Englisches Seminar

Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder

Associate Professor

Contact

nicole.hirschfelderspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
Phone: (+49) (0)7071-29-74566
Office Hours: per e-mail appointment
Room: 507, Wilhelmstr. 50, 72074 Tübingen

Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder is currently on leave. Her e-mail address remains valid. However, for any questions or concerns regarding their studies, students should refer to the Helpdesk and the other student advisors.

Nicole Hirschfelder studied at Goethe University (MA), the University of Wisconsin (graduate studies, MA), and Yale University (PhD research scholar program). She completed her dissertation at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. In 2014, she published an edited version of her PhD thesis as her first book titled, Oppression as Process: The Case of Bayard Rustin. The working title of her second book project is “The Gaze and Catastrophe.” Nicole Hirschfelder was a project leader and an associated member of the collaborative research center 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress.” She is an Alumna of Athene which is part of the excellence initiative of the University of Tübingen, an Alumna of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fulbright and a member of the Figurational Research Network and the Matariki Risk Humanities Network. In fall 2016 and spring 2019, she was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland.

Academic Career

since
Associate Professor

University of Tübingen

2019
Visiting professor

University of Maryland

2016
Visiting professor

University of Maryland

2014
PhD in American Studies

University of Tübingen
“Oppression as a Process: The Case of Bayard Rustin”

2007
M.A. in American Studies

Goethe University Frankfurt
“Fields of Power: A Sociological Approach to Quakerism and Politics in the USA”

Research Interests

  • Figurational Sociology
  • Social and Environmental Catastrophes
  • The Gaze
  • 19th Century and the Gilded Age
  • Social Movements (19th century- today)
  • Bayard Rustin

Teaching

Winter Semester 2021/2022

Publications

  • with Rebecca Hahn and Anya Heise-von der Lippe. “Wissenschafft: Zur feministischen Praxis im universitären Kontext.” In: Gero Bauer, Maria Kechaja, Sebastian Engelmann, Lean Haug (eds.): Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021, pp. 79-98.
  • “Deconstructing the (Idea of a White-Dominated) German Gaze: Specific Challenges for Germans and (Their) Scholarship on the Civil Rights Movement.” In: Contemporary Church History, 1/2020, pp. 37-58.
  • Oppression as Process: The Case of Bayard Rustin. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2014.

Complete List of Publications

Conference Presentations and Talks

  • “Von #metoo bis Anti-Feminismus: Bestandsaufnahme eines (anti-) feministischen Zeitalters,” Talk, Fridtjof-Nansen-Akademie für politische Bildung im WBZ, Ingelheim am Rhein, April 2021.
  • “Was darf man(n) noch sagen? Zu aktuellen Genderdebatten und Cancel Culture,” Talk, Volkshochschule, Reutlingen, March 2021.
  • “Weiße Solidarität und Black Lives Matter,” Talk, TANG e.V., Freiburg, February 2021.
  • “Black Lives Matter, Covid-19 and the Challenges of (White) Solidarity in a Globalized World,” Symposium: From Racial Polarization to Black Liberation, Freiburg, February 2021.
  • with Astrid Franke “Das Virus bedroht alle ungleich! Race, Class, Gender und Age im Kontext von COVID-19,” Presentation, SFB 923, Tübingen, February 2021.
  • with Astrid Franke “Zur Qual (Nach) der Wahl: Ein (Rück-)Blick auf die Präsidentschaftswahlen, den Sturm auf das Capitol und Trumps Rolle in den USA,” Online Seminar, Frankenwarte, Würzburg, February 2021.
  • with Esther Earbin “Anti-Schwarzer Rassismus und Polizeigewalt in Deutschland und den USA: Part III,” Zoom Live Event with Esther Earbin, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Tübingen, February 2021.
  • Book Launch Kinship and Collective Action, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Tübingen, February 2021.
  • “Zur Diskussion um den Begriff ‘Rasse’ im Grundgesetz aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Persepctive,” Talk, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, January 2021.
  • “Jetzt erst recht?! Verändert die #metoo Bewegung das gesellschaftliche Miteinander?” Talk, Frankenwarte, Würzburg, January 2021.

Complete List of Conference Presentations and Talks

Current Project

The interdisciplinary network brings together 14 scholars of American Studies, History, Sociology, Theology, Literary and Cultural Studies to work on Black freedom struggles, understood as the long Civil Rights Movement (CRM), from a decidedly transnational perspective. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) the network seeks to establish bridges, across and beyond the Atlantic, various disciplines and perspectives, including different eras with the goal of contextualizing the CRM in its historical pasts, present, and outlook for the future.

Completed Project

Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder has been an associated member of the collaborative research center 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress”.