Qualifications
I. Staatsexamen, Freiburg University: History, German, Pedagogics
PhD Durham, German Department
Teaching
- German History and Society
- Contemporary Germany
- German Language Skills
- Final Year Dissertation
- Postgraduate research supervised: Migration; GDR
Membership of Professional Bodies
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected)
Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (elected)
German History Society
Association for German Studies
Research Interests
Migration Studies, Anglo-German Relations, German History/Politics/Area Studies
Funding
2012: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-Fellowship, £40,000
2011: University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA), research visit, $3,000
2011: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), research, visiting scholar at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, €2,000
2009-10: Aston Centre for Learning Innovation and Professional Practice (CLIPP) to lead Curriculum Harmonisation Project in Languages and Translation Studies, £2,000
2007: British Academy International Conference Grant (San Diego, USA), £500
2003-4: Principal Investigator, British Academy International Network ‘Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914’, £10,000
2002: Conference of University Teachers of German, publication scholarship, £500
Publications
Monograph
Migranten und Internierte. Deutsche in Glasgow 1864-1918, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2003 (Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke Gesellschaft/Publications of the Ranke Society vol. 52)
Edited volumes and special issues
with John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (ed.), Transnational Networks. German Migrants in the British Empire, 1660-1914, Amsterdam: Brill, forthcoming
with Panikos Panayi (ed.), Refugees in Britain. Cultural and Political Transfers since c1830, Abingdon: Routledge (also special issue of Immigrants and Minorities), forthcoming 2012
with Ljiljana Saric, Andreas Musolff, Ingrid Hudabiunigg (ed.), Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim. Cultural Identities in Public Discourse, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters 2010
with John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (ed.), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914, Munich: Saur 2007 (Prince Albert Research Publications)
with Andreas Musolff, Jonathan Long, Ljiljana Saric (ed.), Discourses of Intercultural Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters 2004 (Special Issue of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol 25: 5&6, 2004)
Refereed journal articles
Protestantism, Nation and Diaspora in Imperial Germany, in Nations & Nationalism (forthcoming)
Nationalism Gone Global. The ‘Hauptverein Deutscher Flottenvereine im Auslande’ 1898-1918, in German History (forthcoming 2012)
Intercultural Transfer and Artistic Innovation. German Musicians in Victorian Britain, in German Life and Letters (forthcoming)
Negotiating Ethnicity, Class, and Gender. German Associational Culture in Glasgow 1864-1914, in Immigrants and Minorities (forthcoming)
Joseph Mainzer (1801-1851) and the Popularisation of Choral Singing in Britain, in Immigrants and Minorities 30 (2011), pp. 1-19
Translating Nietzsche, Mediating Literature. Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer, in Neophilologus 91 (2007), pp. 117-134
‘Enemy Aliens’ in Scotland during the First World War, in Yearbook of the Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 7 (2005), pp. 83-100
Constructing a Normative National Identity: The Leitkultur-Debate in Germany, 2000/2001, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25: 5&6 (2004), pp. 481-496
with Andreas Musolff, Jonathan Long, Ljiljana Saric, Introduction, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25: 5&6 (2004), pp. 361-368
‘Our sworn, subtle, savage, implacable and perfidious foe!’ - Germanophobia and Spy-fever in Scotland, 1914-1918, in Irish-German Studies 1 (2004), pp. 28-37
‘Wir stehen fest zusammen/Zu Kaiser und zu Reich!’ - Nationalism among Germans in Britain, 1871-1918, in German Life and Letters 55 (2002), pp. 398-415
New Evidence on Stobs Internment Camp, 1914-1919, in Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions 2002, pp. 259-269
Technologietransfer und Spezialistenwanderung. Eine Augsburger Lagerbrauerei in Glasgow, 1889-1956, in Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 2 (2000), pp. 225-247
Chapters in edited books and encyclopedias
with Panikos Panayi, Introduction: Refugees in Britain. Cultural and Political Transfers since c1830, in Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi (ed.), Refugees in Britain. Cultural and Political Transfers since c1830, Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming
Expellees, Counterfactualism and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-national Debates in Polish-German Relations, in Ljiljana Saric, Andreas Musolff, Ingrid Hudabiunigg, Stefan Manz (ed.). Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim. Cultural Identities in Public Dicourse, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2010, pp. 1-15
with John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, Introduction: Towards an Anglo-German Histoire Croisée. Migrants, Transfers and Cross-national Entanglements, in idem. (ed.), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660 to 1914, Munich: Saur 2007, pp. 9-18
Management Transfer in the Textile Industry: Otto Ernst Philippi at J. & P. Coats, 1878-1917, in Stefan Manz, John Davis, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (eds.), Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, c.1660 to 1914, Munich: Saur 2007, pp. 161-174
Deutsche Unternehmer und Ingenieure als Reisende zur Marktorientierung und zur Industriespionage in Groβbritannien im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, in Klaus J. Bade et. al. (ed.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa. Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Paderborn: Schöningh 2007, pp. 523-525
Peacemaker and Warmonger. Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer, in Fred Bridgham (ed.), World War I as a Clash of Cultures, New York: Camden House 2006, pp. 215-230
Entry on 17 June 1953 Uprising, in German Culture and Society. The Essential Glossary, ed. by H. Briel, London: Arnold 2002, pp. 74f.
Reviews
For Historische Zeitschrift, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Debatte, geschichte.transnational, Vierteljahreshefte für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, German Politics