Christine Ludl

Research and Teaching Interests 

  • History of German and American (Social) Psychology in the first half of the 20th century
  • History and Epistemology of the concept of (social) representation(s)
  • Methodology and knowledge production in the social and cultural sciences
  • Migration, mobility and urban transformation in West- and South Africa

Current Research Project

  • Knowlege and its application: Psychological Research at Technical College of Dresden / Dresden University of Technology (1918 - 1967)

Education

  • 2008 – Ph.D. in Political Science (Political Sociology), Freie Universität Berlin / Sciences Po Paris
  • 2000 – Diplom (MA-equivalent) in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 1998 – German-French Diploma in Political and Social Science, Freie Universität Berlin / Sciences Po Paris

Research Experience

  • Since 01/2023 Scientific coordinator of the research project "Technical College of Dresden under National Socialism", Institute of History, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  • 08/2022 – 12/2022 Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden, Germany (affilliated researcher since 01/2023 )
  • Since 10/2011 – Associated Researcher, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
  • 03/2013 – 12/2016 – Associated Senior Fellow, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany
  • 02/2011 – 02/2013 – Postdoctoral Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth
  • 08/2008 – 02/2010 – Postdoctoral Researcher, African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand / French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), Johannesburg, South Africa

Grants

  • 11/2015 – Visiting Fellow, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS), New York University, New York City, U.S.A., CIRHUS-RAC Research fellowship for archival research, Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC), Sleepy Hollow, U.S.A.
  • 07/2010 – Meisterklasse 2010, University of Konstanz, Germany, fellow
  • 11/2008 – 12/2008 – Columbia University, New York City, U.S.A., Alliance Program, doctoral mobility grant, archival research, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.
  • 12/2006 – Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, short-term doctoral fellowship
  • 11/2005 – 08/2006 – French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eiffel Scholarship Program of Excellence
  • 04/2005 – 09/2005 – European Commission, Marie Curie Fellowship
  • 04/2002 – 03/2005 – Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, doctoral fellowship
  • 01/2002 – 03/2002 – German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), short-term doctoral fellowship

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Chapters in edited volumes

  • (2014) “Ambivalent Cosmopolitans? Representation(s) of Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg”, in Mamadou Diouf, Rosalind Fredericks (eds.): The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities. Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, p. 231-252 (peer reviewed).
  • (with Gonin, Patrick) (2007) "Générations de la migration. Introduction", in Emmanuel Ma Mung, Cédric Audebert (eds.) Les migrations internationales: enjeux contemporains et questions nouvelles, Bilbao: Publications de l'Université de Deusto, p. 177-181 (editor reviewed).

Reveiw articles

  • (2014) Dominique Vidal: Migrants du Mozambique dans le Johannesburg de l’après-apartheid. Travail, frontières, altérité, Paris, Johannesburg, Karthala-IFAS, 2014, in: Politique africaine (135), p. 230-232.

Presentations

  • (2021) "Foundational work 'on the ground'. Gestaltpsychology, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the production of knowledge in American Social Psychology in the 1930s and 1940s.” Presentation at the Seminar of the Research Focus Mobilities, Migrations, Reconfiguration of Spaces, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 23 February 2021. 
  • (2018) Invited participant to the conference “Denis-Constant Martin, l’in-discipliné”. Participation in the panel “Au-delà des OPNI? Réappropriation, développement, critique”, Sciences Po Bordeaux, 20 – 21 November 2018.
  • (2016) “Studying ‘representations’ in the Global South. From an object of research to a conceptual history and epistemology of representation(s)”. Paper presented at the Concepta Research Seminar “Comparing the Concepts of Representation”, organized by the Civic Constellation II project, Concepta: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, the CLAIMS project (ANR-DFG) and HiSoPo (AFSP), 18 – 19 November 2016, Sciences Po Paris.
  • (2013) “From researching migration to researching the city: representation(s), the senses, and the making of (ethnographic) places in Johannesburg, South Africa”. Paper presented at the AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, 27 – 29 June 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • (2012) “Mobility and the Experience of Places: Senegalese and Malian migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa and Paris, France”. Paper presented at the international conference Migration, Memory, Place, Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies / Network for Migration and Culture, University of Copenhagen / Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, 5 – 7 December 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • (2011) “’Ambivalent Cosmopolitans’? Representation(s) of Mobility, Diversity, and Success of Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg”. Invited participant to the international conference The Art of Citizenship in African Cities, organized by Mamadou Diouf and Rosalind Fredericks, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, 6 – 7 May, New York City, U.S.A.
  • (2010) “Migration, Diversity, and Placemaking. Representations of Mobility and Success of Senegalese and Malian Migrants in Johannesburg”. Presentation at the Meisterklasse 2010 “Clash of Cultures?”, chaired by de Craig Calhoun, Wang Hui, Mohammed Arkoun, and Jürgen Osterhammel, 19 – 27 July, University of Konstanz, Germany.
  • (2010) “Mobilités africaines et recompositions urbaines post-apartheid”. Paper presented at the international conference Colloque des IFRE (Instituts de Recherche Français à l’Etranger) “Un monde en mouvement. Enjeux politiques et migrations”, 5 – 6 January, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris.
  • (2009) “Représentation(s) de la mobilité et insertion dans la ville des migrants sénégalais et maliens à Johannesburg”. Paper presented at the closing conference of the project ANR MITRANS, 10 – 12 December, Nice, France.
  • (2009) "'To skip a step': New Representation(s) of Migration, Success and Politics in Senegalese Rap and Theatre”. Seminar presentation at the Department of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Pretoria, 20 October 2009, Pretoria, South Africa.
  • (2009) “L’analyse des représentation(s) – une pluralité de méthodes pour saisir les croisements entre l’individuel, le collectif et le contexte”. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the French Association of Political Science, 7 – 9 September, Grenoble, France.
  • (2009) “Representations and imaginations of mobility and success: West African migrants in France and South Africa”. Paper presented at the AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, 4 – 7 June 2009, Leipzig, Germany.
  • (2007) “Popular culture and political change: social representations of mobility and success in Senegalese society”. Paper presented at the AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, 11 – 14 July 2007, Leiden, Netherlands.
  • (2005) “Social hierarchies, social status, and solidarity: West African Migrants between France and their countries of origin”. Paper presented at the international conference “Stratification within transnational migrant communities”, MIGRINTER-MSHS, 25 – 26 May 2005, University of Poitiers, France.
  • (2005) “Culture, Politics and the role of Representations: Theoretical findings and lessons from methodology”. Paper presented at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Joint Session of Workshops, 14 – 20 April 2005, Granada, Spain.
  • (2002) “Representing the others. Undocumented migrants and their supporters mobilizing in France 1996/97.” Paper presented at the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Joint Session of Workshops, 22 – 27 mars 2002, Turin, Italy.

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