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Roland Wenzlhuemer, Professor Dr.
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Position
- Professor for Modern History at the History Department
- Principal Investigator
Contact information
Projects
- B9 Information Flows (project completed)
- B17 The Nation State & Beyond (project completed)
- HRA7 GeoTWAIN
- MC12 Floating Spaces
- MC12.1 Ships' Newspapers
- MC12.3 Cultural Practices at Sea
Curriculum vitae
Education
2011, 22 Jun: Habilitation at the Philosophische FakultĂ€t of Heidelberg University. Venia Legendi: Modern History. Habilitation thesis: âTransforming Global Spaces: The Telegraph, Communication and Globalization in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuryâ.
2002, 12 Apr: Doctoral degree (doctor philosophiae) earned at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Salzburg University, Austria. Doctoral thesis: âCeylon 1880-1900: Economic, Social, Administrative and Religious Developmentsâ (Supervisor: Dr. Norbert Ortmayr, Department of History, Salzburg University).
1999 â 2002: Graduate student at the Department of History, Salzburg University, Austria
1999, 12 Oct: Master degree (magister philosophiae) earned at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Salzburg University, Austria. Master thesis: âAgrarian Conflicts in Bihar. Caste War or Class Fights in Postcolonial India since Independenceâ (Supervisor: Dr. Norbert Ortmayr, Department of History, Salzburg University).
1994 â 1999: Student at the Department of History and the Department of Communication Sciences, Salzburg University, Austria.
1994, 24 Jun: A-Levels in German, Mathematics, English and History.
Work Experience
Since September 2014: Professor of Modern History at the History Department, Heidelberg University.
2013/14: Offer of the Chair of Economic and Social History at the University of Innsbruck.
2013, Apr - 2014, Mar: Visiting Professor/Gastprofessor at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel.
2012, Nov - 2014, Aug: Heisenberg Fellow at the History Department, Heidelberg University.
2011, Sep - 2012, Oct: Visiting Professor/Vertretungsprofessor Modern History (Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch) at the History Department, Heidelberg University.
2008, Oct - 2012, Oct: Junior Research Group Leader in the Cluster of Excellence âAsia and Europe in a Global Contextâ at Heidelberg University.
Research project: âAsymmetries in Cultural Information Flows: Europe and South Asia in the Global Information Network since the Nineteenth Century.â
2005, Apr â 2008, Sep: Lecturer and researcher at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (Mohrenstrasse 60, 10117 Berlin, Germany).
Research project âContinuity and Change in the History of the Information Society: From the Telegraph Network to the Internet.â
2004, May â 2005, Mar: Freelance historical adviser to Ravensburger Spieleverlag (Robert-Bosch-Strasse 1, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany).
Project assistance âUnited States Culture and Communications Policy and the Internet at the End/the Beginning of the âAmerican Centuryââ at the Department of History and Politics, Salzburg University.
2003, Sep â 2004, Apr: Researcher at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany). Coordinator of the interdisciplinary research project âPort Regimes in the Indian Ocean: Governance and Public Goods.â
2002, Feb â 2003, Jan: Social worker at Fa. TAO&ModeCircel (Teisenberggasse 25, 5020 Salzburg, Austria). Re-integration of long-term unemployed persons into the labour market.
1998, Sep â 2000, Apr: Co-founder of and radio journalist and producer at the radio station âRadiofabrik â Freies Radio Salzburgâ, Salzburg, Austria
1998, Aug: Internship at the Federal Historical Archives of Upper Austria, Linz, Austria.
1997, Aug: Internship at the radio station âRadio Untersbergâ, Freilassing, Germany.
Fellowships & Grants
2012, Nov â 2014, Aug: Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2012, Oct: "Klaus-Georg und Sigrid Hengstberger-Preis" for young scholars at Heidelberg University
2008, Nov â 2013, Oct: Fellow of the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin.
2006, Sep â 2009, Aug: Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
2006, Aug â 2010, Mar: German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Scholarship â Travel Grants.
2006, Aug â 2007, Sep: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) PostDoc Programme Research Scholarship.
2001, Feb/Mar: Salzburg University Scholarship for Research Abroad â Research at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Kandy, Sri Lanka, and at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
2000, May/Jun: Salzburg University Scholarship for Research Abroad â Research at the Public Record Office (PRO), the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library, London, UK.
1999, Jan â Mar: Salzburg University Scholarship for Research Abroad â Research at the A.N. Sinha Institute for Social Studies (ANSISS) and at Patna University, Patna, India.
1997: Salzburg University Exceptional Performance Grant.
Selected publications
Monographs
(and Monica Juneja) Die Neuzeit 1789-1914. UTB basics. Konstanz: UVK 2013.
Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012.
From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900: An Economic and Social History. Leiden â Boston: Brill Academic Publishers 2008.
Edited Volumes
(and Isabella Löhr) The Nation State and Beyond. Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (ed.). Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.
(and Christiane Brosius) Transcultural Turbulences. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media (ed.). Heidelberg: Springer 2011.
Global Communication. Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Special Issue of Historical Social Research (ed.). Köln: Center for Historical Social Research 35 (2010), 1.
Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method. Special Issue of Historical Social Research (ed.). Köln: Center for Historical Social Research 34 (2009), 2.
Articles & Capters
(and Isabella Löhr) "Introduction: The Nation State and Beyond. Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." In: Löhr/Wenzlhuemer, The Nation State and Beyond. Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (ed.). Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, p. 1-26.
(and Michael Offermann) "Ship Newspapers and Passenger Life Aboard Transoceanic Steamships in the Late Nineteenth Century." In: Transcultural Studies 3, (2012), 1, p. 77-121.
âLess Than No Time: Zum VerhĂ€ltnis von Telegrafie und Zeit.â In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 37, (2011), 4, p. 592-613.
(and Christiane Brosius) âIntroduction â Transcultural Turbulences: Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows.â In: Brosius, Christiane/Wenzlhuemer, Roland (eds.). Transcultural Turbulences. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media. Heidelberg: Springer 2011, p. 3-24.
ââI had occasion to telegraph to Calcuttaâ: Die Telegrafie und ihre Rolle in der Globalisierung im 19. Jahrhundert.â In: Themenportal EuropĂ€ische Geschichte (2011).
âThe History of Standardisation in Europe.â In: EuropĂ€ische Geschichte Online (2010).
âEditorial - Telecommunication and Globalization in the Nineteenth Century.â In: Wenzlhuemer, Roland (ed.). Global Communication. Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Special Issue of Historical Social Research. Köln: Center for Historical Social Research 35 (2010), 1, p. 7-18.
âGlobalization, Communication and the Concept of Space in Global History.â In: Wenzlhuemer, Roland (ed.). Global Communication. Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Special Issue of Historical Social Research. Köln: Center for Historical Social Research 35 (2010), 1, p. 19-47.
(and Matthias Arnold, Konrad Berner, Peter Gietz und Kilian Schultes) âGeoTwain: Geospatial Analysis and Visualisation for Researchers in Transcultural Studies.â Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, 7-9 Dec 2009.
âMetropolitan Telecommunication: Uneven Telegraphic Connectivity in Nineteenth-Century London.â In: Social Science Computer Review. GIS Special Edition 27 (2009), 3, p. 437-451.
âLondon in the Global Telecommunication Network of the Nineteenth Century.â In: New Global Studies 3, (2009), 1, Art. 2.
âEditorial: Unpredictability, Contingency and Counterfactuals.â In: Wenzlhuemer, Roland (ed.). Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method. Special Issue of Historical Social Research. Köln: Center for Historical Social Research 34 (2009), 2, p. 9-15.
âCounterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method.â In: Wenzlhuemer, Roland (ed.). Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method. Special Issue of Historical Social Research. Köln: Center for Historical Social Research 34 (2009), 2, p. 27-54.
âThe Dematerialization of Telecommunication: Communication Centres and Peripheries in Europe, 1850-1920.â In: Journal of Global History, 2 (2007) 3, p. 345-372.
âThe Development of Telegraphy, 1870-1900: A European Perspective on a World History Challenge.â In: History Compass 5 (2007), 5, p. 1720-1742.
âIndian Labour Immigration and British Labour Policy in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon.â In: Modern Asian Studies 41 (2007), 3, p. 575-602.
âThe Sinhalese Contribution to Estate Labour in Ceylon, 1881-1891.â In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 48 (2005), 3, p. 442-45
Encyclopedia Articles
âTelecommunications.â In: Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920, ed. Christine Rider. Westport CT: Greenwood 2007.
âEmpire, British,â âLaw, Colonial Systems of, British Empire,â and âCrown Colony.â In: Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, 3 vols, ed. Thomas Benjamin. Detroit: Macmillan Reference 2006.
âColonialism: History,â âInternational Rice Research Institute,â and âBangladesh.â In: Encyclopedia of the Developing World, 3 vols., ed. Thomas Leonard. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Reviews
âReview of Ian Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler. Lord Londonderry and Britainâs Road to War.â In: Hard Times (2006), 79, p. 35-37.
âReview of Dennis Judd, The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947.â In: Itinerario 29 (2005), 3, p. 207-208.
Working Papers
(and T. Zitelmann): âNeue Paradigmen in der Hafenforschung â Das Projekt âHafenregimeâ.â ZMO Working Paper, April 2004.