Angelika Epple How Has the Practice of Comparing Evolved Over Time?
Angelika Epple is a Professor of History and Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Diversity at Bielefeld University. A spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center, Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World, Epple’s main areas of interest include the history of globalizations, the Americas as space of entanglement(s) and the theory of history. Epple has held numerous advisory and editorial roles including at the journals Neue Politische Literatur (NPL) and Localities, based in Busan, South Korea.
Area of Research
History of Globalisation, The Americas as Space of Entanglement(s), Practices of Comparisons, Theory of History, Comparative International Historiography, Higher Education Didactics: Open-Space-Methodology
since 2017
Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1288: Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World
University of Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld)
since 2015
Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Diversity
University of Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld)
2013-2017
Vice Speaker of the BMBF
University of Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld)
since 2008
Full Professor of History (19th and 20th Century)
University of Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld)
2007-2008
Senior Lecturer
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
2002-2007
Assistant Professor
Universität Hamburg
2001
Dissertation
University of Duisburg-Essen (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut/Essen
1995
First State Examination
Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin)
1986-1995
Studies in History, Literature, Philosophy and Educational Sciences
Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin)
1985
Studies in Spanish Language and Culture
Max Planck Society
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
- Co-editor of the series Beiträge zur Geschichtskultur (Contributions to Historical Culture), Böhlau-Verlag (2017)
- Co-editor of the Journal "Neue Politische Literatur" (NPL) (2011)
- Co-editor of the series: Historische Einführungen, Campus-Verlag
Fellowships
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, London (GHIL) (2006)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
- Scholarship of the Ministry of Science in North Rhine-Westphalia (1999)
- Scholarship of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen (2000)
Research has shown that the practice of comparing is determined more by the actors doing the comparing than by the phenomena being compared. In this video, focusing on Cuba in the long nineteenth century, ANGELIKA EPPLE explores how comparisons based on race and skin color evolved in parallel with the changing makeup of that society. With contemporary discourse witnessing an upsurge in race-based comparisons keen to present themselves as natural, Epple’s work importantly foregrounds the fact that they are, in reality, historical and constructed.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10771
Practices of Comparing. A New Research Agenda Between Typological and Historical Approaches
- Angelika Epple and Walter Erhart
- Practices of Comparing. Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice
- Published in 2020
Calling for a Practice Turn in Global History: Practices as Drivers of Globalization/s
- Angelika Epple
- History and Theory
- Published in 2018
Die Welt beobachten - Praktiken des Vergleichens
- Angelika Epple and Walter Erhart
- Die Welt beobachten - Praktiken des Vergleichens
- Published in 2015
