Dr. Florian Wagner

•  2024 to present Principal Investigator, “Voluntariness in the History of Return Migration”, interdisciplinary DFG Research Group “Voluntariness”, University of Erfurt (Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat). Independent position funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 

• January 2017—2024 Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) University of Erfurt, Contemporary European and Global History (Prof. Christiane Kuller)

• September 2018—May 2019  Tandem—Fellow ‘Migration and Knowledge’ at GHI—West, University of California Berkeley

• Starting in January 2018 Member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Freiwilligkeit/Voluntariness in History (Spokesman: Prof. Jürgen Martschukat

• Starting January 2017 Associated Researcher Center for the Study of Hamburg’s Colonial and Global History (Prof. Jürgen Zimmerer)

• March—December 2016 Post—Doc Researcher University of Hamburg, Center for the Study of Hamburg’s Colonial and Global History (Prof. Jürgen Zimmerer)

• May 2016 PhD in History, European University Institute (dissertation committee: Prof. A. Dirk Moses, Prof. Jörn Leonhard, Prof. Frederick Cooper, Prof. Ann Thomson)

• Winter 2015 Guest Member of the German Studies Group “Der Kreis”, University of Berkeley

• October—December 2013 PhD Exchange Student at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

• June—September 2013 Research Fellowship at the German Historical Institute, Paris

• 2011—2016 PhD Candidate at the European University Institute Florence

• 2011 Assistant Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Rostock, Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Hirschhausen; Winner of the Marc—Bloch—Prize (ex—aequo, European University Institute) for the M.A. thesis

• 2010—2011 Assistant Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard

• Winter 2009—2010 Research Assistant, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of History; Research Project “Empires– Chancen und Krisen multiethnischer Großreiche im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert”

• Summer 2009 Tutorial Instructor, Seminar für Zeitgeschichte, University of Tübingen

• 2009  M.A., University of Tübingen (advisor Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Langewiesche)

  Maîtrise Sciences Historiques et Humanités (Université de Provence, advisor MdC Catherine Atlan)

• 2006 B.A. History, University of Tübingen; Licence d’Histoire, University of Aix—en—Provence; Diplôme d’Université Arabe, University of Aix—en—Provence

Publications 

• Florian Wagner, “Private Colonialism and International Co—operation in Europe”, 1870—1914, in: Roland Cvetkovski and Volker Barth (ed.), Imperial Co—operation and Transfer, 1870—1930: Empires and Encounters (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 79—105: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/imperial—co—operation—and—transfer—1870—1930—9781472592132/ 
• Florian Wagner, “Kolonialverbände in Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien und Belgien. Von der kolonialpraktischen Kooperation zum ‘europäischen Ideal’ (1880—1914)“, in: Frank Bösch and Florian Greiner (ed.), Europabilder im 20. Jahrhundert. Entstehung an der Peripherie (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012), p. 27—53: http://www.wallstein—verlag.de/9783835311732—europabilder—im—20—jahrhundert.html
• Florian Wagner, “The Pitfalls of Teaching a Common Colonial Past. Colonial Internationalism and the Invention of a Shared European History (1830s—1960s)”, in: Susanne Popp, Katja Gorbahn, Susanne Grindel (ed.), Colonialism and History Teaching (New York: Berghahn, submitted)
• Florian Wagner, “Modernizing Colonial Agronomy by Knowledge Transfers: Africa between the Western and the Eastern Model”, in: B. Bennett and U. Kirchberger, Ecological Networks and Transfers in Colonial Contexts (University of North Carolina Press, in preparation)
• Florian Wagner, “Regards croisés sur le Togo. Les enjeux du débat franco—allemand dans l'entre—deux guerres (1919—1939)”, in: Recherche en Anthropologie et en Histoire de l'Afrique 25 (2007—2008

Reviews

• Florian Wagner, “Bradley Naranch, Geoff Eley, (eds.) German Colonialism in a Global Age (Durham 2015), in European Review of History 23, 1—2 (2016), 332—334: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2016.1150655
• Florian Wagner, “Robert Aldrich, Kirsten McKenzie et al (ed.),The Routledge History of Western Empires (London 2014), in European Review of History 22,5 (2015), 843—845: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13507486.2015.1064241
• Florian Wagner, “Christian Koller, Die Fremdenlegion. Kolonialismus, Söldnertum, Gewalt. 1831–1962 (Paderborn 2013)“, in Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar 4,8 (2015): http://ruhm.es/index.php/RUHM/article/view/129
• Florian Wagner, “Gigant des Nordens, eine gigantische Verklärung? – Nachbetrachtung zur filmischen Dokumentation über den Aufstieg des Hamburger Hafens”, auf dem Blog der Forschungsstelle Hamburgs (post—) koloniales Erbe (Juni 2016): http://bit.ly/1O5lIz1

Teaching Experience

• 2010, University of Freiburg: Seminar A Comparative History of Colonialism in Germany, France and Spain (1880—1914), (“Übung” for international graduate students)
• 2010—2011, University of Freiburg: Seminar Controversies about Colonial History since 1945 (“Übung” for graduate students)
• 2011, University of Rostock: Seminar European Colonialism in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Africa (“Übung” for undergraduate students)
• 2012—2014, EUI Florence: Organizer of the Imperial History Working Group
• 2015, EUI Florence: Teacher Training Certificate, EUI Florence (Components: designing university teaching, assessment and feedback, evaluating teaching, lecture planning and delivery, small group teaching, classroom management, simulation of a short lecture with feedback)