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Dr. Julia Laura Rischbieter

Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
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Biographical Summary
Laura Rischbieter is Visiting Research Fellow in Economic and Social History at the GHI Washington from October 2012 to August 2013. Since 2009 she is Assistant Professor of Economic and Social History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Previously she worked as a lecturer in the Volkswagen Research Group "Globalization as a Historical Process" at the University of Cologne and later as a lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History at Göttingen University. Lauras research areas include the economic and social history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of globalization, consumption and science. Taking the example of coffee, one of the most important international traded commodities of the 19th and 20th centuries, her doctorate addressed the questions of how globalization processes work and how individuals can influence global economic processes. Current research focuses on the pre‐1945 history of loans and public depts, using the examples of multilateral finance organizations (World Bank Group, Bank for International Settlements, Paris Club, Inter‐American Development Bank, and the IMF).

Main Areas of Interest
  • History of globalization
  • History of consumption
  • Modern German history
  • International Organizations
  • History of public debts and monetary policy

GHI Research Project
  • The Janus head of capitalism. Debt as a norm and point of crisis after 1945

Professional Positions
since 2012
 Visiting Research Fellow Economic and Social History at the GHI
since 2009
 Assistant Professor for Social and Economic History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Historical Institute (currently on leave)
2006-2009 Lecturer at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Institute for Economic and Social History
2004-2006 Lecturer at the Volkswagen Research Group "Globalization as a Historical Process" at the University of Cologne
2000-2004 Student Research Assistant at the Free University Berlin Archives
2000 German Historical Museum, Internship Project for the Exhibition "Preußen 1701"

Grants & Fellowships
2012/13 Fellow for Economic and Social History, GHI Washington
2012
 Fellowship Boston University, Department of History: Visiting Researcher
2011 Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program: Advanced Research Award in the United States
2005 Volkswagen Foundation: Scholarship for six months of research in London (GB)
2004 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Graduate Student Fellowship Program "Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in German Studies" funded by the University of Minnesota and the DAAD
2003 Max-Planck-Foundation: Grant for the Publication of the Master's Theses

Publications

Monographs
  • Mikro-Ökonomie der Globalisierung. Kaffee, Kaufleute und Konsumenten im Kaiserreich 1870-1914, Köln, Wien u. Weimar 2011. [Microeconomics of Globalization. Coffee, Traders and Consumers in Imperial Germany 1870-1914].
  • Henriette Hertz (1846-1913). Mäzenin und Gründerin der Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rom (= Pallas Athene. Beiträge zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, hrsg. v. Rüdiger vom Bruch und Eckart Henning), Stuttgart (Franz Steiner Verlag) 2004. [Henriette Hertz (1846-1913): Patroness and Founder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome].

Articles
  • Wer nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt? Großhändler als Spekulanten im Kaiserreich, in: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (forthcoming) [no risk, no reward? Wholesalers as stock exchange speculators in the German Empire].
  • Henriette Hertz. Salonnière und Gründerin der Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rom, in: 100 Jahre Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom. Die Geschichte des Instituts 1913-2013, hg. v. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer und Elisabeth Kieven, (forthcoming) [Henriette Hertz. Salonnière and Founder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome].
  • "Er würde, wie man so sagt, kaltgestellt": Scheitern in kaufmännischen Kooperationen um 1900, in: Ingo Köhler u. Roman Rossfeld (Hg.): Pleitiers und Bankrotteure: Zur Geschichte ökonomischen Scheiterns vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt am Main 2012 ["He Would Be, as They Say, Sidelined": Failure in Commercial Cooperation around 1900], S. 153-181.
  • Coffee as a Colonial Product in the German Kaiserreich, in: Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States. Insecurity and Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World, ed. by Ulrike Lindner, Amsterdam u. New York 2010, S. 107-126.
  • Die Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1945 bis 1990, in: 1810-2010. 200 Jahre Universität Unter den Linden, Bd. 6: Disziplinengeschichte der Universität, hrsg. v. Rüdiger vom Bruch und Heinz-Elmar Tenorth, Berlin 2010, 255-276. [The Study of Economics at the Humboldt-University, Berlin between 1945 and 1990] (In cooperation with Jan-Otmar Hesse).
  • Globalisierungsprozesse vor Ort. Die Interdependenz von Produktion, Handel und Konsum am Beispiel „Kaffee" zur Zeit des Kaiserreichs, in: Comparativ Heft 3, 2007, S. 28-45. [Globalization Processes at the Local Level: The Interdependency between Production, Trade, and Consumption, using the Example of Coffee in Imperial Germany].
  • Kommentar: Die institutionelle Basis der Globalisierung. Der Hamburger Kaffeehandel, in: (CeGE-report 2/2007), S. 2. [The Institutional Basis of Globalization: Coffee Trade in Hamburg].
  • Die Liebe zur Kunst und Wissenschaft als Motiv für die Gründung eines Instituts, in: Dahlemer Archivgespräche 10, 2004, S. 45-64. [Love of Art and Science as Motivation for the Founding of an Institute].

Book Reviews in: H-Soz-u-Kult, Werkstatt Geschichte, Bankhistorisches Archiv, Vierteljahresschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (VSWG), and Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde

Teaching
  • Courses taught at Humboldt University of Berlin, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, and University of Cologne.

For more information, and a full CV please see Lauras page at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.