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The Chair of Social and Economic History
The Chair of Social and Economic History is one of nine Chairs at the Institute of History. Professor Susanne Schötz has held the Chair since 2006.
The Chair of Social and Economic History at TU Dresden presents a view of economic history that is interested in the respective specific normative ideas of correct and good economic activity, the associated institutions, and the concrete practices of the actors in securing material production, distribution, and consumption. In this context, social history exists primarily as a history of social inequality and as a history of social ideas and movements.
With a view to both disciplines, it is the explicit intention of the Dresden Chair of Social and Economic History to combine economic and social history issues with those of women's and gender history. This specific feature of the category of gender distinguishes it from other chairs of social and economic history in Germany. The Chair aims to analyse the importance of economic factors, social references, and cultural conditioning - especially gender - in specific historical constellations. Methodologically, this approach seeks to link structural history, historical anthropology and gender history. In teaching, the objective is both research-oriented and practical education. To this end, we cooperate with various partners at TU Dresden, in particular the GenderConceptGroup, but also with archives and museums within the framework of DRESDEN-concept and beyond.
