "The Majesty of Concrete“ Hume Dam and Australian Modernity, in: Australian Studies Journal 31 (2017), pp. 101-113. https://australienstudien.org/zeitschrift-fuer-australienstudien-31-2017/.
- Die „Höhere Maschinenbauschule Eßlingen“ im Dritten Reich. Schritte der Gleichschaltung zur Integration in den NS-Staat; in: Ewald Frie (Hrsg.), Die Geschichte der Hochschule Esslingen. Esslingen am Neckar 2014, pp. 154-169.
Conference Proceedings and Reviews
- Frank Jacob: Gallipoli; in: Historische Zeitschrift (accepted/in print).
- Nach dem Konstruktivismus? Aktuelle Strategien der Kontextualisierung in der Neuen Ideengeschichte. 1st - 2nd October 2014, Tübingen, in H-Soz-Kult, 10.01.2015, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-5762.