Professional Activities | Research
About Me | Publications | WiP | Talks & Conferences
Research Foci | Forschungsfokus: Sugar | Pearls | Human Remains | Amalie Dietrich

Academic Positions, Education & Special Skills
furthermore:
Layout & Design | Historico-Sociological Investigator | Lead Managing Editor ASJ|ZfA | CAS Team
please also refer to my bilingual Qualification Profile | Qualifikationsprofil
Non-Academic Positions
IT Instructor
for ›Digital Self-Defense‹ (data security & data economy), Social Media, Windows 11 as well as Basic Courses for PC beginners and novices (see IT Courses)
i.a. for the KVHS Uelzen [Adult Education Centre] as well as individual coaching for advanced users and various academic organizations
Copy Editor & Proof-Reader | Web Designerin
i.a. for a Berlin media company,
academic publications, private clients (both non-fiction and fiction) as well as education-focused associations
Consultant for Corporate Development
editorial work, media design, first-level IT supportat a specialist German publishing house
Academic Positions
Researcher
Visiting Fellow
Independent Researcher
Visiting Lecturer
Advisory Positions
Fellow at the Trierer Kolleg für Mittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit (TriKo), Universität Trier
Research Fellow at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
with my DFG-funded project:
Exception or Exemption? The Broome Pearling Industry and the White Australia Policy
Visiting Fellow in the research group
The Transcultural Heritage of Northwest Australia: Dynamics and Resistances, Forschungsbereich Transcultural Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
drafting the project Exception or Exemption
since
Independent Researcher
working on the history of racisms, esp. the history of colonialism, racism, and whiteness in Australia
– see Sugar, Pearls, Human Remains, and Amalie Dietrich
Visiting Lecturer at the Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg
Courses include:
Sozialphotographie als Gesellschaftsanalyse
(Social Documentary Photography as Social Analysis)
Stereotyping Down Under
Class, Gender, Nation & Race in Colonial
and Postcolonial Australia
(multiple times)
The Woman and the Ape
Intersectionality of Gender and Race
in the Discourse of Simianization
Advisory & Technical Positions
Lead Managing Editor
of the ASJ | ZfA (Australian Studies Journal), since 2021
Member of the Academic Advisory Board
of the Specialised Information Service Anglo-American
Culture (FID AAC), since 2021
Member of the Executive Board (Public Relations)
of the GASt (Gesellschaft für Australienstudien |
German Association for Australian Studies), since 2021
Social Media Manager
at the CAS (Centre for Australian Studies), since 2020
Digital Manager
for the GASt (Association for Australian Studies), since 2019
Technical Editor (Design & Typesetting)
for the ZfA | ASJ (Australian Studies Journal), since 2017
Reviewer
for the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, ZfA | ASJ,
Manchester University Press, since 2012
Digital Manager &
Member of the Executive Board (Finance)
for the GdFF (Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des
Fachbereichs Sozialökonomie (vormals HWP), 2014-2019
Academic Education
Dr. rer. pol.
M. A. Cultural & Social History
B. A. Sociology
Doctor rerum politicarum
Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Thesis: Consuming Whiteness. Australian Racism and the White Sugar Campaign
Grade: summa cum laude
awarded the Dissertation Prize 2016 by the Association for Australian Studies
Master of Arts in Cultural and Social History
University of Essex, Colchester
as valedictorian
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
(HWP, Hamburg &) Macquarie University, Sydney
awarded the RW Connell Prize for Sociology
Special Skills
Translations
Typography
Image Editing
Professional Presentations
Webdesign
Translations
German → English
English → German
French → German
Typographie
From text creation and manuscripts
to proof-reading and copy-editing
to pre-press and publication
InDesign and Scribus
Image Editing & Restauration
Scanning
Processing for print
Line Drawing, Greyscale, and Colour
Photoshop & Illustrator
DarkTable & InkScape
Professional Presentation
AV-supported talks
Animated presentations
Picture shows
m.objects
Webdesign
Programming for academic purposes