Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anne Sophie Overkamp

Associate Professor for History of Science and Technology

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since 10/2024: Associate Professor for History of Science and Technology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal

04/2024-09/2024
Fellow at the Center of Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection, University of Erfurt

04/2022 - 03/2023
Assistant professor at the chair of Modern Western History at the University of Freiburg (deputy)

06/2019-03/2024
Research associate with the research project “Landhäuser im Wandel – Country Houses in Times of Change, 18th to 20th centuries“ at the University of Tübingen.

2019
PhD in History

12/2012 – 05/2019
Research associate at the chair of Early Modern History at the University of Bayreuth (parental leave 2012, 2014/15)

2010 – 2012
PhD scholarship, funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

2008 – 2010
Employee with TU9 – German Universities of Technology e.V.

2007
MA in Cultural Studies and History

2001 – 2007
Student of Cultural Studies and History at the universities of Frankfurt/Oder, Warsaw, and Chapel Hill, NC

 

Research interests

• History of botany, 18th to 20th centuries
• Cultures and practices of knowledge
• Material culture and history of consumption
• Economic history as cultural history
• German history in a global context

 

Academic service

• Member of the editorial sub-group 19th century with the online review-journal Hsozkult, www.hsozkult.de
• Member of the steering committee of the AHRC-funded project "Hidden lives: domestic servants in the European country house, 1700-1850" https://countryhouseservants.mmu.ac.uk/
• PI in the research training group “Transformations of Science and Technology since 1800”, Bergische Universität Wuppertal https://grk2696.de/