Uwe Spiekermann is a Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute. His work focuses on the economic and social history of 19th and 20th Germany, on the history of consumption, namely the history of retailing and nutrition, and the history of science and knowledge. He is now working on a transnational comparison of the concept of quality in science, consumer goods industries, and politics.

Concepts of quality. Validation and commercialization during the 20th century in transnational perspective. more ...

since 2008	Deputy Director, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
2001 - 2008	Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic and Social History, Georg-August-University of Göttingen (currently on leave)
2005 - 2007	Fellow, German Research Foundation
2006	Visiting Professor of Economic and Social History, International (now: Jacobs) University Bremen (Spring 2006)
2003 - 2004	International Visiting Fellow, Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London
since 2002	Lecturer, University of Vienna, Department of Nutritional Sciences
1998 - 2001	Managing Director, Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung.  Foundation for Healthy Nutrition, Heidelberg
1998 - 1999	Lecturer, Educational College Heidelberg, Department of Home Economics
1997 - 1998	Postdoc-Fellow, then Research Collaborator, Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung. Foundation for Healthy Nutrition, Heidelberg
1996 - 1997	Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Exeter
1990 - 1994	Research Collaborator in the research project "Mass Consumption" of the German Research Foundation in Münster, Westfalia