Dr. Stephan Fender

Education

• 01/08/2011-20/12/2016: PhD in History,  University of Hamburg; Supervisor: Ulrich Mücke; DFG Research Group: “Actors of Globalization, 1860 – 1930”, led by Sebastian Conrad and Andreas Eckert at FU Berlin El Mundo al Revés – A Local Perspective on the Global Entanglement of Urban Labor, Mexico City 1910 – 1929. Brief Synopsis: El Mundo al Revés examines the global entanglement of the labor movement in revolutionary Mexico City. The study deals with the reception, interpretation, and utilization of global influences and caesuras by local actors and with the processes of cultural transformation and identity construction in the Mexican movement.
• 10/06/2012-20/05/2013: Research in Mexico City. Worked at Archivo General de la Nación, Hemeroteca Nacional, Archivo Histórico del Distrito Federal, Centro de Estudios Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Centro de Estudios del Movimiento Obrero y Socialista, El Colegio de México, and Biblioteca de las Revoluciones.
• 01/04/2003 -14/07/2011: MA in History, Political Science, and Latin-American Studies, University of Hamburg. Thesis: "International Relations in the Mexican Labor Press, 1910 – 1917". First Class.
• 01/07/2008 - 30/01/2009: El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Participation in the PhD-program at the Centro de Estudios Históricos funded by DAAD.
• 01/09/2006-01/07/2007: ERASMUS-exchange with the Universitat de Barcelona. Participation in ERASMUS-exchange program.

Work Experience

• 01/08/2021-2024: Gerda Henkel Foundation Research Fellow; Project “Mexico, 1895 – 1940. A Global History”
• 01/09/2019-31/08/2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin – IRC Laureate, Teaching: Global Revolutions (Masters course level 4).
• 01/10/2018-31/03/2019: Scientific Assistant, University of Hamburg. Teaching: Global History of the Mexican Revolution and Oral History in Theory and Practice
• 01/04/2018-30/09/2018: Teaching Assignment, University of Hamburg, Public History Department. Gentrification of Working-Class Neighborhoods in Hamburg
• 01/09/2017-30/04/2018: Scientific Assistant, University of Hamburg. Teaching: Music and Subculture in Hamburg’s Gängeviertel   
• 01/08/2011-16/10/2014: Scientific Assistant at Hamburg University, Position Responsibilities: Conduct independent research projects, editorial work, conference participation and presentations, cooperation with the research group “Actors of Globalization, 1860 – 1930” at FU Berlin. 

Supervision and Mentoring

• 01/05/2020-01/02/2021: Supervision of student project – University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Creation of a digital, interactive archive in the Vor-Gänge; including three Master’s theses.
• 01/09/2018- 01/07/2019: Supervision of student project – HAW, Remodeling of the Museum Vor-Gänge; Exhibition, marketing, outreach, crowdfunding; including one Bachelor’s and one Master’s thesis; awarded with the Ditze-Preis for best thesis project.
• 01/12/2018-31/03/2019: Supervision of student interview project – University of Hamburg, Oral History interviews with residents of Hamburg’s lower-class inner-city neighborhoods
• 01/08/2017- 30/08/2018: Supervision guided tour student project – HAW, Interactive guided tour through Hamburg’s Gängeviertel; Including content, design, and website
• 01/09/2017-31/03/2018: Supervision of student radio project – University of Hamburg, Production of a radio-show on the British Forces Network at Hamburg’s Music Hall; broadcasted by FSK Hamburg.
• 01/09/2017 - 31/01/2018: Supervision of student reenactment project – University of Hamburg, Reenactment of a 19th century working-class bar in Hamburg’s city center; including source work, theater, labor choir, and exhibition; staged at Jupi Bar
• 01/09/2017-31/01/2018: Supervision of student exhibition project – University of Hamburg, Exhibition on Beat Generation and Rock and roll night-life and musical culture in Hamburg; presented at Galerie linksrechts

Publications 

• The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910 – 1929: El Mundo al Revés (New York: Routledge, 2020).
• „A Revolution within the Revolución: Global Labor Politics in Mexico City”, Age of Revolutions. https://ageofrevolutions.com/2016/07/25/a-revolution-within-the-revolucion-global-labor-politics-in-mexico-city/ (accessed 18 May 2021).
• „Kaffee global, regional, lokal – zur Geschichte eines Genussmittels im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH), 6. – 8. Dezember 2012,“ in Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg – Nachrichten aus der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (FZH) 2012 (Hamburg, 2013), 101 – 107.

Non-academic publications

• „Alles Allen!,“ in Das war der Gipfel – Die Proteste gegen G20 in Hamburg, Hg. GoGoGo (Hamburg: Assoziation A, 2018), 148 – 150.
• „Mehr als ein Viertel,“ in Mehr als ein Viertel: Ansichten und Absichten aus dem Hamburger Gängeviertel, Hg. Gängeviertel e.V. (Hamburg: Assoziation A, 2012), 21 – 36.

Invited presentations

• November 2019: 1919 in Global Context, Marsh’s Library Dublin
• October 2016: Globalizing the History of Revolutions – Revolutions in the Age of Acceleration, University College Dublin
• September 2016:  51. Deutscher Historikertag, Universität Hamburg 
• September 2014: 4th European Congress on World and Global History,  École normale supérieure Paris 
• October 2011: Neuere Forschungen zur Geschichte Lateinamerikas, Katholische Universität Eichstätt