About

I am an Associate Professor of Global History at the University of Kassel, Germany. I received my PhD in Modern History from the University of Göttingen in 2012. My research focuses on the entangled history of Europe, Lebanon and South Asia (19th–20th century), especially the history of mission & of food in the context of colonialism. My work which has taken me to libraries and archives in Germany, Lebanon, India, Britain, France, and the United States has been supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Deutsche Morgenländische Gemeinschaft and the Max Weber Foundation. During a research trip to India in 2017, I was affiliated with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. I am also a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA).

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Work in Progress

    An Entangled History of Vegetarianism (monograph)

    Peer-Reviewed Monographs

    German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions (Leiden: Brill, 2015).

    Published reviews:

    Motadel, David. “Review of German religious women in late Ottoman Beirut: competing missions, by Julia Hauser.” Journal of Global History 15 (2020), 2: 331—332.

    Ratschiller, Linda. “Review of Julia Hauser, German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions. Leiden: Brill 2015.” Historische Zeitschrift 309 (2019): 514—516.

    “Julia Hauser, German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut: Competing Missions” (New Texts Out Now). Jadaliyya, Sep. 18, 2018. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/37997

    Wendt, Helge. “Review of Julia Hauser, German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions. Brill: Leiden, 2015.” Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft: ZMR 99 (2015): 153—156.

    Peer-Reviewed Edited Volumes

    With Kirill Dmitriev and Bilal Orfali, eds., Food as a Cultural Signifier. Perspectives on the Middle East and Beyond (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020).

    With Christine Lindner and Esther Möller, eds., Entangled Education. Foreign and Local Schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate Lebanon (19th—20th Centuries), Beiruter Texte und Studien; 137 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016).

    Reviewed in:

    Sbaiti, Nadya. “Essential Readings on Education in the Middle East: Historical Works.” Jadaliyya (2018). Published electronically 01.08.2019. (within larger review of books on the history of education in the Middle East)

    Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

    “Internationalism and Nationalism: Indian Protagonists and Their Political Agendas at the 15th World Vegetarian Congress in India (1957).” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 44 (2021), 1: 152–166.

     

    With Harald Fischer-Tiné and Ashok Malhotra. “Feeding Bodies, Nurturing Identities: The Politics of Diet in Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial India.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 44, no. 1 (2021): 107–116.

    “Körper, Moral, Gesellschaft. Debatten über Vegetarismus zwischen Europa und Indien, ca. 1850—1920.” In Nicht-Essen. Gesundheit, Ernährung und Gesellschaft seit 1850, Norman Aselmeyer and Veronika Settele, eds. Beihefte der Historischen Zeitschrift; 73, 259—87. (Berlin; München: DeGruyter; Oldenbourg, 2018). (“Body, Morality, Society. Debates on Vegetarianism between Europe and India, ca. 1850—1920.” In Non-Eating. Health, Nutrition and Society since 1850, Norman Aselmeyer and Veronika Settele, eds. Beihefte der Historischen Zeitschrift; 73, 259—287 (Berlin; München: DeGruyter; Oldenbourg, 2018)).

    “From Transformation to Negotiation. A Female Mission in a “City of Schools”.” In Preaching the Civilizing Missions and Modern Cultural Encounters, Stefan Huebner and Diego Olstein, eds. Journal of World History 27, no. 3 (2016), 473—496.

     

    Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

    With Kirill Dmitriev and Bilal Orfali, “Introduction.” In Food as a Cultural Signifier. Perspectives on the Middle East and Beyond, Id, eds. Studies in Islamic History and Civilization; 163, 1—8 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020).

    “A Frugal Crescent. Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-century Vegetarian Discourse.” In Food as a Cultural Signifier. Perspectives on the Middle East and Beyond, Ead., Kirill Dmitriev and Bilal Orfali, eds. Studies in Islamic History and Civilization; 163, 292—316 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020).

    With Christine Lindner and Esther Möller, “Introduction.” In Entangled Education. Foreign and Local Schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate Lebanon (19th—20th Centuries), Eaed., eds., Beiruter Texte und Studien; 136, 11—28 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016).

    “Mothers of a Future Generation. The Journey of an Argument for Female Education.” Ibid., 143—161.

    Articles and Essays (Editor-Reviewed)

    “Global History.” In Handbook of Historical Animal Studies, edited by André Krebber, Mieke Roscher and Brett Mizelle, 215–228 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).

    “Vegetarianism between Europe and India: An Entangled History.” In Food, Fatness, and Fitness, edited by Jürgen Martschukat. http://foodfatnessfitness.com/2017/09/01/european-vegetarianism-india-entangled-history/, 2017 (last accessed 29 October 2019).

    “Eine vergessene Gründungsfigur: Malita Karabat (1832—1902) und die Anfänge eines protestantischen Mädchenwaisenhauses im spätosmanischen Beirut.” In Schule und Bildung in Frauenhand. Anna Vorwerk und ihre Vorläuferinnen, Gabriele Ball and Juliane Jacobi, eds., Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 237—50. (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2016). (“A Forgotten Founder: Malita Karabat (1832—1902) and the Beginnings of a Protestant Girls’ Orphanage in Late Ottoman Beirut.” In Women in Charge of Schools and Education. Anna Vorwerk and her Precursors, Gabriele Ball and Juliane Jacobi, eds., Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 237—250 (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2016).)

    “Mind the Gap! Raum, Geschlecht und die Zirkulation von Wissen in der Mission am Beispiel der Kaiserswerther Diakonissen in Beirut.” In Mission global. Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, Rebekka Habermas and Richard Hölzl, eds., 137—58 (Köln: Böhlau, 2014). (“Mind the Gap! Space, Gender, and the Circulation of Missionary Knowledge: The Case of the Kaiserswerth Deaconesses in Beirut” In Mission global. An Entangled History from the Nineteenth Century onwards, Rebekka Habermas and Richard Hölzl, eds., 137—158 (Cologne: Böhlau, 2014).)

    “Waisen gewinnen. Mission zwischen Programmatik und Praxis in der Erziehungsanstalt der Kaiserswerther Diakonissen in Beirut seit 1860.” WerkstattGeschichte, no. 57 (2011): 9—30. (“Gaining Orphans. Mission between Agenda and Practice in the Kaiserswerth Deaconesses’ Beirut Establishment since 1860. ” WerkstattGeschichte, no. 57 (2011): 9—30.)

    “Ferber, Johann Karl Christoph (1739—1786).” In Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, Heiner F. Klemme and Manfred Kuehn, eds., 651—652 (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2010).

    “Koch, Cornelius Dietrich (1676—1724).” In Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, ibid., 315—16.

    “‘…das hier so furchtbar verwahrloste weibliche Geschlecht aus dem Stande heben zu helfen’. Der emanzipatorische Auftrag Kaiserswerther Diakonissen im Osmanischen Reich und seine Ambivalenzen.” In Transkulturalität. Gender- und bildungshistorische Perspektiven, Wolfgang Gippert, Petra Götte and Elke Kleinau, eds., 219—236 (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008). (“‘Uplifting Neglected Womanhood’: The Kaiserswerth Deaconesses Emancipatory Mission in the Ottoman Empire and its Ambivalences. ” In Transculturality. Perspectives from the History of Gender and Education, Wolfgang Gippert, Petra Götte and Elke Kleinau, eds., 219—236 (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008).)

    Blog Posts

    “Unmasked: Covid-19 and the Cultural Dimensions of the Debate on Mandatory Face Masks.” Geschichte der Gegenwart, 08.04.2020.

    geschichtedergegenwart.ch/unmasked-covid-19-and-the-cultural-dimensions-of-the-debate-on-mandatory-face-masks/

    Vegetarianism between Europe and India: an Entangled History. Food, Fatness, and Fitness, 01.09.2017.

    foodfatnessfitness.com/2017/09/01/european-vegetarianism-india-entangled-history/

     

    Podcasts

    With Bilal Orfali: “Research in the Humanities“. Podcast AGYA Goes Viral. June 2020.

    https://soundcloud.com/arab-german-young-academy

     

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