jan christian jansen

JANCHRISTIANJANSEN
GERMANHISTORICALINSTITUTE
1607NEWHAMPSHIREAVE.NW
WASHINGTONDC20009,U.S.A.
+12023873355,JANSEN@GHI‐DC.ORG
MAINAREASOFINTEREST
ModernEuropean,NorthAfricanandMediterraneanHistory;AtlanticHistory;Comparative
ColonialandImperialHistory;Decolonization;MemoryStudies;MigrationStudies;Global
HistoryofSociabilityandFreemasonry.
EDUCATION
2011
Ph.D.inHistory(“Summacumlaude”),UniversityofKonstanz
2005
M.A.inModernandContemporaryHistory,Sociology,andPhilosophy
(“withdistinction”),UniversityofFreiburg
1999–2005
UndergraduateandGraduateStudiesinModernandContemporary
History,Sociology,andPhilosophyattheUniversityofFreiburg,
UniversitédeParisIV‐Sorbonne,EcoledesHautesEtudesenSciences
Sociales(EHESS)inParis,andUniversityofBasel
EMPLOYMENT
sinceMay2014
ResearchFellow,GermanHistoricalInstitute,WashingtonDC
2011–2014
Fellow,ResearchGroup“GlobalProcesses”,ModernandContemporary
History,UniversityofKonstanz
2011
VisitingResearcher,InstitutdeRecherchesurleMaghrebContemporain
(IRMC),Tunis
2009–2011
AssistantProfessor(AkademischerMitarbeiter),Modernand
ContemporaryHistory,UniversityofKonstanz
2009
VisitingResearchStudent,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies(SOAS),
London
FELLOWSHIPS,GRANTS,ANDHONORS
2012
YoungResearchersAward(PreiszurFörderungdesWissenschaftlichen
Nachwuchses),UniversityofKonstanz(fordissertation)
2012
ResearchGrantbytheInstitutdeRecherchesurleMaghreb
Contemporain,Tunis
2006–2009
Ph.D.ScholarshipbytheStudienstiftungdesdeutschenVolkes(German
NationalAcademicFoundation)
2007,2008
ResearchGrantsbytheGermanHistoricalInstituteinParis(DHIP)
2006
ResearchGrantbytheGermanAcademicExchangeService(DAAD)
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2004
ResearchGrantbytheFranco‐GermanYouthOffice(DFJW)
1999–2005
UndergraduateandGraduateScholarshipbytheStudienstifungdes
deutschenVolkes(GermanNationalAcademicFoundation)
ACADEMICSERVICE
ServiceonEditorialBoards:
– Coeditorof“TransatlantischeHistorischeStudien”(since2014,SteinerVerlag)
RefereeforResearchFundingOrganizations:
– SwissNationalScienceFoundation(SNF)
– HumanitiesintheEuropeanResearchArea(HERA)
RefereeforAcademicJournals:
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CahiersdelaMéditerranée;FrenchHistoricalStudies;InternationalJournalofMiddle
EastStudies;JahrbuchfürPolitikundGeschichte
Exhibitions:
 “L’AlgérieetlaFranceauxmiroirsdelaGrandeGuerre:expériencesplurielles,
histoirescroisées,”Muséed’histoiredelaFranceetdel’Algérie,Montpellier(member
ofexecutivecommittee)
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“DasGroßeSpiel:ArchäologieundPolitikzurZeitdesKolonialismus,”RuhrMuseum,
Essen(researchcollaborator)
ServiceonUniversityCommittees:
 MemberoftheFacultyCouncil(Sektionsrat)ofHumanities,UniversityofKonstanz,
2013–14
TEACHING
AcademicYear2012/13,UniversityofKonstanz
– Course“Algeria,1830–1962”
– Seminar“TheFreemasonsintheWorld(18th–20thCenturies)”
AcademicYear2011/12,UniversityofKonstanz
– Course“Decolonization(1940s–1960s)”
AcademicYear2010/11,UniversityofKonstanz
– Seminar“TheMiddleEast,c.1900–1950”(withDeniseKlein)
– Course“MaxWeber”
AcademicYear2009/10,UniversityofKonstanz
– Seminar“GenderRelationsinthe19thCentury”
– Course“KarlMarx‘TheCapital’”
– Seminar„TheAlgerianWarofIndependenceandNorthAfricanDecolonization“
AcademicYear2009,UniversityofBern
–
Seminarwithexcursion“MemoryLandscapesinTunisia”(withStefanRebenichand
ChristianWindler)
AcademicYear2008/09,UniversityofKonstanz
– Course“MemoryandRemembranceinHistory”
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MEMBERSHIP
InstitutdeRecherchesurleMaghrebContemporain(IRMC),Tunis;CentreforMediterranean
Studies,Ruhr‐UniversityBochum;VerbandderHistorikerinnenundHistorikerDeutschlands
CONFERENCEORGANIZATION(SELECTION)
2017
2016
2016
2015
2015
2013
“CosmopolitanisminContext:PracticesofWorldCitizenshipinanAgeof
Empire,18th–20thCenturies,”internationalconference,Palace
Herrenhausen,Hannover,Germany,July13–15,2017(withValeska
HuberandMartinRempe)
“TheHistorianandtheWorld–WorldsofHistory:Positions,Purposes,
andPoliticsinthe21stCentury,”internationalsymposium,German
HistoricalInstitute,WashingtonDC,April1–2,2016(withMischa
Honeck)
“TheRefugeeCrisis:HistoricalPerspectivesfromEuropeandNorth
America,1945–2000,”symposiumwithpaneldiscussion,German
HistoricalInstitute,WashingtonDC,March17,2016(withSimoneLässig,
incollaborationwiththeWorldBankandtheGermanEmbassyin
Washington)
“AtlanticBrotherhoods:FraternalisminTranscontinentalPerspective
(18th–early20thCentury),”internationalWorkshop,GermanHistorical
Institute,WashingtonDC,December4–5,2015(withJessicaHarland‐
Jacob)
“MedievalHistorySeminar,”internationalConference,GermanHistorical
Institute,WashingtonDC,October15–17,2015(withCorneliaLinde)
AuthorsWorkshopwithFrederickCooperundJaneBurbank,University
ofKonstanz,December12–13,2013
2012
“TheNationandits‘Repatriates’/Lanationetses‘rapatriés’”,
InternationalConference,GermanHistoricalInstituteinParis,March7–
9,2012(withManuelBorutta)
2011
“DecolonizationandMobilityintheMediterranean(1940s–1960s)”,
Panel,ThirdEuropeanCongressonWorldandGlobalHistory,London,
March17,2011(withValeskaHuber)
2011
“TeachingGlobalHistory”,Workshop,UniversityofKonstanz,February
25–26,2011(withRobertHeinze,DeniseKlein,andMichaelZeheter)
2008
“ImperialHierarchies:Space,Agency,Representation”,Workshop,
UniversityofKonstanz,October2008(withtheResearchGroup
“DynamicsofTransnationalAgency”)
LANGUAGES
English (fluent); French (fluent); Arabic (Modern Classical Arabic and Maghrebin Dialect;
advanced);Spanish(advanced);Latin
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PUBLICATIONS
Books:Monographs
(with Jürgen Osterhammel) Decolonization: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University
Press,inpress,2017.
Erobern und Erinnern. Symbolpolitik, öffentlicher Raum und französischer Kolonialismus in
Algerien,1830‐1950.Munich:Oldenbourg,2013.
(withJürgenOsterhammel)Dekolonisation:DasEndederImperien.1sted.,Munich:C.H.Beck,
2013;specialed.,Bonn:BundeszentralefürpolitischeBildung,2014.
(with Jürgen Osterhammel) Kolonialismus. Geschichte, Formen, Folgen. 7th ed., Munich:
C.H.Beck,2012.
Books:EditedVolumes
(with Manuel Borutta) Vertriebene and Pieds‐Noirs in Postwar Germany and France:
ComparativePerspectives.Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan,2016.
Books:EditedSeries
Transatlantische Historische Studien (Franz Steiner Verlag, with Simone Lässig, Axel Jansen,
andMischaHoneck),since2014
JournalArticles
“Creating National Heroes: Colonial Rule, Anticolonial Politics, and Conflicting Memories of
Emir‘Abdal‐QadirinAlgeria,1900s–1960s.”History&Memory28.2(2016):3–46.
“Algerien und Frankreich: Vom Kolonial‐ zum Erinnerungskrieg?” Aus Politik und
Zeitgeschichte66/33‐34(08/15/2016):41–46.
“In Search of Atlantic Sociability: Freemasons, Empires, and Atlantic History.” Bulletin of the
GermanHistoricalInstitute57(2015):75–99.
“Une autre «Union Sacrée»? Commémorer la Grande Guerre dans l’Algérie colonisée
(1918–1939).”Revued’histoiremoderneetcontemporaine61(2014):32–60.
“Fête et ordre colonial: centenaires et résistance anticolonialiste en Algérie pendant les
années1930.”VingtièmeSiècle.Revued’histoire121(2014):61–76.
“Celebratingthe“Nation”inaColonialContext:“BastilleDay”andtheContestedPublicSpace
inAlgeria,1880‐1939.”TheJournalofModernHistory85(2013):36–68.
“Lanationetses«rapatriés»:UnecomparaisonAllemagne‐France.”LaViedesidées,20March
2012(withManuelBorutta).
BookChapters
“Comparing Vertriebene and Pieds‐Noirs: Introduction.” In Vertriebene and Pieds‐Noirs in
PostwarGermanyandFrance:ComparativePerspectives,editedbyManuelBoruttaandJan
C.Jansen,1–31.Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan,2016(withManuelBorutta).
“Memory Lobbying and the Shaping of ‘Colonial Memories’ in France since the 1990s: the
Local, the National, and the International.” In Vertriebene and Pieds‐Noirs in Postwar
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Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Manuel Borutta and Jan C.
Jansen,252–271.Basingstoke:PalgraveMacmillan.
“Un monument pour le «Royaume arabe»? Politiques symboliques et enjeux de pouvoir à
Alger,danslesannées1860.”InCulturesd'empires?Echangesetaffrontementsculturelsen
situations coloniales, edited by Romain Bertrand, Hélène Blais, and Emmanuelle Sibeud,
271–292.Paris:Karthala.
“Kommentar: Die postkoloniale Konfrontation in Frankreich.” In Erinnerungskulturen post‐
imperialer Nationen, edited by Dietmar Rothermund, 145‐150. Baden‐Baden: Nomos,
2015.
“Unmixing the Mediterranean? Migration, demographische „Entmischung“ und
Globalgeschichte.”InGlobalgeschichten, editedbyBorisBarth,StefanieGänger,and Niels
P.Petersson,289–314.Frankfurta.M./NewYork:Campus.
“1880‐1914:une«statuomanie»àl'algérienne.”InHistoiredel'Algérieàlapériodecoloniale
(1830‐1962), edited by Abderrahmane Bouchène et al., 261–265. Paris/Algiers:
LaDécouverte/Barzakh,2012.
“Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France.”, In A European
Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance, edited by Bo Stråth and
MałgorzataPakier,275–293.Oxford/NewYork:BerghahnBooks,2010.
“InszenierungendesantikenErbesin„FranzösischAlgerien“.”InDasgroßeSpiel.Archäologie
undPolitikzurZeitdesKolonialismus(1860‐1940),editedbyCharlotteTrümpler,528–537.
Cologne:Dumont,2008.
“Karthago und die Pères Blancs.” In Das große Spiel. Archäologie und Politik zur Zeit des
Kolonialismus (1860‐1940), edited by Charlotte Trümpler, 538–550. Cologne: Dumont,
2008.
“Die Erfindung des Mittelmeerraums im kolonialen Kontext. Die Inszenierung eines
„lateinischenAfrika“beim„Centenairedel’Algériefrançaise“1930.”InDerSüden.Aufder
SuchenacheinerGeschichtsregion,editedbyBenjaminSchenkandMartinaWinkler,175–
205.Frankfurta.M./NewYork:Campus,2007.
BookReviews
inFrancia‐Recensio,geschichte‐transnational,H‐Soz‐Kult,JournalofContemporaryHistory,
NeuePolitischeLiteratur,andVingtièmeSiècle.Revued’histoire
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