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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Historisches Seminar
Lehrstuhl Patel
Postfach 105
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Historisches Seminar
Lehrstuhl Patel
Schellingstraße 12
Room
K 134
Phone
+49 (0) 89 / 2180-5580
Office hours
Thursday, 5-6 p.m. or by prior appointment via e-mail
Short CV
Anne Friedrichs is currently Visiting Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from October 2023 to March 2027. Since 2018, she has been a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History (currently on leave) and Principal Investigator of a project titled "From 'Displaced Persons' to 'Refugee': Legal-Bureaucratic Categorization in the Postwar Period” at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1482) on “Human Differentiation.”
In her research and teaching, she combines the history of Europe in its Atlantic, imperial, and postcolonial contexts from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century with a methodological-conceptual orientation. Thematically, she focuses on the transformation of societies through the lens of mobility and conflicts over multiple belonging, as well as on the production and transfer of (post)colonial knowledge. She is also currently working on the history of displacement and displaced persons after 1945, as well as the rights of “nature” since the nineteenth century.
After studying history and cultural studies (Kulturwissenschaften) in Leipzig and Lyon and completing fellowships at Cambridge and Paris, Anne Friedrichs received her doctorate on the basis of a thesis on British and French historiography and the transformation of historical knowledge in imperial nation states of the twentieth century. She then served on the Presidential Committee at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2010-2015) and completed research fellowships in Warsaw and Paris (2014-2015). She has also worked as an associate professor in Bielefeld (2015-2017) and Gießen (2017-2018). In 2023, she habilitated with a study on “Belonging in Transition: A European History of the ‘Ruhr Poles’ and Their Societies, 1860–1950” at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
More information: https://www.ieg-mainz.de/en/institute/people/friedrichs
Selected Publications
- The Re-making of a Europe of Differences: Mobile Lives and the Globalization of Categories in Revolutionary and Post-imperial Times (c.1770–1970), in: European Review of History: Revue Européenne d'histoire 32, 1 (2025), S. 20–44. Link zur Publikation.
- Charting the Boundaries of Societies in a Trans-European Perspective: The “Ruhr Poles” in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, in: Annales HSS: English Edition 2024 [zuerst auf Französisch als: Tracer les limites des sociétés dans une perspective transeuropéenne: Les « Polonais de la Ruhr » à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle’, in: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 76, 3 (2021), S. 489–529].
- Zugehörigkeit im Wandel. Eine europäische Gesellschaftsgeschichte der „Ruhrpolen”, 1860–1950 (Manuskript der Habilitationsschrift, Mainz 2022).
- Migration. Dossier, hg.v. Anne Friedrichs und Bettina Severin-Barboutie [=Annales HSS 76, no. 3 (2021)], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021.
- Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the 19th to the 21st Century. Special issue, hg.v. Anne Friedrichs, Margit Fauser und Levke Harders [= Journal of Borderlands Studies 34, 4 (2019)], London: Taylor & Francis 2019. Unveränderter Neuabdruck, London: Routledge 2021.
- Migration, Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit, Themenheft, hg. v. Anne Friedrichs [= Geschichte und Gesellschaft 44, 2 (2018)], Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2018.
- Zwischen Nationalisierung und Universalisierung: Die britische und die französische Geschichtswissenschaft im Vergleich (1919–1939), in: Historische Zeitschrift 304, 1 (2017), S. 90–122.
- Das Empire als Aufgabe des Historikers: Historiographie in imperialen Nationalstaaten. Großbritannien und Frankreich 1919–1968, Frankfurt a. M.: Campus 2011 (ausgezeichnet mit dem Johannes Zilkens-Promotionspreis 2012 der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
Ongoing Research Projects
- SFB-Project (Prof. Dr. Anne, Friedrichs, Christina Wirth, M.Ed.): From “Displaced Persons“ to “Refugee” Legal-Bureaucratic Human Categorization in the Postwar Period