MARIE ANNA MUSCHALEK, PH.D.
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MARIE ANNA MUSCHALEK, PH.D.
Department of History and Sociology |Chair of the History of Knowledge | University of Konstanz
marie-anna.muschalek@uni-konstanz.de
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MMuschalek
Public History Project: www.kolonialismusimkasten.de
EDUCATION
2014 Ph.D. in History, Cornell University
2008 M.A. in Early Modern and Modern European History, Cornell University
2002 M.A. in Social and Political Sciences, Sciences Po, Paris
2000 B.A. in History, German Literature and Political Science, University of Hamburg
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Since 4/2021 Research Associate and Lecturer at the Chair of History of Knowledge, Prof. Anne
Kwaschik, University of Konstanz
2020-2021 Research Associate and Lecturer (substitute) at the Chair of Modern and
Contemporary History of Western Europe, Prof. Dr. Leonhard, Department of History,
University of Freiburg
2019-2020 Project Coordinator, University College Freiburg
2018-2019 Teaching Fellow, University College Freiburg
2018 Lecturer, Department of History, University of Freiburg
2014-2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Freiburg, “The Civil
Administration in Nazi Occupied Alsace: A Cultural and Everyday History of
Bureaucracy” (www.ns-ministerien-bw.de)
2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History, Heidelberg University
2004-2005 Research Assistant, Department of Political and Social Science, University of Konstanz,
“Holocaust and ‘Polycracy’ in Western Europe, 1940-1944”
2003-2004 Research Associate, Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg
2000 Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Hamburg
1999 Assistant and Guide in the exhibition “Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht
1941-1944,” Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern European History – Colonialism and Imperialism (focus Southern Africa) – Nazism
Histories of Violence – Military and Police History – Cultures of Bureaucracy – Global Knowledge
Emotions – Science – Aesthetics
Historical Anthropology – Postcolonial Studies – Alltagsgeschichte
1RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Conference Organization
2021 Panel “Contested Mean(ing)s? Provenance Research, its Subfields and the Study of History,”
53rd German Annual History Conference, Munich, October 5-8.
Workshop “Killing to Keep: Preservation Practices, Science, and Beauty. A workshop
on Mounted Zoological Specimens,” University of Konstanz, June 25 & 28.
2020 Workshop “Documents of Violence: Source Analysis in Historical Violence Studies,”
Graduate School Basel, October 30 - November 1.
2019 International conference “Intersectional History: Relevance, Potentials, Limits,”
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, July, 10-12.
2016 Workshop “Violence and Capitalism,” Rostock University, December 1-3.
2015 International symposium “Academic Feminism: The Production and Transfer of
Gender Knowledge,” University of Freiburg, February 5-6.
2014 Workshop “Epistemic Violence,” Humboldt University, Berlin, November 14-16.
2012 International conference “German Regimes: Cultures of Administration in Colonial and
Postcolonial Contexts,” Gut Siggen (Germany), November 2-4.
Project organization
2019-2020 Coordinator at the University College Freiburg for the teaching and learning projects
SELF (Service Learning Freiburg) and ICE (Integrated Curriculum Development
Entrepreneurship), in cooperation with the Center for Key Qualifications at the
University of Freiburg, funded by MWK Baden-Württemberg Funds (FESt-BW).
2014-2017 Project manager and PI for “The Civil Administration in Alsace, 1940-1944/45.”
THIRD PARTY FUNDING ACQUISITION AND AWARDS
2020 Conference funding (Co-I) for “Documents of Violence: Source Analysis in Historical
Violence Studies,” (Oct. 30-Nov. 1), Vice Rectorate for Research & Promotion of Young
Researchers, University of Basel, Basel Graduate School of History [volume: 8,955
CHF]
2019 Conference funding (Co-I) for “Intersectional History” (07/10-12), Excellence Cluster
LabEx EHNE (Sorbonne University, Paris), AKHFG Research Network, Frankreich-
Zentrum (University of Freiburg) [volume: 5.500 €]
2018 Start-up grant (Co-I), for “Knowledge Empire: German Wissenschaft around the
World,” Research Innovation Fond, University of Freiburg [volume: 25.000 €]
2014-2017 Postdoc research position within the overall project “History of the State Ministries of
Baden and Württemberg during the Nazi Era” (Co-I), Baden-Württemberg Foundation
[volume: 1.45M €; vol. of own subproject: 206.833 €]
2016 Conference funding (PI) for “Violence and Capitalism” (12/1-3), Fritz Thyssen
Foundation [volume: 7.000 €]
2012 Conference funding (PI) for “German Regimes” (11/2-4), Alfred Toepfer Foundation
[volume: board and lodging for 20 participants]
2011 Travel grant (PI), Graduate School, Cornell University [volume: $ 2.000]
22008-2009 Research grant (PI), Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) [volume:
14.222 €]
Additional funding Luigi Einaudi Fellowship (PI), Institute for European Studies, Cornell
University [volume: $ 5.300]
2007-2008 Peace Studies Graduate Fellowship (PI), Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies,
Cornell University [volume: $ 30.434]
2007 Michel Sicca Travel Grant (PI) for preliminary archival research (08/01-31), Institute
for European Studies, Cornell University [volume: $ 3.200]
PUBLIC OUTREACH/ PUBLIC HISTORY PROJECTS
2011-2013 Conceptualization and production of a free audio guide and website criticizing the
representation of Germany’s colonial past in the permanent exhibition of the German
National History Museum, Berlin (www.kolonialismusimkasten.de)
2009-2012 Founding member of the public history initiative “Kolonialismus im Kasten?” Guided
tours on the German colonial past through the German National History Museum in
Berlin
2003-2005 Guide and Counselor for French and Belgian camp survivors and their families,
Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg
LANGUAGES
German and French: native speaker
English: fluent
Spanish: basic
Russian: basic
MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2020-21 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, BNU Strasbourg, Exhibition “Face au
Nazisme,” Fall 2022.
American Historical Association
German Studies Association
German History Society
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
Research Network Geschichte – Gesellschaft – Gewalt
Research Network Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG)
TEACHING (SELECTION)
2021 Knowledge and Power. German Colonialism in the Long Nineteenth Century (introductory
undergraduate course), Department of History, University of Konstanz
3Drawing the Social. Data Visualizations in the 19th & 20th Centuries [digital humanities
course], Department of History, University of Konstanz
2020 Soldiers, Policemen, Prison Guards. Actors of Colonial Violence (introductory undergraduate
course), Department of History, University of Freiburg
Explaining the World and its People in Visual Representations [digital humanities course]
(Tutorial), Department of History, University of Freiburg
The “Alte Universität”: Past- Present- Future (Public History project seminar), University
College Freiburg
2019 Written Expression (introductory undergraduate course), University College Freiburg
2018 German War Expertise in the World: A Global History of Military Knowledge in the late 18th
and early 19th Centuries (introductory undergraduate course), Department of History,
University of Freiburg
2016 Between Germany and France: Administration and Society in Alsace, 1900- 1950 (upper-level
graduate course), Department of History, University of Freiburg
2015 Cultures of Everyday Violence: A Socio-Cultural and Historical Anthropology (upper-level
undergraduate course in area studies), University College Freiburg
TALKS
Invited Talks (Selection)
2021 Affective State Violence and the Police in German Southwest Africa. Geschichte der Gefühle
e-Kolloquium, MPI Berlin, Jun. 1.
Violence as Usual. Policing and the Colonial State in German South West Africa. Seminar
Series PREWARAS, University of Padua, May. 7.
2020 Kolonialer Alltag nach dem Genozid. Gewalt, Polizei und Staat in Deutsch Südwestafrika,
1907-1915. Institut für Diaspora- und Genozidforschung, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Jul. 13.
2019 L’administration civile national-socialiste en Alsace annexée. Le quotidien bureaucratique
d’un régime transfrontalier. « Local, national, transnational : pour une nouvelle approche de
l’histoire de l’Allemagne sous le régime national-socialiste », Université de Strasbourg, Apr.
23.
Sexuelle Gewalt und männliche Ehre in der Polizei von Deutsch-Südwestafrika: Der Fall Sophie
Meritz (1910). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jan. 30.
2018 The Case of Colonialism: German Master Narratives and Alternatives at the German Historical
Museum in Berlin. “Decolonizing the Museum. Transnational Comparisons,” Georgetown und
Howard University, Washington DC, Nov. 9-10.
2017 Built on War: Policing Towns and Military Camps in German Southwest Africa, 1905-1915.
European Conference on African Studies, Basel, Jul. 1.
Frauen und Männer in den NS-Ministerialbürokratien Badens und Württembergs.
Jahrestreffen der historischen Kommission BadenWürttemberg, Reutlingen, Jun. 29-30.
Representing the History of Nazi Bureaucracy: The Civil Administration in Alsace, 1940-
1944/45. Center for Historical Culture, Rotterdam, Apr. 6.
4Als Baden das Elsass regierte: Neuere Forschungen zur nationalsozialistischen
Verwaltungskultur, 1940-1944/45. Institut Français, Mainz, Feb. 22.
2016 Abkommandierung ins Elsass: Polizeigewalt in den besetzten Gebieten, 1940- 1944. Polizei
Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Apr. 28.
Maintenir l’ordre sexuel : honneur et masculinité dans la police coloniale du sud- ouest
africain allemand. « Maintenir l’ordre en Afrique (XIXe -XXIe siècle) : Acteurs, savoirs,
pratiques », Marc Bloch Institut, Berlin, Apr. 22-24.
Zwischen Karlsruhe und Straßburg: Als Badens Beamte die Zivilverwaltung im
Elsass übernahmen, 1940-1944/45. „Deutsch-französische Besatzungsbeziehungen im 20.
Jahrhundert,” Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Mar. 17.
2015 Masculinity, Honor, and Sexual Violence in Post-Genocide German Southwest Africa.
“Masculinities in Times of (Post)War: The German Case, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris,
Nov. 27-28.
2014 Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State. Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
Basel, Oct. 28.
Conference Papers (Selection)
2021 Zwischen öffentlicher und privater Gewalt. Polizeiliche Alltagspraxis und Staatlichkeit in
Deutsch Südwestafrika. 53rd German Annual History Conference, Munich, Oct. 5.-8.
2020 Comradery, Intimacy, and Everyday Police Violence. The Rape of Sophie Ion Meritz in German
Southwest Africa (1910). Graduate School of History Workshop, Basel, Oct. 27.
2015 ‘Dieses Mal sind keine Preussen gekommen…’ Deutsche Beamtinnen und Beamte im
besetzten Elsass, 1940-1944/45. „Bausteine einer Verwaltungsgeschichte des
Nationalsozialismus im Reich und in den Ländern,“ Heidelberg, Apr. 16.
Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State. “Practices of Order: Colonial
and Imperial Projects,” University of Copenhagen, Jan. 28-30.
2014 Kolonialismus im Kasten: Nationalgeschichte im Deutschen Historischen Museum in Berlin
(together with Susann Lewerenz). „Geschichte in der Vitrine. Sammlung und Ausstellung von
Nationalgeschichten im Vergleich,“ Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, May 8-9.
2011 A Racial Division of Violent Labor: Everyday Practices of Policing in German Southwest-Africa.
European Conference on African Studies, Uppsala, Jun. 15-17.
Technologies and Techniques of Colonial Police Violence: Materiality, Expertise, Ideology.
“Violence in the 20th Century. Spaces, Cultures, Actors,” Gut Siggen (Oldenburg in Holstein),
May 13-14.
2010 Everyday State Violence: The Police Force of German Southwest-Africa and its Importance for
the Colonial Economy. Annual German Historical Society Conference, University of
Manchester, Sept. 16-17.
A ‘Thin Blue Line’? Policing German Southwest Africa, 1905-1918. “Helpless Imperialists:
Imperial Failure, Radicalization, and Violence between High Imperialism and Decolonization,”
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Jan.14-16.
Freiburg, October, 2021
5PUBLICATIONS
Monographies
Violence as Usual. Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press 2019.
Paperback published in 2020 by University of Namibia Press. [Reviews: H-Soz-Kult, 26.05.2020;
German Studies Review 43.3 (Oct. 2020); International Review of Social History 65.3 (Dec. 2020); H-
Diplo, H-Net Reviews (Feb. 2021); The American Historical Review 126.1 (March 2021); Central
European History 54.2 (June 2021); Storica 77 (2020).]
Edited Volumes
with Frank Engehausen und Wolfgang Zimmermann (eds.), Deutsch-französische
Besatzungsbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2018.
Essays and Articles
with Christa-Irene Klein, Frauen in der Ministerialbürokratie, in Christiane Kuller, Joachim
Scholtyseck, and Edgar Wolfrum (eds.), Geschichte der Landesministerien in Baden und
Württemberg in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, vol. 2. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2022.
Die deutsche Zivilverwaltung im Elsass, 1940-1944/45, in Frank Engehausen, Sylvia Paletschek, and
Wolfram Pyta (eds.), Geschichte der Landesministerien in Baden und Württemberg in der Zeit
des Nationalsozialismus, vol. 1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2019, 435-538.
Honneur masculin et violence policière ordinaire : Une affaire de viol dans le Sud-Ouest africain
allemand (1910), trad. par Romain Tiquet, et Charlotte Bomy, Vingtième Siècle 140 (2018/4):
83-95.
with Frank Engehausen and Wolfgang Zimmermann, Umstrittenes Grenzland: Deutsch- französische
Besatzungsbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert, in Frank Engehausen, Marie Muschalek, and
Wolfgang Zimmermann (eds.), Deutsch- französische Besatzungsbeziehungen im 20.
Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2018, 7-10.
Zwischen Karlsruhe und Straßburg: Als Badens Beamte die Zivilverwaltung im Elsass übernahmen,
1940-1944/45, in Frank Engehausen, Marie Muschalek, and Wolfgang Zimmermann (eds.),
Deutsch-französische Besatzungsbeziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer
2018, 71-89.
Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa, in Søren
Rud, Søren Ivarsson (eds.), Reanalyzing the Colonial State: Theoretical and Empirical
Perspectives, [Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 33]. Bingley: Emerald 2017, 129-150.
„Entschlossen, für den Führer einzutreten?“ Elsässische Bedienstete im Dienst des
nationalsozialistischen Staates, in Momente. Beiträge zur Landeskunde von Baden-
Württemberg (2017/4): 8-9.
Von der Ohrfeige bis zum Völkermord: Koloniale Gewalt, in Deutsches Historisches Museum (Ed.),
Deutscher Kolonialismus. Fragmente seiner Geschichte und Gegenwart. Darmstadt: Theiss
2016, 42-49. [Engl. translation: Ranging from Slaps to Genocide, in Deutsches Historisches
Museum (Ed.), German Colonialism. Fragments Past and Present. Darmstadt: Theiss 2016, 42-
49.]
6with Manuela Bauche, Dörte Lerp, Susann Lewerenz, and Kristin Weber, Das Beispiel des Deutschen
Historischen Museums: Erinnern und Vergessen, in Denise Bergold-Caldwell et al. (eds.),
Spiegelblicke: Perspektiven schwarzer Bewegung in Deutschland. Berlin: Orlanda 2015, 157-
159.
Honourable Soldier-Bureaucrats: Formations of Violent Identities in the Colonial Police Force of
German Southwest-Africa, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 41, 4 (2013): 584-
599.
with Aurélie Audeval, Martin Jungius, and Jörg Raab, „Arisierungsnetzwerke“:
Akteurskonstellationen, Arbeitsteilung und Interessenkonflikte bei der „Arisierung“ größerer
Unternehmen in Frankreich 1940-1944, in FRANCIA. Forschungen zur Westeuropäischen
Geschichte 32, 3 (2005): 101-138.
Interviews
« Namibie-Allemagne : comment ‘réparer’, plus d'un siècle après un génocide ? » Les Enjeux
internationaux, Radio France Culture, 8.10.2021.
« ‘Colonialisme en boite’ : Un guide audio alternatif » Radio Deutsche Welle, 28.03.2013.
Reviews
Review of [Klaus Bachmann, Genocidal Empires: German Colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich,
New York: Peter Lang 2018], in The American Historical Review 125, 4 (2020): 1532-33.
Review of [François Igersheim, L’Alsace politique 1870-1914, Strasbourg: Presses universitaires
2016], in Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 165 (2017): 444-446.
Review of [Jürgen Finger, Eigensinn im Einheitsstaat. NS-Schulpolitik in Württemberg, Baden und im
Elsass 1933-1945, in Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016], in sehepunkte 16, 12 (2016).
Review of [Bart Luttikhus and A. Dirk Moses (eds.), Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence.
The Dutch Empire in Indonesia, Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge 2014] in Bijdragen tot de
Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 172, 1 (2016), 27-28.
Review of [Britta Schilling, Postcolonial Germany. Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014], in German
Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. 37 (2015), 1, 115-18.
Review of [Eva Bischoff, Kannibale-Werden. Eine postkoloniale Geschichte deutscher Männlichkeit
um 1900, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2011], in Historische Anthropologie 20, 2 (2012), 265-67.
Review of [Larissa Förster, Postkoloniale Erinnerungslandschaften. Wie Deutsche und Herero in
Namibia des Kriegs von 1904 gedenken, Frankfurt a.M./ New York: Campus 2010], in
WerkstattGeschichte 59 (2012), 128-131.
Blog Entries and Online Articles (Selection)
Ein Tag „nicht wie die anderen“: Der Rückzug der deutschen Besatzer aus Straßburg aus der Sicht
eines elsässischen Geistlichen und Angestellten im badischen Kultusministerium, 11.06.2016,
www.ns-ministerien-bw.de.
7with Frank Engehausen, Wie ein badischer Ministerialbeamter die Amtskette des Rektors der
Universität Straßburg heim ins Reich holte. Ein Beitrag zum 75. Jahrestag der Eröffnung der
Reichsuniversität Straßburg, 17.11.2016, www.ns-ministerien-bw.de.
„Im Umlauf bei…“: Bürokratische Alltagspraxis in der Zivilverwaltung im Elsass. Oder: Über die Kunst,
Kürzel zu entziffern, 16.11.2015, www.ns-ministerien-bw.de.
„dks u hhi…“[Danke schön und Heil Hitler]: Zur Datierung politischer Entscheidungen bei der
Besetzung des Elsass, 24.06.2015, www.ns-ministerien-bw.de.
Der badische Aktenknoten – im Elsass, 17.03.2015, www.ns-ministerien-bw.de.
„Entwelschung“ – „Entschwabung“: Von gallischen Hähnen, Reichsadlern und dem Straßburger
Münster, 19.01.2015, www.ns-ministerien-bw.de.
Der vergessene Genozid, 12.01.2013, www.publikative.org.
with Manuela Bauche, Dörte Lerp, Susann Lewerenz, and Kristin Weber, Kolonialismus im Kasten.
Erinnern und Vergessen im DHM, 26.02.2013, www.publikative.org.
with Manuela Bauche, Dörte Lerp, Susann Lewerenz, and Kristin Weber, Versteckt und verharmlost.
Kolonialgeschichte im Deutschen Historischen Museum Berlin, www.berlin-postkolonial.de.
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