| PhD Fellow | |
| Herkunftsinstitution: | Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana |
| Zeit am Institut: | 2026, 2027 |
| Förderung: | IEG Stipendium |
| Forschungsthema: | A Disturbance of Memory at the Ethnographic Museum: Curating Race, Culture, and Empire in Postcolonial Hamburg, 1919-1949 |
| "The principal question of my dissertation research asks how the boundaries of the German imperial imagination changed over the first half of the twentieth century in the aftermath of two world wars. While I address a macro-level question about Germany in the world, I focus empirically on the micro-historical scale of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology (then the Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde; today the Museum am Rothenbaum - Kulturen und Künste der Welt or MARKK) between 1919 and 1949. Such a museum serves as a revealing lens through which to understand the rapidly changing status of Germany from an overseas colonial power to a supposedly ‘postcolonial’ republic, then a brief period as a continental empire organized along racial lines, ultimately followed by military defeat and several years under Allied occupation. I am principally interested in how the knowledge producers employed at the museum and public visitors used the city’s ethnographic museum to make sense of changing ideas about race, culture, and empire in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century." |
(c) Brian Quinn
