History of Protestant movements in the early modern period

History of the Moravian Church

Missionary and colonial history

Agricultural history and the history of rural areas

Environmental history

Historical demography

DFG Network "Mission, Gender, Emotion in a Transconfessional Perspective"

Working Group "Gender & Pietism" of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pietism Research

Society for Global History e.V.

Dr Liselotte Kirchner scholarship holder at the Francke Foundations in Halle/Saale (2021)

BMBF - project "FLiF - Research-based teaching in focus" (2011-2020)

2017 and 2020 DAAD scholarships to attend conferences in the USA

2006-2010 Doctoral scholarship from the Protestant Study Centre "Villigst"

23./25. 11.2023: " Confessions and "disruptions". Negotiation processes of Pietist piety between Halle Pietists, the Moravian Church and other actors in colonial Georgia in the 1730s"

Lecture at the conference "Halle and Moravian Pietism in a Global Context. Theologies and Practices - Strategies and Conflicts" at the Francke Foundations Halle/Saale

5.10. 2023: Labour, Conversion and Imperial Utopias in the Mission of the Moravian Church in Suriname (ca. 1735-1810)

Lecture at the conference "Locating the Self, Negotiating the Other": Imperial Expansion and Conversion in the Early Modern Period" at the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Münster

18.8.2023: "Creating Networks between Paramaribo, Basel, Königsfeld and Zeist. The activities of Johann Rudolf Passavant in support of the Moravian Mission in the^1st half of the^19th century."

Lecture at the Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music in Bethlehem/Pennsylvania

27. 6. 2023: "I could never bring myself to eat lizard, nor monkey". Writing about food in the chronicle and the letters of the missionary Christlieb Quandt (1740-1824) in colonial Suriname.

Lecture at the workshop: "Food Systems and Practices. Past, Present, Future at the University of Sheffield/ Institute for Sustainable Food

4/5 November 2022: "Possession and Madness as Political Knowledge. On the Justification of Deviance and Violence in the Moravian Mission in the Danish Carribean and Suriname (ca. 1735-1790).

Lecture at the symposium "Race, Slavery, and Land. Moravian Legacies in a Global Context, 1722-2000", Moravian College, Bethlehem/ Pennsylvania

29.8.2022: "My wife behaved quite masculine." The attribution of "masculine" and "feminine" practices in travelogues through different natural spaces. The Herrnhut missionary couples Bock and Horn on their travels through Suriname and Europe"

Lecture at the congress "Travelling and religion in the long 18th century. VI. International Congress for Pietism Research" in Halle/ Saale

27 June 2022: "Identity and Memory in the Correspondence of 18th Century Female Missionaries of the Moravian Church in Suriname"

Lecture at the COST workshop "Transcultural Memory of Female Migration - Concepts, Practices, Case Studies" in Prague

11.12.2021: "Common people of uncommon imagination.". The Herrnhuters in Gotthilf August Francke's correspondence network in the 1730s and 1740s

Lecture at the colloquium of the Dr Liselotte Kirchner scholarship programme in Halle/Saale

18-21 November 2021: "Light birds" or "Indian city dwellers". Discussions about sedentarisation in the Surinam Mission of the Moravian Church.

Lecture at the conference "Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine als Impulsgeber für religiöse und kulturelle Innovation im 18. Jahrhundert" in Herrnhut

27.10.2021: "Religious emotions in the letters of the Moravian missionary Thomas Langballe (1764-1828) from Suriname

Lecture at the workshop "Selbstzeugnisse. Writing and religious emotion in early modern Europe and beyond at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

1.10.2021: "Shaping Bodies and emotions in a German speaking religious community,^18th Century"

Lecture at the seminar "The German Body and Self in Global Circuits of Knowledge and Practice, 1700-1945" GSA Indianapolis

12.2.2021: The thematisation of food in the mission chronicle and letters of Christlieb Quandt (1740-1824) in colonial Suriname

Lecture at the workshop: "Verzicht, Verzehr und Vigilanz zwischen Polyzentrik und Pluralität vormoderner Religionen, Frankfurt/Munich

20-24. 4. 2021: Organisation of the panel (chair): "Obedient Subjects" "mingling in worldly affairs"? Social and political entanglements of Moravian communities in the tanzatlantic world

Lecture at the Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, 20-24 April 2021 in Bethlehem/Pennsylvania

Here own lecture:

"Necessary presents". Moravian Missionaries, British Privateers and Local Colonial Rulers in late 18th - Century South America.

1 Dec. 2018: "We don't need slaves here, we have oxen and horses...". Letters from schools of the Moravian Church to the children of the slave mission in Paramaribo

Lecture at the conference: "Traces of the slave trade in the Holy Roman Empire and its successor states. Discourses, Practices and Objects 1500-1850", University of Bremen

11-13 October 2018: "He accepted his wife as his mentor". Gender and work among the Mission of the Moravian Church in Colonial Suriname (^18thCentury)

Lecture at the^6th Conference on Moravian History and Music at the Moravian College in Bethlehem/ Pennsylvania (USA)

5-8 October 2017: "A loyal heart to god and the government". Missions and politics in the^18th Century Moravian Mission in Suriname

Lecture at the GSA, Atlanta (USA), funded by the DAAD

7.9.2017: The export of ideal lives. Moravians in the colonies

Lecture at the interdisciplinary workshop: "Tracing the Jerusalem Code. A new Jerusalem, the perfect society." in

Christiansfeld (Denmark)

13.5.2017: Surinam-Zeist-Herrnhut-Pennsylvania: On the interplay of local practices and global missionary politics using the example of the Herrnhut Surinam Mission in the 18th century

Lecture at the international conference "Reformation, Migration and Religious Pluralisation: Politics and Practices of Religious Coexistence" in Oldenburg

6.11.2016: (K)ein ehrenwertes Haus. Possibilities and limits of "alternative" lifestyles among East Frisian householders from the 16th to 18th centuries

Lecture at the conference "Freie Friesentöchter"? International conference on the history of mentality, law and piety in Friesland at the Johannes a Lasco Library/ Great Church Emden

28.10.2016: An Unusual Silence. Music and Sounds During the Moravian Mission in Suriname (c. 1735-1835)

Lecture at the^5th Conference on Moravian History and Music at the Moravian College in Bethlehem/ Pennsylvania (USA)

2 April 2016: A Small, Hidden, Global Place: Living in New-Bambey. The Interaction of Two Multi-Ethnic Groups in^18th Century Suriname: Moravian Missionaries and Saramaccan Maroon (c. 1770-1813)

Lecture at the ESSHC Valencia (Spain)

8 October 2014: Contested Knowledge and Ambivalent Practices in the Everyday Life of the Suriname Herrnhut Mission (1735-1810)

Presentation at the conference: "All at Sea: The Prize Papers as a Source for a Global Microhistory" in London (UK)

A God of Order. Colonial Politics and the Mission of the Moravian Church in Suriname (ca. 1735-1820) [Publication in preparation]

"Mission and Empire: Conflicting Cooperations. The Moravian Mission in Saron/ Suriname (1757-1779) as a meso-history of the relationship between supra-territorial religion and imperial state-building in the second half of the 18th century" [to be published in 2024 in a special issue of the "Yearbook of Transnational History", ed. by Susanne Lachenicht]

"Birds in the air" or "urban citizens"? Competing concepts of order in the Surinam mission of the Moravian Church [with Jonas Schwierz, to be published in 2023 in the proceedings of the Herrnhuter-Tagung 2021, ed. by Wolfgang Breul and Peter Vogt].

Religious Emotions in the Letters of the Herrnhut Missionary Thomas Langballe (1764-1828) from Suriname [to be published in 2023 in an anthology of the publication series of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, ed. by Ulrike Gleixner].

"We Do Not Need Any Slaves; We Use Oxen and Horses": Children's Letters from Moravian Communities in Europe to Slaves' Children in Suriname (1829), in: Mallinckrodt, Rebekka (ed.): Beyond exceptionalism. Traces of the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, Berlin 2021.

"Contrasting Roles of Female Moravian Missionaries in Surinam Negotiating Transatlantic Normalisation and Colonial Everyday Practices" (Eighteenth Century), in: Burschel, Peter/ Juterczenka, Sünne (ed.): Das Meer. Maritime Worlds in the Early Modern Period, Göttingen 2021

"A loyal heart to God and the governor". Missions and colonial policy in the Surinamese Saramaccan Mission (c. 1750-1813), in: Moravian Journal 19.1 (2019), pp. 1-24.

(Not) an honourable house? Possibilities of alternative ways of life in the Oldenburg and East Frisian coastal marshes of the 17th and 18th centuries, in: Voß, Klaas - Dieter (ed.), Freie Friesentöchter. Tradition und gelebte Wirklichkeit, Emden 2019, pp. 79-92 [with Isabel Schnieder].

"Betriegereyen" and false letters. On the negotiation of solidarity in East Frisian beggar trials in the 18th century, in: Dagmar Freist (ed.), ArchivGeschichten. Festschrift für Gerd Steinwascher, Stuttgart 2018, pp. 136-151 [with Frank Marquardt].

Why a university? Interdisciplinary projects in research-based learning, in: Judith Lehmann/ Harald A. Mieg (eds.): Forschendes Lernen. Ein Praxisbuch, Potsdam 2018, pp. 230-243.

Owning the Body, Wooing the Soul - How Forced Labour Was Justified in the Moravian Correspondence Network in 18th-Century Surinam, in: Dagmar Freist and Susanne Lachenicht (eds.), Connecting Worlds and People, Oxam 2016, pp. 81-103.

Teaching in the format of which research? Reflections on the concept of research using the example of history, philosophy and the sociology of sport, in: Birte Heidkamp/ David Kergel (eds.), Forschendes Lernen 2.0. Partizipatives Lernen zwischen Globalisierung und medialem Wandel, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 229-244.

Herrnhut diaspora, culture of remembrance and identity formation "in absence". Letter networks between Europe and Surinam, in: Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe 23 (2015), pp. 201-219.

Simply Noble. The Householders of the Northwest German Coastal Marshes in the Early Modern Period, Göttingen 2014.

Noble polder farmers, European trade and the pipe in front of the fireplace. Local and regional elites in the north-west German marshes, in: Dagmar Freist and Frank Schmekel (eds.), Hinter dem Horizont. Projection and Distinction in European Comparison, 17th-19th Century, Münster 2013, pp. 67-77.

Reviews

Bauer, Volker et al. (eds.): Frauen-Bücher-Höfe: Wissen und Sammeln vor 1800 (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 151), Wiedbaden 2018, in: Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 39 (2021), 201-204.

Cranz, David: Geschichte der evangelischen Brüdergemeinungen in Schlesien, insonderheit der Gemeinde zu Gnadenfrei. Eine historisch-kritische Edition, ed. by Dietrich Meyer (Neue Forschungen zur schlesischen Geschichte, 29), Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2021, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 (2022) 4, pp. 803-804.

Hirbodian, Sigrid et al. (eds.): Frauen in Württemberg (Landeskundig. Tübinger Vorträge zur Landesgeschichte 1), Ostfildern 2016, in: Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 37 (2019), pp. 161-163.

Lightfoot, Natasha: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation, in: Journal of Moravian History 18 (2019) 1, pp. 113-115.

Zumholz, Maria Anna: "Das Weib soll nicht gelehrt seyn". Confessionally influenced images of women, women's education and female life plans from the Reformation to the early 20th century, Münster 2015, in: Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 36 (2018), pp. 197-199.

Smaller contributions

Gehörigee Beschidenheit, bitte!: Religiöse Vielfalt in Neustadtgödens, Oldenburg 2016 (with Frank Marquardt, reader with student contributions for a school project).

Winter term 2024

Life course and demography in the early modern period: birth, childhood, marriage, old age and death (lecture)

Mission, Slavery and Maronage in Suriname: The Mission Stations of the Moravian Church in Saramacca in the 2nd Half of the 18th Century (Master's Seminar) (Lectureship at the University of Kassel)

Summer term 2023

Environmental and climate history of the early modern period (lecture)

"Major museum excursion" to Prague

Winter term 2022/23

Renaissance and Humanism (lecture)

The City in the Old Empire between the Reformation and the Peace of Westphalia (with Daniel Fleisch, advanced and master's seminar)

Summer term 2022

"Colonial History and Postcolonial Historiography" (lecture)

"Fun with Flags. Political, colonial and everyday negotiation processes in the selection of the "right" flag in the 18th century (with Frank Marquardt, basic seminar)

The Moravian Church in Silesia: The Chronicle of David Cranz and the European History of the 18th Century (advanced and master's seminar)

Winter term 2021/22:

"School and orphanage between reform pedagogy, enlightenment and religious movement. The Francke Foundations" (advanced and master's seminar, block course)

Summer semester 2021:

"Prophets, revolts, scholars and too many truths. The history of Protestant religious movements in the early modern period" (basic seminar, online)

Winter semester 2020/2021:

Electorate, monarchical state or fragmented territory? Early modern state formation using the example of Prussia (basic seminar, online)

"An orderly community". Social Discipline, Church Discipline and "Civilisation" in the Mission of the Moravian Church among the Indians in Suriname (late 18th century) (with Jonas Schwiertz, block seminar, online)

Summer term 2020:

Part 2: "12 cannons, several soldiers, a ship's preacher, a medicus, chickens, geese, ducks, sheep, goats and the like." A ship crosses the Atlantic (with Frank Marquardt, project seminar in co-operation with the "Innovative University Jade-Oldenburg" and the Helene-Lange-Schule Oldenburg, two-semester course)

"We the People. The US Constitution and the Early History of Democracy (with Suzanne Foxley, advanced and master's seminar, online)

Winter term 2019/2020:

"This Nest of Desparadoes. Postcolonial questions about the memories of the mercenary John Gabriel Stedman in Surinam (1796) (advanced/master's seminar)

Part 1: "12 cannons, several soldiers, a ship's preacher, a medicus, chickens, geese, ducks, sheep, goats and the like." A ship crosses the Atlantic (with Frank Marquardt, project seminar in co-operation with the "Innovative University Jade-Oldenburg" and the Helene-Lange-Schule Oldenburg, two semesters)

Summer semester 2019:

"Major museum excursion" to Amsterdam

"Holy Experiment" Pennsylvania. Religious emigration and the utopia of religious freedom in the early modern period (basic seminar)

Missionaries in the 18th century: The Herrnhuterhut Mission (advanced and master's seminar in co-operation with a palaeography course)

Winter term 2018/2019:

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1767-1811): Farmer, doctor, freemason and traveller to the Orient. Travelogues in the early modern period (basic seminar)

Thomas Langballe (1764-1826): Watchmaker, missionary and hypochondriac. A global life in letters (advanced master's seminar)

Winter term 2017/2018:

The perception of the "others". On the construction and perception of "races" in early modern colonialism (project seminar on science communication in preparation for the "Week of Research-Based Learning" at the University of Oldenburg, which I co-organised)

Summer term 2017:

"Major museum excursion" to London

Colonialism in the early modern period - the example of Suriname (advanced master's seminar)

Winter semester 2016/17:

What can you do with history? Staged history in science, exhibitions, theatre and consumption (research seminar with various cooperation partners, including the Maritime Museum Bremerhaven and Angela McShane from the Victoria&Albert Museum London)

Research seminar with holdings from the Oldenburg State Library: Rule, religion and everyday life in times of catastrophe. The Christmas Flood of 1717 in Northwest Germany (advanced master's seminar)

Summer semester 2016:

A village as a source. Neustadtgödens and the history of the early modern period (project seminar with excursion in co-operation with the Kulturbüro Oldenburg and the Bildungszentrum für Technik und Gestaltung Oldenburg)

Winter term 2015/2016:

War and peace of religions. On the idea of religious freedom in the Age of Enlightenment in Europe (advanced and master's seminar)

Summer semester 2015:

Research seminar: Faith and research, action and rule. The global mission of the Moravians in the 18th century (advanced and master's seminar)

Summer semester 2014:

Sects and religious radicalism in the early modern period (project seminar on science communication in preparation for the "Week of Learning through Research" at the University of Oldenburg", which I helped to organise)

Winter term 2013/2014:

Why university? Scholars and students in the early modern period and the question of what they have to tell us today (interdisciplinary project seminar in co-operation with philosophy, theology and sports sociology)