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Merle Ingenfeld 

Institute of North American History
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne
 

E-Mail: m.ingenfeld[at]uni-bonn.de 

Curriculm vitae

2019–2020 | Study stay at Carleton University as part of my Cotutelle doctoral program

Since 2019 | Doctoral studies at Carleton University in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), supervised by Prof. Dr. Jennifer Evans

2018–2021 | Fellow in the “Global Track” of the a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities Program (MSCA Co-Fund, University of Cologne/European Union)

2018–2019 | Nine-month research stay on the East Coast of the United States as a Long-Term Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington

2017/2018 | Six-month “pre-doc” scholarship from the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School

Since 2017 | Doctoral studies in Modern History, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anke Ortlepp and Prof. (emeritus) Dr. Norbert Finzsch

2013–2016 | Master’s degree in North American Studies with a focus on History and Economics in Bonn and Cologne (M.A., University of Bonn, 2016)

2013–2018 | Social Media and Project Assistant, Head Office of the Max Weber Foundation, Bonn

2012 | Erasmus semester in Modern History at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK)

2010–2013 | Student Assistant at the Chair of Constitutional, Economic, and Social History, University of Bonn

2009–2013 | Bachelor’s degree in History and Media Communication at the University of Bonn (B.A., 2013)

2009 | Abitur at Gymnasium Frechen

Presentations and Publications

“Conference Report: Entangling the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds: Past and Present. A Symposium Commemorating Helmut Schmidt, 25.03.2019 – 27.03.2019 Berkeley”, GHI Bulletin 65 (Fall 2019), S. 147-151; ebenfalls online verfügbar auf HSozKult (1 October 2019).

“Review of ‘The Straight Line. How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality’ by Tom Waidzunas (Minneapolis 2015)”, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History Newsletter (Fall 2018), S. 8–11.

“Neither Really Global nor Imperial? – How to Conceptualise Connectivity over Countries, Empires, Continents and Oceans” (together with Tom Menger), GRAINES: Graduate Interdisciplinary Network for European Studies, 13 June 2018.

„Butler, transregional? – Anmerkungen zu Judith Butlers Vorträgen an der Uni Köln“, Trafo – Blog for Transregional Research, 27 January 2017.

More: ORCiD 0000-0002-4585-024X.

Research Project

The ‘Cure’: A Transnational History of (Homo-)Sexual Conversion Therapy, ca. 1933-1973

This project is part of the a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities program of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne. The a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities program is co-funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of Horizon 2020, the European Union's research and innovation program (MSCA Grant Agreement No. 713600).

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