Coordination

Dr. phil. Sonja Dinter

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Contact:

Telephone: +49 5121 883-20762
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Room: Domäne, Haus 3, Raum 002
Consultation time: montags - freitags, nach Vereinbarung

Fields of work:

Academic studies and professional training

2019: University Certificate "Writing Coach", TU Darmstadt

2017: University Certificate "Development and management of research projects", Universities of Kassel and Marburg

03/2017: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in History at the University of Kassel.
Dissertation topic: "The integration of slavery and the slave trade into the culture of memory and politics of history of the postcolonial nations Britain and France since the late 1990s"
Final grade: "summa cum laude" (0.8)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp

08/2008: Magistra Artium, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Final grade: 1.0

2002 – 2008: Studies in Medieval And Modern History at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen and the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, minor subjects: Historical Science Journalism, Political Science, German Studies


Professional activity in research, teaching and research management

Since 07/2019: University of Hildesheim, Coordinator of the DFG Research Training Group 2477 "Aesthetic Practice"

10/2017 – 06/2019: Bauhaus University Weimar, University Policy Officer (staff unit), Office of The President

01/2014 – 0/2017: University of Kassel, Manager of the LOEWE Research Cluster "Animals – Humans – Society"

08/2009 – 04/2010: Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Coordinator of the DFG Research Unit 1101 "Communities of Violence"

05/2010 – 2/2013: University of Kassel, Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History

08/2008 – 07/2009: Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Research Assistant at the Department of History, coordination of the grant proposal and establishment of the DFG Research Unit "Communities of Violence"

2008 – 2023: Participation in numerous project proposals and third-party funding applications (including DFG: Individual Grant, Research Unit, Research Training Group, Collaborative Research Center; BMBF: Joint Federal Government-Länder Funding Programme for Junior Academics (Tenure-Track Programme), Women Professors Program; HMWK, TMWWDG research funding; Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gerda Henkel Foundation; publication funding, scholarships)


Publications

Dinter, Sonja: Die Macht der historischen Handlung. Sklaverei und Emanzipation in der britischen und französischen Erinnerungskultur seit Ende der 1990er Jahre, Bielefeld: Transcript 2018 (funded by Geschwister Boehringer Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften).

Dinter, Sonja: "Devoir d’histoire: Confronting the History of Slavery in Public Space in France", in: Paul E. Lovejoy / Vanessa S. Oliveira (Hg.), Slavery, Memory, Citizenship, Trenton [u.a.]: Africa World Press 2016, S. 211–226.

Forschungsschwerpunkt „Tier – Mensch – Gesellschaft“ (Hg.): Den Fährten folgen. Methoden interdisziplinärer Tierforschung, Bielefeld: Transcript 2016 (co-editor).