Dr. Isabella Löhr

Contact
Research interests
Current research
Academic backround
Fellowships, grants & honors
Conferences & workshops
Memberships
Publications

Contact

History Department
Heidelberg University
Grabengasse 3-5, R. 223
D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Telefon: ++(049) 06221/54-3974
E-mail: isabella.loehr@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

Sprechstunden während des Semesters und in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit sind auf einer separaten Übersicht herunterzuladen: Sprechstunden am Historischen Seminar
 
 

Research interests
 

• Social history of international organizations, internationalists and of border-crossing civil society networks
• History of science and of academic migration in the 20th century
• Intellectual property rights in modern history
• Comparative social and cultural history
• Global history, theory and methods

Current research
 

“Cosmopolitans Against Their Will: A Social History of Academic Migrants from Germany and their Networks in the First half of the 20th Century” [Abstract]

Academic background

November 2008
PhD for comparative social and cultural history, Leipzig University, dissertation advisors: Prof. Dr. Hannes Siegrist and Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell

October 2008 – present
Assistant professor, (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) for modern history, History Department, Heidelberg University

April 2006 – September 2008
Lecturer and researcher for European social and cultural history, Department of Cultural Studies, Leipzig University

April 2006 – April 2008
International PhD study programme “Transnationalization and Regionalization from the 18th Century to the Present”, Centre for Advanced Studies, Leipzig University

April 2004 – April 2006
Editorial staff member of the internet journal history.transnational

April 2003 – March 2006
Scientific management of the PhD study-programme “Transnationalization and Regionalization from the 18th Century to Present”, Centre for Advanced Studies, Leipzig University

1997 – 2002
M.A. in Cultural Studies and Philosophy, Leipzig University

Fellowships, grants & honors
 

July – August 2012
Research fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
Visiting scholar, Department of History, Columbia University, New York

February 2012
Gerald D. Feldman travel grant of the Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA) for the German Historical Institute, London

Since March 2011
Research grant, Olympia-Morata-programme, Heidelberg University

March 2010
Guest professorship/ Professeur invité, Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris

November 2008
Doctoral thesis award 2008, Research Academy Leipzig

September – December 2004
Research fellowship, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

November 2000 – October 2002
Scholarship holder, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
 

Conferences & workshops
 

September 2012
Panel „Global Commons – Claiming and Legitimizing the Heritage of Mankind since World War II“, 49. Deutscher Historikertag Mainz, September 2012 (with Andrea Rehling)

August 2012
Summer school „Global History and the Integration of the Modern World in the 19th and 20th Century”, Max-Weber-programme of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volke (with Roland Wenzlhuemer und Dominik Schaller)

October 2010 – December 2011
Preparation and opening of the special exhibition „Excellent! Heidelberg and its Nobel Price Holders”, Heidelberg University Museum, sponsored by the Klaus Tschira Foundation

December 2009
Workshop “The Nation State and Beyond. Governing Globalization Processes in the 19th and Early 20th Century”, Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University (with Roland Wenzlhuemer).
Conference report in: history.transnational (07.05.2010), URL: http://geschichte-transnational.clio-online.net/tagungsberichte/id=3110.

July 2008
Panel “The Propertisation of Culture. The International Governance of the Copyright Regime”, 2nd European Congress in World and Global History, Dresden (with Hannes Siegrist)
Panel “International Organizations in Global History: Driving Forces, Venue or Rather the Consequence of Competing World Orders?”, 2nd European Congress in World and Global History, Dresden (with Klaas Dykmann)

2004 – present
Member of admission committees of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Memberships

• ENIUGH, European Network in Universal and Global History
• Clio.online – Historisches Fachinformationssystem e.V.
• History of International Organizations Network
• Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
   

Publications

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