ROBERT FISCHER DORFSTRASSE 18 • 09633 HALSBRÜCKE • DEUTSCHLAND TEL . +49 160 / 7801674 • ROBERTFISCHER01 @ GMAIL.COM
ACADEMIC PROFILE ___________________________________________________________________________ since 09/2016
visiting researcher in the fellowship program “History of Knowledge” at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
02/2012 - 07/2016
dissertation project at the doctoral platform “World Regions and Interactions – Area Studies Transregionally“ at the University of Erfurt with the title: “Sex im Grenzbereich – Sexualität, Devianz und
Regulierung in
den
US-amerikanisch-mexikanischen
Grenzstädten Ciudad Juárez/El Paso, 1880-1950 “ (Borderline Sex – Sexuality, Deviance and Regulation in US-Mexico border cities Ciudad Juárez/El Paso, 1880-1950) 07 - 08/2013
visiting scholar at the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, University of Texas, El Paso
04 - 06/2013
doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
02 - 03/2013
estudiante visitante at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez
since 04/2011
member of the research group „Erfurter RaumZeit Forschung“ at the University of Erfurt since 2015 board member for junior researchers
10/2008 - 03/2011
masters degree program of History at the University of Erfurt and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico-City title of the MA-thesis: “Das Körperbild der Eugenik in Mexiko, 1930-1950“ (The Body Image of Eugenics in Mexico, 1930-1950)
10/2005 - 08/2008
bachelor degree program of English Language and Literature (mayor), History (minor with a focus on Latin American and 1
Southwest European History) and Governance and Public Policy (minor with a focus on social sciences and political sciences) at the University of Erfurt
GRANTS ___________________________________________________________________________ since 09/2016
research fellowship at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
04 - 06/2013
doctoral fellowship at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
09/2012
fellowship of the Bosch Archival Seminar, 2012
02/2012 - 04/2016
scholarship
“Christoph-Martin-Wieland“
at
the
doctoral
platform “World Regions and Interactions – Area Studies Transregionally“, University of Erfurt 07/2009 - 01/2010
study abroad scholarship of the University of Erfurt for the studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico-City
PUBLICATIONS ___________________________________________________________________________ Eugenik in Mexiko. Körperbild anhand der Sociedad Mexicana de Eugenesia, 1930-1950. Saarbrücken: AV Akademikerverlag, 2016. Introduction: Reflecting on Narrative Othering through Imperial TimeSpaces. In: Holt Meyer, Susanne Rau, Katharina Waldner (eds.): SpaceTime of the Imperial. Berlin: de Gruyter, (expected 2016), submitted. Pinturas de Castas – Verbildlichung von race und sex im kolonialen Mexiko. In: Jürgen Martschukat und Olaf Stieglitz (eds.): race&sex: Eine Geschichte der Neuzeit. 49 Schlüsseltexte aus vier Jahrhunderten neu gelesen. Berlin: Neofelis, 2016. Mobility and Morality at the Border – A Lefebvrian Spatio-Temporal Analysis in Early Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juárez and El Paso. Historical Social Research 38:3 (2013). Dictionary entry: “Begegnung”. In: Günzel, Stefan (ed.): “Lexikon der Raumphilosophie”. Darmstadt: WBS, 2012. 2
Review: Altenburg, Jan Philipp: Machtraum Großstadt. Zur Aneignung und Kontrolle des Stadtraums in Frankfurt am Main und Philadelphia in den 1920er Jahren. Wien/Köln: Böhlau, 2013. In: Jahrbuch für Hessische Landesgeschichte 65 (2015), S. 178-180. Review (with Sebastian Dorsch): Chris Lorenz / Berber Bevernage (Hrsg.): Breaking up Time. Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future. Göttingen: Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. In: Comparativ 24:3 (2014). Review: Capello, Ernesto: “City at the Center of the World – Space, History and Modernity in Quito”. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. In: H-Soz-u-Kult (04.07.2012), access via: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2012-3-007. Review: Klopfer, Nadine: “Die Ordnung der Stadt – Raum und Gesellschaft in Montreal (1880-1930)“. Köln: Böhlau, 2010. In: H-Soz-u-Kult (14.11.2011), access via: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-4-110. Conference Proceedings: “Historische Zeitforschung und globale Geschichtsschreibung – Krisen, Ordnungen, (Un)Gleichzeitigkeiten“. In: H-Soz-Kult, (05.03.2013), access via: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-4681. Conference Proceedings: “Breaking up Time. Settling the Borders between the Present, the Past and the Future“. In: AHF-Information, 97 (09.05.2011), access via: http://www.ahf-muenchen.de/ Tagungsberichte/Berichte/pdf/2011/097-11.pdf. Internet: Website: „Traces of Mind Control from Cold War America“. Traces: “Selling” und “Experimenting”. http://brynmawrcollections.org/traces/
CO-ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS AND PANELS ________________________________________________________________ Workshop (with Jenny Bauer) „Raum anders Denken. Die Begriffe der Raumtrias, des Residualen und der Heterotopie bei Henri Lefebvre“, TU Darmstadt, 08/05/2015. Panel (with Florian Heintze) „Reflecting on Narrative Othering through Imperial TimeSpaces“, Konferenz „Raumzeitlichkeit des Imperialen“, Universität Erfurt, 08-11/10/2014.
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Panel (with Robert Kramm) „Global Perspectives on Contested Sexualities – Entangled History of Intimacy and Pleasure in the 20th Century“, European Congress on World and Global History, Paris, 04-07/09/2014. Workshop (with Jenny Bauer) "Lefebvre lesen. Plurale Zugänge zu einem vernachlässigten Raumdenker des 20. Jahrhunderts", University of Erfurt, 18/07/2014. Workshop (with David Möller) „Lust am „Anderen“ - Globalgeschichte zu Intimität und Regulierung von Sexualität im 20. Jahrhundert“, University of Erfurt, 11-12/04/2014. Workshop (with Kathrin Fehringer and Sebastian Dorsch) "Theoretische Konzepte raumzeitlicher Ordnungspraktiken: de Certeau – Eliade – Koselleck", University of Erfurt, 06-07/07/2012. Workshop (with Silvan Niedermeier) „Dynamiken der Interaktion: Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf Differenz und Zeitlichkeit“, Universität Erfurt, 29-30/06/2012.
LECUTRES UND TALKS ___________________________________________________________________________ summer semester 2015 “Imperiale Konflikte in lokalen Kontexten: Globalgeschichte(n) der USA im 20. Jahrhundert“, BA-course (with David Möller), University of Erfurt. winter semester 2013/ 2014 “An Evolving Border: Perspektiven auf die US-mexikanische Grenze im 20./21. Jahrhundert“. BA-course, University of Erfurt. 2015: Sexualität
im
Grenzbereich.
Die
Bedrohung
der
Familie
und
die
Unterhaltungsindustrie in den US-amerikanisch-mexikanischen Zwillingsstädten Ciudad Juárez/El Paso, ca. 1908-1944; colloquium “Geschichte nach 1800“, Bern, 28/10/2015. Sexuelle Gewalt an der Grenze. Schuld/ Unschuld, Reputation und Modernität im US-mexikanischen Grenzraum El Paso/Ciudad Juárez in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Conference of Latin American History Doctoral Candidates in Germany, Münster, 05-06/02/2015. Sexualität im Grenzbereich. Lokale Perspektiven auf globale Phänomene, Ciudad Juárez/ El Paso in der 1. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Workshop “Area Histories – Territorialität – Prostitution”, colloquium “Globalgeschichte – Wissensgeschichte – Kartographiegeschichte“, Erfurt, 22-23/01/2015. 4
2014: introduction to the panel: Reflecting on Narrative Othering through Imperial TimeSpaces; Conference “Raumzeitlichkeit des Imperialen“, Erfurt, 08-11/10/2014. Moralizing the Border: Reactions to the Vice Industry in the Border Cities Ciudad Juárez and El Paso in early 20th Century. Panel „Global Perspectives on Contested Sexualities – Entangled History of Intimacy and Pleasure in the 20th Century“, European Congress on World and Global History, Paris, 04-07/09/2014. Lefebvre und seine Gedanken zu Sexualität. Workshop “Lefebvre lesen. Plurale Zugänge zu einem vernachlässigten Raumdenker des 20. Jahrhunderts“, Erfurt, 18/07/2014. Heterotopia der Moral – Prostitution und white slavery in der Grenzstadt El Paso/ Ciudad Juárez in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Workshop “Lust am Anderen – Globalgeschichte zu Intimität und Regulierung von Sexualität im 20. Jahrhundert“, Erfurt, 11-12/04/2014. Transregionale Area Histories and das Globale im Lokalen am Beispiel der Zwillingsstädte Ciudad Juárez/ El Paso in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Finalizing workshop “Area Histories Transregional“, platform “World Regions and Interactions – Area Studies Transregionally”, Erfurt, 28/02-01/03/2014. 2013: Marco teorético de una historia de sexualidad. Seminar „Teoría Social y Acción Pública”, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez, 20/02/2013. Putting the Traces Concept into Practice – Benefits and Challenges [with Nina Mackert and Jan Taubitz]. Workshop “Traces of Mind Control from Cold War America – Exploring the Challenges of International Digital Humanities Initiatives,” Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, USA, 21-22/03/2013. Twin Cities and Sin Cities? A Translocal History of Sexuality in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso in the Early 20th century”. Doctoral seminar, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., 23/05/2013. 2012: "Vice" from a Translocal Perspective – Ciudad Juárez and El Paso in the Era of Prohibition. 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, 16-20/07/2012. "Vice" from a Translocal Perspective - Ciudad Juárez and El Paso in the Era of Prohibition.
The
Example
of
Prostitution.
Doctoral
colloquium,
Münster,
04-05/07/2012. The Americanization of the Mexican Nomads – Control and Regulation of Space and Time (ca. 1890-1930). Conference “Nomadismo y formas de vida con movilidad en las Américas“, Vienna, 15-17/02/2012. 5
2011: Raum.Zeit.Körper - Bewegung und Begegnung zwischen Mexiko-Stadt und Los Angeles, ca. 1890-1930. Workshop “Räumliche und zeitliche Praktiken in historischer Perspektive“, Erfurt, 08-09/07/2011. Database Presentation [with Nadya Arzouni, Nina Mackert, Jan Taubitz]. Workshop “Traces of Mind Control in American Cold War Culture“, Erfurt, 15-16/06/2011. 2010 Vorstellung des studentisch organisierten Projekts SIR!US (Systemisches Institut für Reflexion, Innovation und Supervision) [with Claudia Fischer]. „Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Systemische Pädagogik“, Hochstedt.
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING ___________________________________________________________________________ 01/2016 - 04/2016
research
assistant
for
the
research
group
Erfurter
RaumZeit-Forschung work on public relations
10/2015 - 12/2015
research assistant at the chair of Cultures of Spaces in the Modern Era (Prof. Susanne Rau) work on an edition as scientific reader
since 03/2012
participation in advanced training at HIT (Akademische Personalentwicklung an Hochschulen in Thüringen) Communication at the University (11/2015) Basics of Didactics at the University (03, 05/2015) Learning by Doing (2014) Academic Writing Course (2014) Self-, Time-, and Energy Management (2014) Career Workshop: Doctor – Quo vadis? (2014) Speech and Vocal Training for University Lecturers (2012)
04/2011 - 08/2011
research assistant at the DFG-research project: Traces of Mind Control from Cold War Culture (Prof. Jürgen Martschukat, Prof. Sharon Ullman, Dr. Olaf Stieglitz) research and work as an author on two webpage-based articles
11/2010 - 12/2012
research assistant at the DFG-research project: Cultural Spaces of Time in an Atlantic Metropolis: São Paulo 1867-1930 (Dr. Sebastian Dorsch) work on public relations, an edition as scientific reader, research inquiries and workshop organization
10/2010 - 03/2011
student assistant at the chair of North American History (Dr. Olaf Stieglitz) working on research inquiries 6
02/2010 - 06/2010
project management regarding the campaign day “Bildung (in) der Postmoderne” at the University of Erfurt and participation in advanced training with SIR!US Communication and Team Management (02/2010) Business Plans and Legal Settings (05/2010) Conflict Management (06/2010)
11/2009
translation work for a talk at the conference “Higher Education for Sustainable Developement”, Malaysia
09/2009 - 12/2009
support of the district “El Molino“ in self-governance within the project HIC-AL (Coalición Internacional para el Hábitat – Oficina Regional para América Latina) in Mexico-City
09/2009 - 11/2009
planning of an exhibition concept regarding the history of the “Bosque Chapultepec“ within the project of CICEANA (Centro de Información y Comunicación Ambiental de Norte América, A.C.) in Mexico-City
03/2009 - 12/2012
member of the university student group for inclusive learning SIR!US responsible for project management, finance and public relations
03/2009 - 08/2009
tutor for children with a migrant background organized by the Protestant Congregation of Erfurt, Office for Foreign Residents
02/2008 - 06/2008
member of the appointment committee for the chair “Sprache und Struktur“ at the University of Erfurt
10/2007 - 03/2008
student assistant at the chair of English Language (Prof. Karlfried Knapp), tutoring job
06/2006
translation work for the program of the art festival transeuropa, Hildesheim
02/2006 - 09/2008
member of the student council for the program of English Language and Literature responsible for finances and public relations
R. Fischer
Washington, DC, September 2016
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