Focal areas of research
- Early modern history of trade and industry
- Liberalisation of the economic order and modern merchandise management in industrial capitalism
- Gender history of work
- Bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie and working class in the 19th and 20th centuries
- History of the City of Leipzig; Urban History
- Louise Otto Peters research
- International feminism and women's movements
- Migration and identity
- and various aspects of racism, nationalism, imperialism, violence and sexism, as well as the history of institutions, knowledge, and everyday life in the 20th century