Dr habil. David Kuchenbuch
Dr habil. David Kuchenbuch
Dr habil. David Kuchenbuch
Research assistant in the DFG-funded research project: "The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. A historical-scientific-sociological study, 1978-2020)" more...
About the person
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| Since April 2024 | Research Associate, Institute of History, University of Oldenburg |
2019-2024 | Scientific Coordinator of the Leibniz Prize Working Group "History and Theory of Global Capitalism", Institute of History, Justus Liebig University Giessen |
2019-2020 | Deputy Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
December 2019 | Habilitation, Giessen, Venia Legendi for "Modern and Contemporary History" |
2017-2018 | Parental leave |
2016-2017 | Scholarship holder, Historisches Kolleg Munich |
2011-2019 | Research Assistant, Professorship for Modern History, Institute of History, JLU Giessen |
2010/11 | Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. |
April 2010 | Doctorate (summa cum laude), University of Oldenburg |
2006-2009 | Research assistant in the DFG-funded research project "Ordnungsdenken und Social Engineering als Reaktion auf die Moderne. Northwestern Europe, 1920s to 1950s". Institute of History, University of Oldenburg |
June 2006 | Magister Artium (1.0 - with honours), Humboldt University of Berlin |
2003-2004 | Studies of History and European Ethnology, Stockholm University |
2000-2006 | Studies of Scandinavian Studies and Modern and Contemporary History, Humboldt University of Berlin |
Publications
Monographs:
- Globalisms. History and Present of Global Consciousness, Hamburg 2023 (publisher's page)
- Welt-Bildner. Arno Peters, Richard Buckminster Fuller and the media of globalism, 1940-2000, Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2021 ( publisher's page)
- The Peckham Experiment. A micro- and knowledge history of the London "Pioneer Health Centre" in the 20th century, Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2014 ( publisher's page)
- Pioneering Health in London 1935-2000: The Peckham Experiment, Abingdon/New York 2019 (publisher's page)
- Ordered community. Architects as Social Engineers - Germany and Sweden in the 20th Century, Bielefeld 2010 ( publisher's page)
Editorship:
- With Hanna Engelmeier and Timo Luks: "Epistemology of the group", Mittelweg 36 (2019/2020), H. 5/6
Essays (selection):
- Art. "Globalisation, World", in: Ernst Müller/Barbara Picht/Falko Schmieder (eds.): Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen, Basel 2024 (open access)
- Living at Work? Zoomification and academic "Mittelbau" after the pandemic, in: H- Soz-Kult, 18.11.2022, www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/fddebate-132463
- On dictation in the humanities 1800-1989, in: Merkur 75 (2021), H. 869, pp. 27-40
- (Anti-)capitalism in comics: "Das Geschichtsbuch" (1970/71), in: Thomas Kroll/Bettina Severin-Barboutie (eds.): Wider den Kapitalismus. Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age, Frankfurt a. M. 2021, pp. 249-270
- Histories in and of the Anthropocene - Commentary, in: History and Society (2020) (special issue: "Writing History in the Anthropocene"), pp. 736-749
- An atavism of high modernity? Summertime as "social engineering" (1907-1982), in: Historische Zeitschrift 307 (2018), pp. 1-41
- Ecolopoly. Play, knowledge and politics around 1980, in: Nach Feierabend 2016 (special issue: "Wissen ca. 1980"), pp. 145-159
- In Search of the "Human Scale" - Delimiting the Social in German and Swedish Urban Planning in the 1930s and 1940s, in: Journal of Urban History 49 (2016), pp. 1044-1064
- "Fernmoral" - On the genealogy of the glocal conscience, in: Merkur 70 (2016), H. 807, pp. 40-51
- Architecture and Urban Planning as Social Engineering. Selective Transfers between Germany and Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s, in: Journal of Contemporary History 51 (2016) (special issue: "Social Engineering and National Socialism"), pp. 22-39
- Self-responsibility as an experiment: The London "Pioneer Health Centre" (1926-1950), in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 10 (2013), pp. 366-389 (online edition)
- "One world". Global awareness of interdependence and the moralisation of everyday life in the 1970s and 80s, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 38 (2012), pp. 158-184
+ reviews and conference reports in/on AfS, arthist.net, fastforeword, Francia, Gesellschaftsforschung, HZ, hsozkult.de, NPL, soziopolis.de
Research interests
- Cultural and knowledge history of European modernity
- Media history of the 20th century
- Theories and methods of historical studies
- History of globalisation and globalism
- History of urbanisation, urban planning and urban development
- History of social engineering
- History of celebrity
- History of customised technologies
- History of capitalism