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Valeska Huber
Universität Wien
Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Spitalgasse 2/4
A-1090 Wien
Research areas
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International and Global History
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Migration and Mobility
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Political Communication and Global Publics
Resume
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2022
Tenure Track Professorship for Contemporary History -
2018
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize -
2017-Present
Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group, Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century, Freie Universität Berlin -
2011-2016
Research fellow, Colonial and Global History, German Historical Institute London -
2007-2011
Lecturer, Modern and Contemporary History, University of Konstanz -
2010
Fellow, Insitute for Advanced Study Konstanz -
2009
Ph.D., University of Konstanz (Funding, among others, through the German Academic Scholarship Foundation) -
2006-2007
Visiting fellow, Harvard University -
2004
M.Phil., Modern European History, University of Cambridge (Funding from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Arts and Humanities Council, and the European Trust) -
2003
B.Sc., Government and History, London School of Economics and Political Science (Funding through the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Publications
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Cambridge University Press, 2013
Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869-1914
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In: Special Section Journal of Contemporary History: Social Planning in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts, Journal of Contemporary History 52/1 (2017), S. 3-15.
Global Histories of Social Planning
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In: Special Section Journal of Contemporary History: Social Planning in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts Journal of Contemporary History 52/1 (2017), S. 95-117.
Planning Education and Manpower in the Middle East, 1950s-60s
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In: Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat Toorawa (Hg.) The Hajj: Pilgrimage in Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), S. 175-195.
International Bodies: The Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Emergence of International Health Regulations
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In: Liat Kozma, Avner Wishnitzer and Cyrus Schayegh (Hg.), A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (London: IB Tauris, 2015), S. 81-108.
Education and Mobility: Universities in Cairo between Competition and Standardization 1900-1950
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In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education (2015), S. 77-93.
International Agendas and Local Manifestations: Universities in Cairo, Beirut and Jerusalem after World War I
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Boris Barth, Stefanie Gänger, und Niels P. Petersson (Hg.), Globalgeschichten: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven (Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2014), S. 175-204.
Eine Sprache für alle: Basic English und die Grenzen der Globalgeschichte
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European Review of History – Revue européenne d’histoire 19/1 (2012), S. 141-161.
Connecting Colonial Seas: The “International Colonisation” of Port Said and the Suez Canal during and after the First World War
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In: Jörn Leonhard, Ulrike von Hirschhausen (Hg.), Comparing Empires: Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), S. 37-59.
Highway of the British Empire? The Suez Canal between Imperial Competition and Local Accommodation
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In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 36 (2010), S. 317-341.
Multiple Mobilities: Über den Umgang mit verschiedenen Mobilitätsformen um 1900
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In: Historical Journal 49/2 (2006), S. 453-476.
The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851-1894
Activities
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Workshop „Global Publics and their Actors“
Valeska Huber, historian and member of Die Junge Akademie, and the team of her Emmy Noether Research Group “Reaching the People: Communication and Global Orders in the Twentieth Century” will organize a one-day workshop on “Global Publics and their Actors” on September 9, 2022.
Topics:
- Starts on
- 09.09.22
- Ends on
- 09.09.22
Event access: Internal
Berlin-Brandenburg
Academy of Sciences and Humanities09:30 — 17:00
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