PD Dr. Jonas Kreienbaum

Historisches Institut der Universität Rostock
Neuer Markt 3
18055 Rostock


E-Mail: jonas.kreienbaum@uni-rostock.de

Research Interests

  • Empires and Colonialism

  • Postcolonial North-South-Relations

  • Economic Crises

  • Mass Violence and Genocide

  • Global History

Current Research Project

  • Neoliberal Globalization or “Global Disconnect”? International Financial Institutions, Western Donors, Zambia and the History of Structural Adjustment Programs (ca. 1976-1991)
  • The Kaiser, the Berlin Palace and German Colonialism
  • The Diary of Non-Commissioned Officer Kurt Axt from German South West Africa, 1904/05 – a Source Edition (with Marie Muschalek)

Biography

  • 2023-2026 Principal Investigator (DFG project “Neoliberal Globalization or ‘Global Disconnect?’”) at the Research Area “Global History” at Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2022-2023 Researcher for the Humboldt-Forum Berlin, project “Colonialism and Coloniality of the site”

  • since 2021 Privatdozent at the Universität Rostock

  • 2012-2021 lecturer at the chair for European and Modern History at the Universität Rostock (Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Hirschhausen)

  • 2013-2020: Working on a habilitation thesis entitled “Das Öl und der Kampf um eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung – Die Bedeutung der Ölkrisen der 1970er Jahre für die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen,” habilitation colloquium 10 July 2020 at the University of Rostock

  • 2018-2019: Research Scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung

  • 2016: Post-Doc Scholarship at the German Historical Institute in London

  • 2008-2013: several teaching assignments at the Humboldt-Universität

  • 2008-2013: Working on a PhD-thesis entitled “A sad fiasco. Koloniale Konzentrationslager um 1900” (A Sad Fiasco. Colonial Concentration Camps around 1900), funded by an Elsa-Neumann scholarship, defended on 11 June 2013 at the Humboldt-Universität

  • 2008: Completed as Magister Artium with a thesis on “Koloniale Gewaltexzesse um 1900 – Ein internationaler Vergleich” (Colonial Excesses of Violence – An International Comparison)

  • 2001-2008: Studies in History, Philosophy and Political Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Nottingham

  • Born in Bochum in 1982

Memberships/Functions

  • Founding member of the Arbeitskreis Geschichte – Gesellschaft – Gewalt (History –Society – Violence)

  • Member of the German Association for British Studies

  • Member of the German Historical Society

  • Member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

  • Member of the Transimperial History Network

  • Member of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands

Publications and Talks