Samida, Stefanie, PD Dr.
Samida, Stefanie, PD Dr.
Fields of work
Material Culture, Heritage Studies, Museum, Public History, Popular Cultures/Everyday Cultures
Biographical data
- since 10/2024 Administration of the professorship "Cultural Studies of the Material" at the Institute of Material Culture at the University of Oldenburg and since 2017 Privatdozentin for Popular Cultures at the University of Zurich
- 4/2022-9/2023Administration of the professorship "Cultural History of European Textiles" at the Institute of Material Culture at the University of Oldenburg
- 2022-2024 Research assistant at the University of Heidelberg
- 2019/20 Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna
- 2016 Habilitation at the University of Zurich (Venia Legendi for the subject "Popular Cultures")
- 2015-2019 Junior research group leader in the heiEDUCATION project at the Heidelberg School of Education and Mercator Fellow at the Frankfurt Research Training Group "Value and Equivalence" and in the winter semester 2017/18 substitute professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies
- 2012-2015 Project manager and research associate at the Centre for Contemporary History Research Potsdam
- 2011/12 Junior Fellow at the Berlin Cluster of Excellence 264 "Topoi. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations"
- 2006-2011 Research assistant and research fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (several research stays in Athens)
- 2005 Doctorate at the School of Modern Languages at the University of Tübingen
- 1999- 2001 Postgraduate studies in media studies-media practice at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen (degree: Diplom-Medienpraktiker)
- 1993-1999 Studied Pre- and Early History, Classical Archaeology, Medieval History at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen and Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Degree: Magister Artium)
Research projects (selection)
- Since 2020 "Die nationalsozialistischen Thingstätten: Un|Sichtbares Erbe im erinnerungskulturellen Diskurs" (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
- 2012-2015 "Living History: Reenacted Prehistory between Research and Popular Performance" (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, funding initiative "Science - Public - Society"), together with Frank Bösch (Centre for Contemporary History Research Potsdam) and Bernhard Tschofen (University of Tübingen; today: University of Zurich)
- 2008-2010 "Heinrich Schliemann and his excavations in the mirror of the press. Popularisation and medialisation of archaeological discoveries in the 19th century" (funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
Monographs
- Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History (Göttingen 2021), collective monograph together with Christine Gundermann et al.
- Molecular Biology and Archaeology: An Unusual Relationship (Vienna 2021).
- Archaeological Discovery as a Media Event: Heinrich Schliemann and his Excavations in Public Discourse, 1870-1890. Edition Historische Kulturwissenschaften 3 (Münster - New York 2018).
- Living History als Gegenstand Historischen Lernens: Begriffe - Problemfelder - Materialien (Stuttgart 2015), together with Miriam Sénécheau.
- Archaeology as a natural science? A polemic. Series Pamphlet Literature 5 (Berlin 2013; 2nd updated ed. 2013), together with Manfred K. H. Eggert.
- Heinrich Schliemann. UTB Profile (Tübingen - Basel 2012).
- Pre- and early historical archaeology. UTB Basics (Tübingen - Basel 2009; 2nd revised and updated ed. Edition 2013; 3rd revised and updated. Ed. 2022), together with Manfred K. H. Eggert.
- Scientific communication on the internet. New media in archaeology. @Internet Research 26 [Diss. Univ. Tübingen 2005] (Munich 2006).
Editorships
- The belt: More than just a fashion accessory (Berlin 2022).
- Special Topic "Next Generation Sequencing: Challenges for Science and Society". TATuP: Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice 30/2, 2021, together with Elsbeth Bösl.
- Weitergabe und Wiedergabe: Dimensionen des Authentischen im Umgang mit immateriellem Kulturerbe (Göttingen 2021), with Achim Saupe.
- Issue "Bildung und Identität". heiEDUCATION Journal: Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung 3, 2019, together with Christiane Wienand.
- Thematic issue "Cultural heritage". Historical social studies 48/2, 2018.
- Doing History. Performative practices in historical culture. Edition Historische Kulturwissenschaften 1 (Münster - New York 2016), together with Sarah Willner and Georg Koch.
- Handbuch Materielle Kultur: Bedeutungen, Konzepte, Disziplinen (Stuttgart - Weimar 2014), together with Manfred K. H. Eggert and Hans Peter Hahn.
- Inszenierte Wissenschaft: Zur Popularisierung von Wissen im 19. Jahrhundert. Histoire 21 (Bielefeld 2011).
- Manfred K. H. Eggert, Retrospective. Archaeology from a cultural studies perspective. Edited by M. Augstein and S. Samida (Münster et al. 2011).
Essays (selection)
- Materiality and digitality: Addendum to the current museum debate. Austrian Journal of Folklore LXXVIII/127, H. 1, 2024, 73-82.
- The NS-Thingstätten: From propagandistic mass theatre to pop-cultural mass event. Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore 2023, 103-117.
- Teaching Anthropology: Remarks from a German Perspective. Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift 57, 23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54799/HPBQ7957.
- Thing, Body, Sound: Interweavings in Musical Objects of Popular Culture. In: C. Dörfling, C. Jost & M. Pfleiderer (eds.), Music Object Histories: Popular Music and Material Culture Popular Culture and Music 32 (Münster - New York 2021) 25-44.
- Collective Collecting in Times of Transition. Saeculum 70/2, 2020 [2021], 283-299.
- People make clothes or about self-making in popular culture. Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde 52, 2020, 35-53.
- Material culture. In: V. Agnew, J. Lamb & J. Tomann (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies: Key Terms in the Field (London - New York 2020) 130-132.
- Public history and cultural heritage. In: K. Minner (ed.), Public History in Regional and State History (= Westfälische Forschungen 69) (Münster 2019) 29-51, together with Cord Arendes
- Sternzeit 11803.03: Star Trek as a field of cultural education? Swiss Archive of Folklore 114/2, 2018, 7-24.
- Battlefields as tourist destinations: On the concept of thanatourism from a cultural studies perspective. Journal for Tourism Studies 10/2, 2018, 267-290.
- Swords, heroes, a perfect world: Excalibur, Andúril & Co. In: Landesmuseum Württemberg (ed.), Faszination Schwert: Große Sonderausstellung im Landesmuseum Württemberg, 13 October 2018 - 28 April 2019, Altes Schloss, Stuttgart. Archaeology in Germany, special issue 14 (Darmstadt 2018) 75-81.
- Performing the Past: Time Travels in Archaeological Open-Air Museums. In: B. Petersson & C. Holtorf (eds.), The Archaeology of Time Travel. Experiencing the Past in the 21st Century (Oxford 2017) 135-155.