Dr. Maria Framke

University of Rostock
Historical Institute
Neuer Markt 3, Room 419
D-18055 Rostock

Tel.: +49 381 498-2724
E-Mail: maria.framke@uni-rostock.de

Research Interests

  • modern South Asian history
  • colonialism and imperialism
  • fascism
  • transnational history
  • the history of humanitarianism

Current Reasearch Project

Biography

  • since April 2015: lecturer at the Chair for European and Contemporary History at the University of Rostock
  • 2013-2015: post-doc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on, the research project ‘South Asian Humanitarianism in armed conflicts, 1899-1949’
  • 2011-2012: research fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Changing Representations of Social Order (SFB 640)’ at, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2011: PhD, Jacobs University Bremen., Thesis: ‘The Perception and Impact of Fascism and National Socialism in India, 1922-1939’, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné, funded by the ‘Global History Scholarship’ of from the WBG and supported by scholarships of the DHI London, the DHI Rom and the DAAD
  • 2010-2011: coordination of the DAAD project ‘A New Passage to India’ at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the, University of Göttingen
  • 2009-2014: teaching assignments at Humboldt University of Berlin and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • 2007: M.A. in History and History and Society in South Asia, Humboldt University of Berlin, Free University of Berlin and School of Oriental and African Studies London

Memberships/Functions

  • IZSAF – Interdisciplinary Journal of South Asia Research, editor
  • co-founder of Y-SASM (Young South Asia Scholars Meet), Berlin 2010.
  • member of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
  • member of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
  • review editor for South Asian history, H-Soz-Kult

Selected Publications