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• Prof. Sandra Mass
• Vert.-Prof. Dr. Nina Verheyen
• Dr. Lasse Heerten
• Lisa Gerlach MA
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Professor

After taking her degree in history and sociology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sandra Maß undertook doctoral studies at the European University Institute in Florence , completing them in 2004 with a thesis on the history of colonial masculinity in Germany (published 2006 by Böhlau).

During her time as a researcher in the History of the Political department at Bielefeld University , between 2004 and 2011, she worked on a study on monetary education in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (published November 2017), with which she gained her Habilitation in 2014.

In 2015, after a period deputising a professorship at the University of Cologne, she took up the position of deputy director at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, a post she held until 2017.

Her principal research interests relate to the history of Western Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the cultural history of the economy, the history of childhood, and European colonial history.

Sandra Maß has been co-editor of L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft since 2007 and took on the editor-in-chief function, alongside Prof. Christa Hämmerle, Prof. Claudia Kraft and Prof. Claudia Opitz, in 2018. She joined the selection committee of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2016.

Publications

• Sandra Maß: Zukünftige Vergangenheiten. Geschichte schreiben im Anthropozän, Göttingen 2024.
  
  
• Constructing global missionary families: Absence, memory, and belonging before World War I in: Journal of Modern European History 19, 2021, No. 3, pp. 340-361
  
  
• "Werde ein guter Staatsbürger"(To become a good citizen). Zur Politisierung von Sparsamkeit im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 70, 2020, Nr. 48 ("Schwarze Null"), P. 25-33. Online at:https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/319067/schwarze-null
  
  
• Teaching Capitalism. The Popularization of Economic Knowledge in Britain and Germany (1800-1850), in: Stefan Berger/Alexanda Przyrembel (eds.), Moralizing Capitalism. Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019, P. 29-57.
  
  
• Kinderstube des Kapitalismus? Monetäre Erziehung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Raising capitalists? Monetary education in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) Munich: De Gruyter/Oldenbourg 2017 (Publications of the German Historical Institute London, Vol. 75).
  
  
• Children, Savings Banks and Politics. The Savings Movement in the last third of the Nineteenth Century, in: FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies 4 (2017), pp. 7-18.
  
  
• Useful knowledge. Monetary education of children and the moralization of productivity in the 19th Century, in: Bänziger, Peter-Paul; Suter, Mischa (eds.): Histories of Productivity. Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy. London: Routledge 2017, pp. 74-91.
  
  
• Ed. with Margareth Lanzinger and Claudia Opitz, Ökonomien (Economies), special issue of L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 1, 2016.
  
  
• Ed. with Xenia von Tippelskirch, Faltenwürfe der Geschichte. Entdecken, entziffern, erzählen (A wrinkle in history: discovering, decoding, narrating) Festschrift for Regina Schulte. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus 2014.
  
  
• Die „Schwarze Schmach“ (The ‘Black Disgrace’). In: Gefangene Bilder. Wissenschaft und Propaganda im Ersten Weltkrieg (Imprisoned images: Science and propaganda in the First World War), ed. Historisches Museum Frankfurt. Frankfurt a.M.: Michael Imhof Verlag 2014, pp. 122-125.
  
  
• Welcome to the Jungle. Imperial Men, „Inner Africa“, and Mental Disorder, 1870–1970, in: Reinkowski, Maurus; Thum, Gregor (eds.): Helpless Imperialists. Imperial Failure, Fear and Radicalization. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck 2012, pp. 91-115.
  
  
• Formulare des Ökonomischen in der Geldpädagogik des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (Formulae of the economic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century monetary education) In:WerkstattGeschichte 58, 2012, pp. 9-28.
  
  
• Ed. with Kirsten Bönker and Hana Havelkovà, Geld-Subjekte (Subjects of/to Money), special issue of L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 2, 2011.
  
  
• Zwischen Absenz und Präsenz. Monetäre Lebensführung in der Moderne (Between absence and presence: Monetary designs for life in modern times) In: Swiss German PEN Centre (ed.), Über Geld schreibt man doch (We do, in fact, write about money) Oberhofen am Thunersee: Zytglogge 2011, pp. 40-47.
  
  
• The ‚Volkskörper’ in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar Republic. In: Ellena, Liliana; Geppert, Alexander; Passerini, Luisa (eds.): New Dangerous Liaisons: Discourses on Europe and Love in the Last Century. New York: Berghahn Books 2010, pp. 233-250.
  
  
• Mäßigung der Leidenschaften. Kinder und monetäre Lebensführung im 19. Jahrhundert (Taming the passions: Children and the use of money in the nineteenth century) In: Elberfeld, Jens; Otto, Marcus (eds.): Das schöne Selbst. Zur Genealogie desmodernen Subjekts zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik (The beautiful self: The genealogy of the modern subject between ethics and aesthetics) Bielefeld: transcript 2009, pp. 55-81.
  
  
• Weißer Mann −was nun? Ethnische Selbstverortung zwischen kontinentaler Solidarität und nationaler Identifikation nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Now what, white man? Post-First World War ethnic self-identification between continental solidarity and national affiliation) In: Bluche, Lorraine; Lipphardt, Veronika; Patel, Kiran (eds.): Der Europäer –ein Konstrukt. Wissensbestände. Diskurse. Praktiken (The construct of the European citizen: knowledge, discourses, practices) Göttingen: Wallstein 2009, pp. 57-72.
  
  
• Weiße Helden, schwarze Krieger. Zur Geschichte kolonialer Männlichkeit in Deutschland, 1918-1964 (White heroes, black warriors: The history of colonial masculinity in Germany, 1918-1964) Cologne et al.: Böhlau 2006.
  
  
• „Eine Art sublimierter Tarzan“− Die Ausbildung deutscher Entwicklungshelfer und -helferinnen als Menschentechnik in den 1960er Jahren (‘A sort of sublimated Tarzan’: Training German aid and development workers as human engineering in the 1960s) In: WerkstattGeschichte 15, 2006, 42, pp. 77-89.
  
  
• „Wir sind zu allem entschlossen: Zur Vernichtung dieser schwarzen Halbmenschen“. Gewalt, Rassismus und Männlichkeit in der deutschen Kriegspropaganda, 1914-1940 (‚We will stop at nothing to destroy these black semi-humans‘: Violence, racism and masculinity in German war propaganda, 1914-1940) In: Ethnizität und Geschlecht. (Post-)koloniale Verhandlungen in Geschichte, Kunst und Medien (Ethnicity and gender: (post-)colonial negotiations in history, art and the media), ed. Graduiertenkolleg „Identität und Differenz“, University of Trier. Cologne et al.: Böhlau 2006, pp. 137-150.