We research and teach modern history with a focus on the long 19th century. We focus on transnational, (post-)colonial and global perspectives. The thematic focus of our work is on the history of the Anthropocene, family and childhood, gender and sexuality, port cities, empires and migration.
During the winter semester, Sandra Maß is a Visiting Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, England.
Lasse Heerten holds the interim professorship in Transnational History in the summer semester of 2026 and the winter semester of 2026/27.
In 2025, the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the follow-up project Globale Familiengeschichte. Die Kaundinyas zwischen protestantischer Mission, europäischem Kolonialismus und Nationalsozialismus, 1850–1945 to support the completion of a book project by Sandra Maß.
Sandra Maß will take a research sabbatical during the winter semester 2025/26. Office hours will be arranged individually by appointment.
Lasse Heerten writes in the FAZ of 18.08.2021 on the current debate about the Holocaust and (post-)colonialism: Biafra zum Beispiel.
The DFG is funding the project Global Family History: The Kaundinyas between Protestant Mission and European Colonialism, 1850-1945 from 2020 to 2022.
Sandra Maß: Is "The Abyss of History [...] Deep Enough to Hold Us All"? Writing (German) History in the Anthropocene, in: Peter van Dam, Krijn Thijs (Hgg.): Green Germany? Environmental Governance in the Age of Climate Change, Heidelberg 2026, S. 39-64.
Julika Mariko Jacoby, Sandra Maß: The Daimonocene. Multitemporal Revenants of the Anthropocene in the Maritime Cultures of Japan and Norway, in: Anna-Lena Eick, Achim Landwehr und Tom Vanassche (Hgg.), Geschichte/n schreiben im Anthropozän, Göttingen 2026, S. 189-222.
Sandra Maß: Zukünftige Vergangenheiten. Geschichte schreiben im Anthropozän, Göttingen 2024.
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Faculty of History
Transnationale Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts
GA 6/51
Universitätsstr. 150
D-44801 Bochum
E-Mail: transhistory@rub.de
Heike von Hagen
Tel.: 0234 32-24664
GA 4/139
Please check the office hours here.
Prof. Dr. Sandra Maß will be on leave during the summer semester of 2026 and the winter semester of 2026/27. Office hours will be held by individual appointment only.
Office hours with Dr. Lasse Heerten take place in presence (room GA 6/51).