Dr. Andrea Wiegeshoff

Senior Occasional Lecturer (Privatdozent)

Contact information

andrea.wiegeshoff@staff 1 Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6
35032 Marburg
W|02 Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute (Room: 03C05 resp. +3C05)

Dr. Andrea Wiegeshoff

  • Research Interests

    19th/20th-century history of health medicine and disease/epidemics

    American and British imperial history

    History of diplomacy and international relations

  • Habilitation Project

    Global Epidemics, Expanding Empires, and a Remote Island. A History of the Policies on Epidemics in the British Empire in the 19th Century

     

    This research project focuses on the various reactions to threats posed by epidemics within the British Empire during the nineteenth century. It explores ideas and practices guiding “policies on epidemics”. Against the backdrop of increasing inter- and transnational interdependence, this project examines epidemics as transborder, indeed global phenomena. Posing the question to which extent contemporaries framed these public health crises as a product of growing integration and how their perceptions translated into tangible practices, it concentrates on island of Mauritius as transimperial node. As a hub of intra- and transimperial exchanges, Mauritius was particularly susceptible to epidemic incursions; thus, frequently setting the stage for intense debates and interventions surrounding epidemic threats. The project analyzes the local dynamics as well as the intra- and interimperial links of these discourses and practices, thereby investigating interpretations of the global as well as attempts of coping with growing interdependence in terms of policies on epidemics.

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Professional Positions and Education
    04/2018–03/2019 Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institutes London and Washington D.C.
    01/2018-12/2021 Project Leader, Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 138 “Dynamics of Security. Types of Securitization from an historical Perspective”
    since 04/2014 Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a.Z.), Department of Modern History, University of Marburg
    04/2012-03/2014 Policy Advisor, German Council of Science and Humanities, Cologne
    12/2011 Dissertation (Dr. phil.) in History, University of Marburg
    06-12/2011 Research Assistant, Department of Modern History, University of Marburg
    04/2006-12/210 Project Coordinator of the Independent Historians Commission to Investigate the History of the German Foreign Office in the National Socialist Period and in the Federal Republic
    1999-2005 Degree in Modern History (major), Medieval History, Political Sciences and Law (minors) at University of Marburg and Université Paris IV-Sorbonne
    Awards and Scholarships
    08/2018–03/2019 Postdoctoral Long-Term Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
    04–06/2018 Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute, London
    2016/2017 Fellowship ProProfessur (academic career mentoring) by the Universities of Hesse
    2016/2017 Gerald D. Feldman Fellowship, Max Weber Foundation for three months of archival research in Aix-en-Provence, Paris, London and Washington D.C.
    08/2008 Doctoral Fellowship by the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
    01/2007–11/2010 Doctoral Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
    Other Professional Activities
    2020/2021 Mentor, program “ProMotivation: career mentoring for female graduates in the humanities and social sciences” by the University of Marburg
    2017-2021 Board Member for the Dissertation Prize of the AG Internationale Geschichte
    2014–2016 Elected Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of History, Marburg University

  • Publications

    Monographies

    "Wir müssen alle etwas umlernen" Zur Internationalisierung des Auswärtigen Dienstes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1945/51-1969)", Göttingen 2013. (Diss. Univ. Marburg 2011) (Availble from Wallstein Verlag)


    Edited Volumes

    Seuchengeschichte. Sonderheft, Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 73.7/8 (2022) (with Malte Thießen).

    (In-)Securities across European Empires and beyond. Themenschwerpunkt, Journal of Modern European History 16.3 (with Benedikt Stuchtey).


    Articles

    Diseases know no borders? Über das Ringen um Grenzen in epidemischen Zeiten, in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 73.7/8 (2022), pp. 387-402.

    Seuchengeschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. Neue Erkundungen auf einem alten Forschungsfeld, in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 73.7/8 (2022), pp.365-371 (with Malte Thießen).

    (New) Imperial History, in: Stefan Berger (Hg.): Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, London 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350927933.121.

    Nineteenth-Century Labor Migration and Fear of Epidemics in the British Colony of Mauritius (c. 1834-1910): A Danger to Public Health?, in: Werner Distler/Heidi Hein-Kircher (ed.): The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order: An Interdisciplinary Intervention, London 2022, pp. 187-207.

    Das Marburg-Virus: Zur Vorgeschichte globaler Gesundheitssicherheit, in: Christian Kleinschmidt (ed.): Seuchenbekämpfung, Wissenschaft und Unternehmensstrategien. Die Behringwerke und die Philipps-Universität Marburg im 20. Jahrhundert, Darmstadt 2021, pp. 219-233 (with Sven Opitz and Malte Hagener).

    The “Greatest Traveller of Them All”: Rats, Port Cities, and the Plague in U.S. Imperial History (c. 1899–1915), in: Christina Reimann, Martin Öhman (ed.): Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940, New York 2021, pp. 107-126.

    (In-)Securities across European Empires and beyond. Mapping a New Research Field, in: Journal of Modern European History 16.3 (2018), 321-334 (with Benedikt Stuchtey).

    The “New Look” of German Diplomacy: The West German Foreign Service after the Second World War, in: Diplomacy & Statecraft 29.2 (2018), 197-207.

    Sicherheit vor Seuchen. Zum Spannungsverhältnis von Zukunftsentwürfen, Sicherheit und Staatlichkeit im Deutschen Kaiserreich, in: Christoph Kampmann, Angela Marciniak, Wencke Meteling (ed.): "Security turns its eye exclusively to the future". Zum Verhältnis von Sicherheit und Zukunft in der Geschichte, Baden-Baden 2018, pp. 259-283 (with Malte Thießen).

    "Nun wird er Außenminister, und Außenpolitik ist gewiß nicht seine erste Profession." Hans-Dietrich Genschers Anfänge als Außenminister und die Weltordnung zu Beginn seiner Amtszeit, in: Kerstin Brauckhoff, Irmgard Schwaetzer (ed.): Hans-Dietrich Genschers Außenpolitik, Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 97-118.

    Die Neuen, die Alten, die "Ehemaligen", in: Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann: Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik, München 2010, pp. 489-532.

    Neue Diplomatie, in: ebenda, pp. 621-633, 639-650.

    Nationale Macht und Internationales Recht. Völkerrecht und Politik im Deutschen Reich (1870/71 - 1890), in: HMRG 18 (2005), pp. 199-221.


    Other Publications and Contributions

    Pandemie, Nation und die Geschichte des Nationalismus im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, in: H-Soz-Kult, Forum: Zeiterfahrung, 08.12.2020, <www.hsozkult.de/text/id/texte-5078>.

    “Epidemics are a fascinating topic given their characteristic disrespect for any kinds of borders” – Interview with Andrea Wiegeshoff, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 04.06.2020, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/24052. 

    Quarantäne als Sicherheitsrepertoire. Ein Beitrag zur Reihe "Sicherheit in der Krise", in: Soziopolis, 30. April 2020, https://www.soziopolis.de/beobachten/gesellschaft/artikel/quarantaene-als-sicherheitsrepertoire/.

    Clashing Ways of Knowing at the Moment of Immigration, in: Migrant Knowledge, December 16, 2019, https://migrantknowledge.org/2019/12/16/clashing-ways-of-knowing/.


    Reviews

    in Connections, European History Quarterly, German Studies Review, Historische Zeitschrift, HSozKult, Neue Politische Literatur, Sehepunkte, WerkstattGeschichte, Women's History Review

  • Courses Taught

    Summer semester 2022
    Exercise: Environment and Empire: Imperialgeschichte als Umweltgeschichte (with Florian Neiske)

    Winter semester 2021/2022
    Proseminar: Sklaverei in Nordamerika
    Exercise: Ökologie der Infektionskontrolle(with Sven Opitz)

    Winter semester 2020/2021
    Exercise: Seuchenpolitik in historischer Perspektive

    Summer semester 2020
    Proseminar (4-stündig): Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte

    Winter semester 2019/2020
    Proseminar (4-stündig): Geschichte des Rassismus in den USA

    Summer semester 2019:
    Übung/Seminar: Politiken der Ansteckung – Zur Geschichte der Übertragungskontrolle (gem. mit Sven Opitz)
    Übung: Lernen aus der Geschichte?

    Winter semester 2017/2018:
    Proseminar (4-stündig): „The American Way of Empire“. Amerikanischer Kolonialismus und Imperialismus im 19. Jahrhundert

    Summer semester 2017:
    Proseminar (4-stündig):„Mother of all Pandemics“. Die „Spanische Grippe“ 1918/19

    Winter semester 2016/2017:
    Exercise: Arbeiten im historischen Fotoarchiv. Erschließung und Dokumentation historischer Fotografien aus deutschen Kolonialgebieten (gem. mit Lucia Halder, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln)

    Summer semester 2016:
    Proseminar (4-stündig): "Heart of Darkness". Der Kongo von der europäischen Kolonialisierung bis zur Unabhängigkeit
    Übung: Das Studium der "Naturvölker". Historische Fotografien als Quellen der Imperial- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (gem. mit Lucia Halder, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln)

    Winter semester 2015/2016:
    Proseminar (4-stündig): "Tools of Empire". Europäischer Imperialismus und Technologie

    Summer semester 2015:
    Proseminar (4-stündig): Kolonialismus im 19. Jahrhundert

    Winter semester 2014/2015:
    Proseminar (4-stündig): Seuchen im 19. Jahrhundert

    Summer semester 2014:
    Proseminar (4-stündig): Das Auswärtige Amt - Geschichte des Ministeriums und seiner Diplomaten

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