Current research

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff

  • Family firms in Germany and the United States since industrialization
  • History of white-collar crime
  • Anthology (in progress), together with Biess, Frank and Strasser, Ulrike (eds.), Germans and Pacific Worlds: From the Early Modern Era to World War I, Oxford and New York (Berghahn Publishers).
  • Anthology (in progress), together with Rischbieter, Laura (eds.) Living on Easy Credit? Public Debt and Financialization in the Western World after 1945, New York/Cambridge (Palgrave Macmillan).
  • Anthology (forthcoming), together with Jan Logemann and Felix Römer (eds.), The Consumer on the Home Front: World War II Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective (Studies of the German Historical Institute London), Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2016.
  • Article (forthcoming): Consumption on the Home Front during the Second World War. A Transnational Perspective, in: Hartmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann and Felix Römer (eds.), The Consumer on the Home Front: World War II Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective, Oxford 2016.
  • Project: Immigrant Entrepreneurship


Dr. Robert Bernsee

  • Second Book Project: Creativity in Predigitalia. An Economic and Cultural History of Copyright in Trans-Atlantic Perspective, c. 1950-1980.
  • Forthcoming book: Moralische Erneuerung. Korruption und bürokratische Reformen in Bayern und Preußen, 1780-1820, (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung für Universalgeschichte) Göttingen.
  • Book in progress: Moderne Patronage. Formen und Legitimationen personaler Verflechtung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (zusammen mit Jens Ivo Engels, Volkhard Huth und Volker Köhler).
  • Article in progress: Whistleblowing in der Aufklärung? Radikale Korrespondenznetzwerke Deutschlands und Großbritanniens um 1800 im Vergleich.
  • Article in progress: For the Good of the Prince: Government and Corruption in Germany during the Long 18th Century.
  • Article in progress: Korruption als historisches Phänomen, in: Peter Graeff/Sebastian Wolf (Hrsg.): Korruption und Korruptionsbekämpfung ? Die Vermittlung in Lehre, Unterricht und Weiterbildung, Heidelberg/New York 2017 (in Vorbereitung).
  • Research project: Copyright in PräDigitalien. Kultur- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Urheberrechts in transatlantischer Perspektiver, 1945-1990


Dr. Alexander Engel

  • Book in progress: The birth of the risk economy: a history of futures trading [in German]
  • Participation in the SNF research project: "Markets on paper: information, dara and news in the Basel 'Avisblatt', 1729-1845"
  • Joint book in progress: Promises of the markets: new perspectives on the history of early modern economic culture [in German]
  • Article in progress: What is the Chicago Board of Trade? Changing perceptions of a capitalist institution, 1848-1948
  • Chapters in progress: for "Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds", "Oxford Handbook of Commodity History", Handbook on "Konsum und Wirtschaft" (De Gruyter)


PD Dr. Jan Logemann

  • Ongoing research project (monograph): Between Market and Piety: Funeral Cultures and Markets in Transatlantic Comparison
  • Article project: Raising Walls around America: Border Images and the Politics of Populism, 1870s to 1920s
  • Article project: Debating “Shopping While Black”: (In)Security, Race, and Discrimination in U.S.-American Retailing since the 1960s, for Special Issue "(In)security & (In)equality", Marcus Böick / Eva Gajek (eds.)
  • Article project: Migrant Knowledge – Potentiale und Probleme: Wissenstransfers durch Migration in Unternehmen im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Nele Falldorf / Nina Kleinöder / Christian Marx (Hrsg), Vergessene Akteure? (Schöningh 2024).
  • Article project (with Ingo Köhler): Market Research as a Strategy of Corporate Expectation Management, in Laetitia Lenel et al. (Hrsg), Handbook of Economic Expectations (Routledge 2024)
  • Handbook contribution: “Advertising in Germany”, in Robert Crawford (ed.), Routledge Companion to Advertising History(in preparation for 2024 - submitted)
  • Conference project: “Murky Business: Rediscovering the History Disreputable, Obscure and Morally Questionable Markets”, with Marcus Böick, Cambridge


PD Dr. Ingo Köhler

  • Research project: Wegmarken des Gründungsgeschehens: Die historische Genese von institutionellen Arrangements und Praxisformen des Gründens seit den 1960er Jahren
  • Research project: Wettbewerbsfaktor Resilienz. Risk Assessment und Krisenmanagement deutscher Unternehmen in Geschichte und Gegenwart (1970-2009)
  • Article in progress: "Marktforschung: Auf der Suche nach der postmodernen Gesellschaft"
  • Forthcoming book: Die Neuvermessung des Automobils. Gesellschaftswandel und das Marketingmanagement der deutschen Autoindustrie in den 1960er Jahren


Dr. Katja Wezel

  • Current research project:
    At the Crossroads of Modernity. Double-Entry Accounting, Business, and Cultural Practices of Jews in Imperial Russia's Western Borderlands, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (in cooperation with the University of Haifa)
  • Article (forthcoming): "The Baltic Timber Trade and the Port of Riga: Economic Empowerment of Traders and Middlemen in Imperial Russia’s Western Provinces, 1860s to 1914”, will be published in 2024 in the Economic History Yearbook.
  • Article (in the review process): "Entangled Competition: Globalization, Imperial Domination, and Local Development in the Port Cities of Riga and Odessa" (zusammen mit Boris Belge)
  • Article (in preparation): Latvia and the Great Depression, 1929 to 1933