.: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