Teaching and Supervision

• Origins of Globalisation: The European World Economy 1500-1850

• History of Consumer Society, 1650 - 1950

• Social History of the 19th Century

Master:

• Challenges of Globalisation. Knowledge and practices of merchants in the modern era (17th-19th c.) - a research seminar

Advanced:

• Global Trade and Consumption, 16th-18th Century

• The World of Goods. Consumption History and Early Globalisation

• Welfare in the Post-War Period. Social Policy in Scandinavia, Great Britain and the FRG

• Knowledge (of) the World. Nature, Medicine and the Emergence of the Knowledge Society, 17th-19th Centuries 

• Agricultural economy in the modern era, 18th-20th century

• The consumption and industriousness revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries as the basis of modern development in Europe

• Modern Life: Everyday Life in the 20th Century

• How people used to cope with scarcity: Resources, Risks and Lifestyles in Germany, 17th-19th Centuries

• Changes in Private Life in the Second Half of the 20th Century

• When Two Find Each Other. Partner Choice in Europe, 16th-20th Century

• Workers' Movement in the Empire and the Weimar Republic

Beginners:

• Marriage and Family in the 18th to 20th Centuries

• The Weimar Republic. Welfare State and Everyday Life

• Trade and Industry in Westphalia in the 19th Century

• People on the Move. Migration in the 19th and 20th Centuries

• Industrialisation and Globalisation

• Rural Society. Family economy and pre-modern markets in the 17th-20th centuries

• Workers' Movement and Workers' Culture in the German Empire

• Refugees, Displaced Persons, Guest Workers. Migration and Integration in the Early Federal Republic of Germany

• The Weimar Republic. Welfare State and Everyday Life

• Living in the Village, 16th-20th Century

• The Industrial Revolution in Westphalia

I have supervised more than 60 BA, MA and PhD projects on a broad range of topics, including:

• Consumption and material culture

• Globalisation and trade in early modern period

• History of medicine and pharmacy

• History of family and household 

• History of labour and migration

• Gender roles of men and women