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1 MORITZ VON BRESCIUS University of Konstanz Modern History Box 6, Universitätsstr Konstanz, Germany CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Since 10/14 University of Konstanz, Assistant Professor in Modern History Member and coordinator of the Leibniz Price Research Group on Global Processes led by Prof. Jürgen Osterhammel EDUCATION 09/10-08/14 European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy PhD: Empires of Opportunity: German Scholars Between Asia and Europe in the 1850s Supervisors: Profs. Antonella Romano (EUI/EHESS Paris) and Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz) Defended (no corrections): 17 February 2015 President of the Examining Board: Prof. Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) 10/12-06/14 University of Cambridge, Visiting Scholar in the research project: Germany and the World in the Age of Globalization: Cultural Exchanges, Mutual Perceptions 10/09-07/10 University of Oxford Master of Studies (MSt.) in Modern British and European History (Distinction, top of class) 10/05-07/09 Free University Berlin Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History and Political Science, (GPA: 1.3, very good) SELECTED PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS 06/16 Thesis prize ( Martin-Behaim-Prize ) of the German Society for Extra-European History 05/16 James Kaye Memorial Prize in History and Visuality, European University Institute, Second Prize for the dissertation 09/15 Young Scholars Award of the German Society for History of Medicine, Science and Technology (DGGMNT) for the best dissertation 07/13-08/14 SIAS Scholarships, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two Summer Institutes (Berlin & North Carolina) on Cultural Encounters 09/13-08/14 Fourth Year PhD Completion Grant, European University Institute, Florence 03/12 Two grants for a curatorial work in Munich to organise an 18-months exhibition on my doctoral thesis from the Alpine Museum and the Ernst von Siemens Arts Foundation 02-04/12 Archival Grant, Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gotha 02/12-08/12 Gerald Feldman Travel Grants at the German Historical Institutes in London and Paris 1

2 09/10-08/13 PhD Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 02/12-09/13 PhD Scholarship (ideational support), German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung) 09/10-08/11 PhD Scholarship, Schoeneberg-Stiftung (private academic foundation) 05/10 PhD Scholarship at the University of Oxford, Arts and Humanities Research Council (declined) 10/09-07/10 Master Study Grant (for MSt. at Oxford), British Chamber of Commerce in Germany 10/09-07/10 International Scholarship (for MSt. at Oxford), German National Merit Foundation 02/07-07/10 Study Grant (for B.A. at Berlin), German National Merit Foundation PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION (*peer-reviewed) Moritz von Brescius, German Science in the Age of Empire: Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers (under contract with Cambridge University Press, in the series Science in History, edited by Simon Schaffer and Jim Secord, in preparation for publication in early 2018).* Moritz von Brescius and Daniel Hedinger, The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and the World Wars, in Peter Bang, Christopher A. Bayly, Walter Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford World History of Empire, 2 Vols. (Oxford University Press, in preparation for publication in early 2018), ca. 35 pp.* Moritz von Brescius, Global Experts on the Move: Colonial Botany and the Formation of a Tropical Rubber Science, ca , in Axel Körner, Tessa Hauswedell and Ulrich Tiedau (eds.), Remapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Context, (University College London Press, in preparation for publication in late 2017). Moritz von Brescius, Cultural Brokers: Nain Singh und das Innenleben der Schlagintweit-Expeditionen in Asien, , Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte, 16 (Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, in press early 2017).* PUBLICATIONS (*peer-reviewed) Moritz von Brescius, Friederike Kaiser and Stephanie Kleidt (eds.), Über den Himalaya. Die Expedition der Brüder Schlagintweit nach Indien und Zentralasien 1854 bis 1858 (Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2015). Moritz von Brescius, Humboldt scher Forscherdrang und britische Kolonialinteressen: Die Indien- und Hochasien-Reise der Brüder Schlagintweit ( ), ibid., pp Moritz von Brescius, Hochstapler, Kolonial-Gehilfen, Helden. Die kontroverse Rezeption der Schlagintweit-Expedition, ibid., pp Moritz von Brescius, Stephanie Kleidt, Die Löwen des Tages. Die Indien- und Hochasienexpedition der Brüder Schlagintweit , Jahrbuch BERG 2015 (Munich, 2015), pp Moritz von Brescius, James White, Tilmann Kulke (eds.), Current Historiographical Research at the European University Institute, special issue of Zeitenblicke, online journal, 12 (2013). Moritz von Brescius, Tilmann Kulke, Interview about Global History, with Prof. Sebastian Conrad 2

3 (Free University Berlin), online publication at: Moritz von Brescius, The Cultural History of Empire, interview with Profs. Antonella Romano and Jorge Flores (EUI), online publication at: Moritz von Brescius, Connecting the New World. Nets, Mobility and Progress in the Age of Alexander von Humboldt, International Review for Humboldtian Studies (HiN), 25 (2012), pp * LECTURES, PAPERS, CONFERENCES (SELECTED FROM 28 PRESENTATIONS) (*invited) 06/17 * Das synthetische Zeitalter : Wissens- und Materialtransformationen im Anthropozän Research Colloquium, Rachel Carson Centre, Munich 12/16 Cultural Brokers and Their Enemies, Conference Historicising Cultural Brokers: Agency and the Limits of Power, 1700 to the Present, Cambridge (UK) 10/16 Rubber and the Nature of the Synthetic Age, Conference in collaboration with the Centre of Global History (Oxford) on Flows and Orders: A Tension in Global History, Konstanz 09/16 Expert Cultures in the Anthropocene: Rubber and the Formation of Trans-imperial Resource Regimes in the Tropics, , Conference on Resources and Economies of Knowledge in the Anthropocene, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 09/16 Migration, Social Mobility, and Indo-European Exchanges in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries, Panel organiser and speaker at the 51 st Bi-Annual Meeting of German Historians, Hamburg 07/16 * The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and the World Wars, World History Workshop, Osaka University, Japan 06/16 * Global experts on the move: colonial botany and the formation of a tropical rubber science, , conference Remapping Centre and Periphery: Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Context, , UCL London 02/16 * Trans-Imperial Science: Expert Networks and the Formation of a global rubber science, , Global History Colloquium, Free University Berlin 01/16 * The seed of empire. Colonial botany and the German rubber industry in its global context, , Colloquium on Perspectives in the History of Science, LMU Munich 07/15 Comparative Empires: the Case of Germany and Japan in the World Wars, at a three-day workshop exclusively with Prof. John Darwin on: Paths to Global History, Konstanz 06/15 * The challenge of global history: a view from the periphery (written with J. Osterhammel) Inaugural conference of the Leverhulme project Global Nodes, Global Orders, Oxford 03/15 Across the Himalayas: The Schlagintweit Expedition, , Keynote Lecture at the opening of the museum exhibition in Munich, Alpine Museum 05/14: * Overseas Exploration and the German Colonial (Imagi)nation in the 19 th Century, Modern European History Workshop, University of Cambridge 3

4 02/14 * Germany s rubber industry in a global context, 1860s-1930s, Wolfson College, Cambridge 11/12 The Colonial Careers of Imperial Outsiders : German Explorers in Central Asia in the 19 th Century, World History Postgraduate Workshop, Cambridge 06/12 * Epistemic exchange and Humboldtian science, Conference Epistemic Exchange in the Early Modern World, organised by the EUI (Florence) together with John-Hopkins University 03/12 German Scientists in Foreign Imperial Service, , German Historical Institute London ORGANISATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Co-organiser of a three-year long research project on Cultural brokers and their networks, 1700 to the present, funded by the DAAD research hub at Cambridge University, Co-funded by the International Office of Konstanz University, 5000 First Workshop: Historicizing Cultural Brokers: Agency and the Limits of Power, 1700 to the Present, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, December /17 Co-organiser with Stefan Hübner (Singapore), ENIUGH 2017, Accepted Double Panel: Ecological Transformations and Disasters in Global Environmental History, Budapest 01/17 Co-organiser with Jürgen Osterhammel of the Autorenworkshop on From Imperial to Global History, with Prof. em. Tony Hopkins (Cambridge), Konstanz 09/16 Section organiser with M. Frenz (Oxford), Migration, Social Mobility, and Indo-European Exchanges in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries, 51 st Historikertag, Hamburg since 06/16 Elected representative of the non-professorial teaching staff in the History Faculty, active involvement in the Committee to reform the current History Master Degree in Konstanz 07/15 Principal organiser of a three-day workshop in Konstanz with Prof. John Darwin (University of Oxford): Paths to Global History Postdoctoral member of the Leverhulme Network Project Global Nodes, Global Orders, Partner Universities of the Network are Oxford, Princeton, Osaka, Calcutta, Leiden Co-organiser with Jürgen Osterhammel and Cornelia Escher of the conference: Flows and Orders: A Tension in Global History, Konstanz, October /13-09/14 Research curator for the museum exhibition: Across the Himalayas. The Schlagintweit Expedition to India and Central Asia, , Alpine Museum, Munich 04/15 Co-organiser of the international conference Die Expedition der Brüder Schlagintweit im Spiegel der aktuellen Forschung, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich 01/14 Co-organiser of the workshop Ideologies of Empire in the Modern World, EUI (Florence) 05/12 Principal organiser and contributor to the international conference (EUI / LMU Munich): Colonial Careers: Transnational Scholarship Overseas in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries 4

5 ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING 07/13-08/14 SIAS Summer Institute: Cultural Encounters: Global Perspectives and Local Exchanges, , at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the National Humanities Center, NC, US 10/07-04/09 Social Science Group (Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolleg II, Studienstiftung): Two-years interdisciplinary Working Group on: Democracy and Globalisation TEACHING EXPERIENCE (*courses taught in English) University of Konstanz ( ): *Global cultural encounters since 1800 *Trade, Science and Conquest: The European East India Companies, 1700 to 1858 Japan in World History, *Introduction to Global History: Key Readings, Methods and Themes The imperial dimension of German History, *Brokers of Change: Experts and Cultures of Expertise in Historical Perspective *Europe s Industrialisation in Global Context *Comparative Empires in Modern History German perceptions of the Extra-European World, University of Cambridge (2013): Historical Argument & Practice (with Prof. Christopher Clark, St Catharine s College) RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS Imperial History Global History History of Knowledge History of Science and Technology Modern Asian History (Japan, India) History of Cultural Contacts History of Travel and Exploration Modern German and European History in Global Contexts Material Culture LANGUAGES German (native speaker) English (fluent) French (fluent) Italian (proficient, intermediate) Latin (qualification in Latin/Latinum) AFFILIATIONS Project Entangled Cartographies of Indian, French and German historians of science, invited Member Project Germany and the World: Cultural Exchanges, Mutual Perceptions, Cambridge, invited Member European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), Member Royal Historical Society (UK), Member 5

Academic Employment. Education

Academic Employment. Education Susan F. Longfield Karr Visiting Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute US Address: 59 Lorene Ave; Athens, Ohio 45701-2044 US Cell: (740) 249-5581 Email: Susan.Karr@eui.eu * Susanfkarr@gmail.com