Ulrike Lindner (editor) - New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire: Comparative and Global Approaches

German soldiers in Southwest Africa, ca. 1910. Courtesy bpk Bildagentur fr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte.

Anna Catharina Neumeier and Johann Michael Beckers marriage certificate, Josephstal colony, issued by the pastor Carl Biller on February 5, 1801. Courtesy State Archive of Odesa Oblast.

Eastman Kodak advertisement, 1901. Courtesy George Eastman Museum.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Filipino boy, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Filipino boy, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Filipino girl, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Mary Denison Thomas, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Mary Denison Thomas in a boat, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Mary Denison Thomas on a horse, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Photo album of Mary Denison Thomas, Mary Denison Thomas on a horse, 1900. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Eva Bischoff teaches International History at Trier University. Her research interests include colonial and imperial history, postcolonial theory, and gender/queer studies. She received her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Her thesis was published as a monograph in 2011, entitled: Kannibale-Werden. Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher Mnnlichkeit um 1900 (transcript). She recently concluded a book project investigating the history of a group of Quaker families and their roles in the process of settler imperialism in early nineteenth-century Australia.

Bettina Brockmeyer is a historian and currently postdoctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Center Practices of Comparison at Bielefeld University. Her research interests include gender history, colonialism, biographical writing, and history of medicine and the body. She is the author of Selbstverstndnisse. Dialoge ber Krper und Gemt im frhen 19. Jahrhundert (2009). She co-edited the Journal InterDisciplines (2016) on Race, Gender, and Questions of Belonging. In her current book project she is working on colonial biographies in an entangled Tanzanian-German-British history.

Elizabeth Dillenburg is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Minnesota (USA). She received her BA and MA from Marquette University (Wisconsin, USA). She is completing her dissertation, entitled Constructing the Girlhood of Our Empire: Education, Emigration, and Girls Imperial Networks in Britain, South Africa, and New Zealand, c. 18801910. Her research focuses on gender, childhood history, migration, historical memory, and sports history. Her publications include The Cricket Pitch as a Battlefield: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Contexts of the 1960s Protests against Apartheid Cricket (2012). She worked as the editorial assistant for Gender & History from 20142016 and has been the assistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook since 2016.

Divya Kannan is currently Assistant Professor, Department of History, at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her research interests include histories of education, childhood, gender, and colonialism, with a particular focus on South India. She is currently involved in researching a history of popular science education, schooling, and oral narratives in twentieth-century Kerala.

Drte Lerp is working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on German and European colonial history, global tourism history, and postcolonial memorial culture. She is author of Imperiale Grenzrume. Bevlkerungspolitiken in Deutsch-Sdwestafrika und den stlichen Provinzen Preuens 18841914 (2016) and published an article on the Colonial Gender Order in the German Historical Museums catalogue German Colonial History. Fragments Past and Present (2016) as well as a chapter on German colonial womens schools in Witzenhausen and Bad Weilbach (2009). She is currently exploring the history of wildlife tourism in Eastern Africa in the second half of the twentieth century.

Ulrike Lindner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne. Her research interests lie in imperial, colonial, and global history. She has worked on the comparative history of European empires in Africa and has also addressed postcolonial approaches, questions of colonial labor, and issues of gender and colonialism. Her publications include Koloniale Begegnungen: Grobritannien und Deutschland als Imperialmchte in Afrika 18801914 (2011), Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States. Germany and Great Britain in a (Post)colonial World (co-edited with Maren Mhring et al., 2010); Bonded Labour. Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th21st Century) (co-edited with Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf et al., 2016); Transcending Gender Roles, Crossing Racial and Political Boundaries: Agnes Hill in German South West Africa, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2016).

Julia Malitska received her PhD in History from Sdertrn University (Sweden) in 2017. She is the author of the book Negotiating Imperial Rule: Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe (2017). Her current research interests cover the history of medicine, animal welfare and consumption in Eastern and Central Europe during nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Silvan Niedermeier is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Erfurt. His research focuses on gender history, history of violence, visual history, history of race and racism, history of US imperialism, and the history of the US American South. His publications include Intimacy and Annihilation: Approaching the Enforcement of U.S. Colonial Rule in the Southern Philippines through a Private Photograph Collection, in InVisible Culture (2017); Imperial Narratives: Reading U.S. soldiers photo albums from the Philippine American War, in: Rethinking History (2014); Violence and Visibility in Modern History (2013, co-edited with Jrgen Martschukat), and Rassismus und Brgerrechte. Polizeifolter im Sden der USA 19301955 (2014, awarded with the translation prize Geisteswissenschaft International).

Alexis Rappas is Assistant Professor of History at Ko University in Istanbul where he teaches Mediterranean history, European history and historiography. His research focuses on the impact of European colonialism in post-Ottoman settings. He is the author of Cyprus in the 1930s: British Colonial Rule and the Roots of the Cyprus Conflict (2014). His research has appeared in the International Journal of Working-Class History, European History Quarterly, the Journal of Modern Greek Studies and the Revue dHistoire Moderne et Contemporaine.

Jan Severin is a doctorate candidate in the History Department of Humboldt University of Berlin. He is currently working on his PhD-project about Masculinity, sexuality and colonialism: a historical analysis of gender constructions and their efficacy in German Southwest Africa (18841915) (working title).