Dr. Sabine Hanke

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Kontakt

Seminar für Neuere Geschichte
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen

sabine.hankespam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Sprechstunden im Wintersemester 2024/25:

Sprechstunden finden im WS 2024/25 nach vorheriger Vereinbarung und ggf. per Zoom statt. Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich vorher per E-Mail.

Dienstzimmer: Hegelbau, Erdgeschoss, Raum 028

Vita

3/2021-9/2023

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Postdoktorand

4-10/2022

Elternzeit

9/2016-1/2021

University of Sheffield, PhD Candidate

Thesis: National identity and cultural difference in the British and German circus, 1920-1945, supervised by Prof Mary Vincent, Dr Esme Cleall and Dr Julia Moses, formerly Prof Bob Moore and Dr Dina Gusejnova, examined by Dr Moritz Föllmer and Dr Colin Reid, PhD awarded in January 2021)

2013-2016

Master of Arts in Geschichte, Technische Universität Dresden

2015: internship German Historical Institute Washington, D.C.
2015: internship/research Leo Baeck Institute, New York City

2009-2013

Bachelor of Arts in Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie, Technische Universität Dresden

2011-2012

Universitatea de Lucian Blaga, Rumänien

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

Sabine Hanke earned her PhD in History from the University of Sheffield, UK, in January 2021. Her dissertation examines the national and imperial dimensions of the modern British and German circus during the interwar period, focusing on how cultural practices both reflected and shaped knowledge about nationhood and empire. Currently, she is preparing her first monograph, based on her thesis, for publication with Manchester University Press, forthcoming in January 2025.

Before joining the University of Tübingen, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Section on Global Mobility, spanning the 18th and 20th centuries, where she investigated transregional entanglements while also teaching courses in Modern History.

In her current project, she deepens her engagement with Human-Animal Studies by exploring the role of birds of paradise in the colonial context of New Guinea throughout the long nineteenth century. This project investigates how scientific knowledge, aesthetic practices, and economic interests intertwined, shaping global debates on conservation, commodification, and colonial power.

Sabine Hanke is passionate about public history and is committed to collaborative work with museums and public initiatives to critically engage with postcolonial histories and their lasting impact on contemporary society. Her most recent cooperation with the Zentrum für Erinnerungskultur focused on the colonial legacy in Duisburg.

Forschung

Forschungsinteressen

Human-Animal Studies and Environmental History
Modern European Colonial and Imperial History and its entanglements
Popular Culture Studies
History of knowledge and science

Stipendien

3-year full-time scholarship for PhD, Arts and Humanities Faculty, University of Sheffield, 2016/17-2019/20.

Publikationen

Monographien

Worlds of the Ring: Nation and Empire in the British and German Circus, 1918-1945, (manuscript in preparation, 2021, forthcoming with Manchester University Press).

Aufsätze (peer-reviewed)

Imperialismus in der Provinz: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Zirkus in Deutschland (ca. 1918–1945), GG 49.3 (2023) [2024], pp. 407-433. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2023.49.3.407)
Between Defiance and Control: Wild Animal Performance in the Interwar Period, Early Popular Visual Culture 21.3 (2023), pp. 383-396. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2205573)
Performing National Identity in the Interwar Period: The Sarrasani Circus in Germany and Latin America, New Theatre Quarterly 37.2 (2021), pp. 190-201. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X21000063)

Rezensionen

Review of Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Cambridge, 2021), Sehepunkte 23 (2023), Nr. 2 (February 2023), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2023/02/37744.html.
Animal worlds. Joint review of Diana Donald, Women against cruelty: Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain (Manchester, 2020) and Thomas Almeroth-Williams, City of beasts: How animals shaped Georgian London (Manchester, 2019), Reviews in History 2414 (September 2020), https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2414.

Populärwissenschaftliche Beiträge

Sarrasanis Völker: Menschenschauen im Zirkus, in Christina Ludwig, Andrea Rudolph, Thomas Steller et al. (ed.), Menschen anschauen: Selbst- und Fremdinszenierungen in Dresdner Menschenausstellungen (Dresden, 2023), pp. 96-103.
Salman Schocken, in Sabine Wolfram (ed.), Archäologie eines Kaufhauses: Konzern, Bauherr, Architekt: Das Buch zur Dauerausstellung (Berlin, 2016), pp. 60-91, together with Tomke Hinrichs.
“Wir wollten sie echt und leibhaftig haben haben”: American Indians im Zirkus Sarrasani 1906-1945, Dresdner Hefte. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte 2.126 (2016), pp. 51-58.
Salman Schocken – “My library is my autobiography”, Sächsische Heimatblätter 4 (2014), pp. 396-403, together with Antje Borrmann and Tomke Hinrichs.

Blogs

Wildkatzen in der Manege: Das Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis im Zirkus, KWI-Blog (October 2021), https://blog.kulturwissenschaften.de/wildkatzen-in-der-manege/.

Tagungsberichte

Tagungsbericht „Manegenkünste: Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell“, University of Marburg, 17-19 November 2016:
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-125610
Workshopbericht „Of Species and Specimens: Tracing Non-Human Histories in Times of Imperial Expansion”, 18-19 July 2024, together with Anne Sophie Overkamp: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145014.

organisierte Tagungen und Workshops

18-19 July 2024: International Workshop „Of Species and Specimens: Tracing Nonhuman Histories in Times of Imperial Expansion”, University of Tübingen, together with Anne Sophie Overkamp, link to workshop report here.
11 May 2018: International Conference “Circus and Beyond: A Conference on History and Popular Culture”, University of Sheffield, together with Giulia Quaggio, Apurba Chatterjee, Rachel C. Garratt and Sarah Hess, link to conference here.

Lehrveranstaltungen

Wintersemester 2024/25

Proseminar

Eine Wissenschaft im Dienste des Kolonialismus? Die Erforschung der Inselwelten des Südpazifiks im 19. Jahrhundert
Mo., 12-15 Uhr c.t., mit Tutorium. Ort: Wilhelmstr. 26, Hörsaal 11
Beginn: 14.10.2024

Übung zum wissenschaftlichen Lesen und Schreiben

Vom Aussterben bedroht: Naturschutz und Öffentlichkeit, 1870er bis 1930er Jahre
Mo., 16-18 Uhr c.t., Ort: Keplerstraße 2 (ehem. OSA), Seminarraum 002
Beginn: 14.10.2024