Dr. Florian Wagner

Research Interests

• Colonial History, African History, Colonial Internationalism, History of International Organizations, Global History, History ofScience and Knowledge, Environmental History, History of Agriculture and Consumption, History of Western Europe.
  

Academic Employment and Education

• January 2017-2023
  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)