.:Research Interests                               Deutsche Version

Transnational and comparative history (19th - 20th centuries), with special focus on:

  • Transformation of the State: Urban violence, (inner) security, policing, terrorism
  • Juvenile delinquency/violence and consumption in urban spaces
  • Labour, industrial relations, social protest, national socialist economic and social policies


Current Research Projects
  • A Return of a Many-headed Hydra c. 1916-23? Local protests and global networks in Hamburg, Glasgow, and Seattle
  • Urban Cultures of Violence since the 19th Century
  • Drug Consumption and the State in Germany and England since the 19th Century
  • Writing Contemporary History
  • History of urban sociology/anthropology
  • Malaria in Coastal Societies: Local order, the central state and global networks since the 18th century