Kerstin Brückweh

Kerstin Brückweh (born in Hannover, Germany) is a historian with a focus on German and British modern and contemporary history. She is a professor in economic and social history at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology in Berlin, Germany.[1]

Career

Brückweh received her PhD from the History Department of Bielefeld University in 2005. Her dissertation, Mordlust: Serienmorde, Gewalt und Emotionen im 20. Jahrhundert (Mordlust: Serial Murders, Violence and Emotions in the 20th Century), was published by Campus-Verlag in 2006.[2][3][4] From 2007 to 2013, she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute London.[5] She completed her habilitation thesis at the University of Tübingen in 2013 with the work Menschen zählen: Wissensproduktion durch britische Volkszählungen und Umfragen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis ins digitale Zeitalter (Britain Counts: Knowledge Production in Censuses and Survey Research from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age). It was published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg in 2015.[6][7]

In 2016–2020, Brückweh led the research group “The Longue Durée of 1989/90: Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany” at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam in Germany.[8] In October 2020, parts of the project were published by Ch. Links Verlag under the project’s German name, Die lange Geschichte der “Wende”.[9][10] The project also won the WISPoP – Potsdamer Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation (Potsdam Prize for Scholarly Communication) in 2020.[11]

Brückweh works at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology as a professor of economic and social history.[1] Previously, she worked at the University of Trier and the University of Duisburg-Essen, and was a fellow at the Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt.[12][13][14] Prior to her studies, she also worked as bookseller for three years and, following her PhD, she was an editor in the fields of politics, economics, and history at Stark Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG for two years.

Selected bibliography

References

  1. "Prof. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh BHT Berlin". prof.bht-berlin.de. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  2. "Mordlust, ein Buch von Kerstin Brückweh - Campus Verlag". www.campus.de. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  3. Eghigian, Greg (1 July 2009). "Mordlust: Serienmorde, Gewalt, und Emotionen im 20. Jahrhundert". German History. 27 (3): 463. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghp054 via Oxford Academic.
  4. Carter Hett, Benjamin (September 2008). "Review: [Untitled]". Central European History. 41: 531–533. JSTOR 20457382 via JSTOR.
  5. "Our Team". www.ghil.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  6. Brückweh, Kerstin (2015-11-13). Menschen zählen (in German). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi:10.1515/9783110407853. ISBN 978-3-11-040785-3.
  7. Fenton, Alex (December 2016). "History of the British Census - Kerstin Brückweh, Menschen zählen. Wissensproduktion durch britische Volkszählungen und Umfragen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis ins digitale Zeitalter [Britain Counts: Knowledge Production in Censuses and Survey Research from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age], (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015)". European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie. 57 (3): 480–484. doi:10.1017/S0003975616000229. S2CID 232174065 via Cambridge Core.
  8. "The Longue Durée of 1989/90. Regime Change and Everyday Life in East Germany". The Centre for Contemporary History. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
  9. "Ch. Links Verlag | Die lange Geschichte der »Wende« - Geschichtswissenschaft im Dialog". www.christoph-links-verlag.de. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  10. Brückweh, Kerstin; Brusius, Mirjam (May 2021). "Home Sweet Home: A Schriftgespräch on Doing the Long History of 1989" (PDF). German Historical Institute London Bulletin. XLIII: 66–86.
  11. "Historiker-Team gewinnt den "WISPoP – Potsdamer Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation" 2020 | WIS Wissenschaftsetage im Bildungsforum Potsdam". www.wis-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  12. "Kerstin Brückweh, Autor auf FZE". FZE (in German). Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  13. "Kerstin Brückweh". The Centre for Contemporary History. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  14. Erfurt, Universität. "Brückweh, Kerstin". Universität Erfurt. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
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