Ulrike von Hirschhausen

Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History.
Full Professor, History Department, University of Rostock, Germany.
Ulrike von Hirschhausen

Ulrike von Hirschhausen (called Nellie) is a historian of imperial and global history, with a particular interest in writing global biographies of indigenous actors. Her book Empires: A Global History 1780-1920 (with Joern Leonhard) was published in 2023 and longlisted for the Austrian Academic Book Award 2024. She received her M.A. from Stanford University, her Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen and her Habilitation (second book) from the University of Göttingen.

One of her new book projects traces the history of "frozen conflicts" in the 20th and 21st centuries. It aims to remove this modern type of conflict, which often results in unrecognised de facto states, from the post-Soviet space, to shed light on its (post-) imperial dimension, and to propose a new conceptual framework that can be applied to these conflicts worldwide.