Postal address
Helmut Schmidt University
P.O. Box 70 08 22
22008 Hamburg
Visitor address
Helmut Schmidt University
Building H4
Holstenhofweg 85
22043 Hamburg
Short Biography
Since 2017: Professorship of Education with a Focus on the History of Ideas and Historical Discourse Analysis, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg
2014–2016: Project “Von der Meisterlehre zur dualen Berufsbildung. Zur Entwicklung und Durchsetzung des dualen Modells im Kontext der Bildungsexpansion (1960–2010)” (University of Zurich, Prof. P. Gonon), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
2012–2015: Interim Professorship for Educational Theory and Educational Research at the University of Potsdam
2009–2012: Project “Entwicklung und Dynamik der schweizerischen Berufsbildung: eine akteurs- und pfadgebundene Perspektive” (University of Zurich, Prof. P. Gonon), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
2010: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Zurich with the thesis “Im Zeichen von Vernunft und Christentum. Die Zürcher Landschulreform im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert” (published 2010 by Böhlau-Verlag, Beiträge zur Historischen Bildungsforschung, vol. 40)
2001–2009: Assistant / Senior Assistant to the Chair of History and Philosophy of Education, Prof. J. Oelkers, University of Zurich
1993–2000: Studies in German Linguistics and Literature, Education and Philosophy at the University of Zurich
Research Focus
The history of education and the body
Pedagogy and the military in historical perspective
Historical research on vocational education and training
Education and labour in conventional sociological perspective
Further Academic Activities
Since 2020: Co-editor of the ‘Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue’ (History of Education)
Since 2015: Member of the editorial board of the ‘Jahrbuch für Historische Bildungsforschung’
Member of the scientific advisory board for the series ‘Sociology of Convention’, Wiesbaden: Springer
Member of the Hamburg Network of Historical Educational Science
Letzte Änderung: 26. October 2021