Dr. Malte Fuhrmann Curriculum Vitae
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1 Dr. Malte Fuhrmann Curriculum Vitae Address: Istanbul Bilgi University European Institute Department of International Relations Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santralı, E5 Building, Room 305 Kazım Karabekir Cad. No: 2/13 34060 Eyüp, Istanbul, Turkey Telephone: +90-212-311-7105 e-mail: [email protected] Research Interests 19th and 20th century political, cultural and social history; urban planning; global cities and collective memory; urban history (especially port cities in Mediterranean and global perspective); Ottoman-European relations; postcolonial constellations in the Euro-Mediterranean region; cosmopolitanism debate; transnational theory; migration; marginality; history of the German, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires; history of Southeast Europe; railway history; World War I and militarism; nationalism Language Skills English: fluent, German: fluent, Turkish: very good, French: good, Bulgarian: good Learning, Research, and Employment since Sept. 2016 Assistant Professor / DAAD lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University’s European Institute, International Relations Department since Sept. 2013 Lecturer for the Social Science Master Studies Program Intercultural Management at the Turkish-German University Istanbul Oct. 2014 – Sept. 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor for Cultural History of the Mediterranean at Ruhr University Bochum Sept. 2009 – Aug. 2013 Research Fellow at Orient-Institut Istanbul, working on: “The European Habitus in the Ottoman City – Urban Planning, Cultural Practices, and Conflict in the 19th and 21st Century”; lecturer at Boğaziçi University History Department (2011) Oct. 2008 – Aug. 2009 Assistant Professor for European History at Fatih University Istanbul Jan. 2006 – Sept. 2008 Research Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, working on: “European and Balkan Migrant Workers in the Late Ottoman Port Cities” May – Dec. 2005 Visiting Researcher at Orient-Institut Istanbul, working on: “The German-Ottoman Military Cooperation as an Intercultural Process” Oct. 1999 – Apr. 2005 Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin: “Constructing a German Orient – Germans in Western Anatolia/Izmir and Macedonia/Salonica 1851 to 1918“; advisors: Prof. Holm Sundhaussen and Prof. Karl Kaser (Graz) Oct. 1991 – Sept. 1999 Studied History and Balkanology at Freie Universität Berlin; M.A. Thesis: “Housing Revolt and Butter Revolution – Collective Social Protest in the Founding Years of the Reich”; advisors: Prof. Heinrich Volkmann and Prof. Jürgen Kocka Until June 1989 School in Bangkok/Thailand, Westwood, Mass./USA, Bonn; graduated in Bonn 2 Dr. Malte Fuhrmann Third-Party-Funding and Cooperation Prizes Received award for best book on colonialism 2006/2007 (see Publications) Projects Funded by Third Parties and Scholarships in future “Developmentality in Southeastern Europe: The Evolution of a Paradigm on Progress in Bulgaria and Turkey in the Discussion on Traffic Infrastructure (1908-1989)” (DFG/German Research Foundation, 278,150 € approved) Feb. 2011 – July 2013 Heading and coordinating the book project Bursa and Germans in History (Bursa Municipality 15,000 €) Jan. 2011 – Feb. 2013 Coordinating Orient-Institut Istanbul’s cooperation with the History Foundation (Tarih Vakfı) on World War I history prior to successful funding application Dec. 2010 Conference Urban Landscapes of Modernity: Istanbul and the Ruhr Area 2010 (see below), (Mercator Foundation 17,000 €, Istanbul Bilgi University 4,000 €) Jan. – Sept. 2008 “Being European in the Late Ottoman Port Cities: A Social and Cultural Transformation in a Politically Mined Field” as subproject of the Zentrum Moderner Orient’s research agenda “Worlds of Islam”, financed by the German Research Ministry (my subproject received ca. 130,000 €) Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2007 “European and Balkan Labor Migrants in the Late Ottoman Port Cities” as subproject of the Zentrum Moderner Orient’s research agenda on “Translocality”, funded by DFG (my subproject received 134,600 €) May – Dec. 2005 “The German-Turkish Military Cooperation as an Intercultural Process”; Postdoc Scholarship awarded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung (20,600 €) April 2001 – Sept. 2003 “Constructing a German Orient – Germans in Western Anatolia/Izmir and Macedonia/Salonica1851 to 1918“; Berlin State Ph.D. scholarship (Nafög; 21,500 € as well as ample travel expenses) Coordination of Academic Events in Cooperation 17 Oct. 2012 – 27 Feb. 2013 Reclaiming Istanbul: Public Spaces in Past and Present (lecture series), Orient- Institut Istanbul in cooperation with Koç University 7 – 9 June 2012 Historical and Contemporary Representations of Europe: Turkey, Persia, the Arab World, and Russia, 1850s-1910s and the 1990s to Present (conference) Orient-Institut Istanbul in cooperation with Humboldt-University (SFB) and Zentrum Moderner Orient (together with Ahmed Badawi) 15 – 18 December 2010 Urban Landscapes of Modernity: Istanbul and the Ruhr Area 2010 (conference), in cooperation with Istanbul Bilgi University and Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebietes (together with M. Erdem Kabadayı and Jürgen Mittag) 10 – 11 May 2007 Migrations and Urban Institutions in the late Ottoman Reform Period, Zentrum Moderner Orient (together with Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler; see also Edited Volumes and Journals) 21 – 25 March 2007 The Late Ottoman Port Cities: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders (Workshop) at 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting, EUI, Florence (together with Vangelis Kechriotis, see also Edited Volumes and Journals) 3 Dr. Malte Fuhrmann Teaching and Practical Experience 2016 – 2017 Fall Semester Istanbul Bilgi University (BA) Colonialism in the World (BA) Middle East History Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History 2016 Spring Semester, Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example 2015 – 2016 Fall Semester, Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History 2015 Spring Semester Ruhr University Bochum (BA/MA) Translocal Transgressions: Crossing Borders in the Mediterranean World since 1700 (BA/MA) “Making History”: Enacting the Past in the Mediterranean Region from the 18th Century until the Present (Graduate Seminar) History of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th Century (together with Fabian Lemmes) Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example 2014 – 2015 Fall Semester Ruhr University Bochum (BA/MA) Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th Century: A Refuge for Cosmopolitan Conviviality? (BA/MA) Travelogues as Sources for a Transnational History of the Mediterranean (Graduate Seminar) History of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th Century (together with Fabian Lemmes) Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History 2014 Spring Semester, Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Intercultural History – The German-Turkish Example 2013 – 2014 Fall Semester, Turkish German University Istanbul Intercultural Management (MA Studies Program): Introduction to the Theory of Intercultural History 2011 Spring Semester, Boğaziçi University Istanbul (BA/MA) HIST 48H: Germany 1871–1918 – The Making of a Great Power and its Colonies 2009 Spring Semester, Fatih University Istanbul (BA) HIST 226: History of Modern Europe (BA) HIST 320: History of Colonialism/Introduction to Postcolonial Studies (BA) HIST 404: Historiography II (BA) HIST 428: History of the Balkans 4 Dr. Malte Fuhrmann Teaching and Practical Experience 2008 – 2009 Fall Semester, Fatih University Istanbul (BA) HIST 221: History of Medieval Europe (BA) HIST 229: History of the Crusades/Christian and Muslim Holy War (BA) HIST 435: Selected Topics: New Approaches to the Study of Nationalism (MA) HIST 521: Studies in European History: Cultural Studies Practical Experience Sept. 2002 Regional coordinator of OSCE election monitoring for Veles Region, R. Macedonia May 2002 Election monitoring of municipal elections in Montenegro for OSCE Dec. 2000 Election monitoring of parliamentary elections in Serbia for OSCE Nov. 2000 – March 2001 Press analyst for Deutsche Medienbeobachtungsagentur (Media Watch Agency) Dec. 1999 – Feb. 2000 Election monitoring of parliamentary and presidential elections in Croatia for OSCE Sept. 1997 Election monitoring of municipal elections in Bosnia and Hercegovina for OSCE 5 Dr. Malte Fuhrmann Publications Monographies 1. “A Corner of Europe:” Residents, Trans-Imperial Subjects, and the Making of Modern Urban Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities, 1800-1914 (in preparation). 2. Der Traum vom deutschen Orient. Zwei deutsche Kolonien im Osmanischen Reich 1851-1918 (Imagining a German Orient: Two German Colonies in the Ottoman Empire 1851-1918, Ph.D. thesis), Frankfurt (M.): Campus 2006, 419 pages. Received award as best book on colonialism 2006/2007 (Damals 12/2007). Der Traum vom deutschen Orient has been reviewed by: Claus H. Bill, in Nobilitas – Zeitschrift für deutsche Adelsforschung 45/2007, 44-46. Dennis Dierks, in Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 47 (3/2007), 125-126. Andreas Eckert, in FAZ 17 Nov. 2006, http://www.faz.net/s/RubC17179D529AB4E2BBEDB 095D7C41F468/Doc~EAC66B534FE9F4CBB9D3A01552260229A~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html . Götz