DR. INES PRODÖHL EDUCATION 2008 Dr. phil. in History (summa cum laude), University of Heidelberg Thesis: Die Politik des Wissens. Allgemeine Enzyklopädien im Dritten Reich, in der Schweiz und in der SBZ/DDR (The Politics of Knowledge. General Encyclopedias in the Third Reich, in Switzerland and in East Germany) 2002 M. A. (Magistra Artium) in Medieval and Modern History, German Studies, and Journalism, University of Leipzig, Thesis: Aufklärung und Pietismus. Die Darstellung des Pietismus in Zedlers Universal-Lexicon (Enlightenment and Pietism. The Representation of Pietism in Zedler s Universal-Lexicon ) ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Since 10/2008 Spring term 2013 Research Fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC (GHI); Ongoing post-doctoral research project: The Miracle Bean? The Soybean in Global Perspective, 1870s 1960s Visiting Scholar an der Georgetown University Washington DC, History Department 02/2005 09/2008 Research Fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the University of Heidelberg, History Department, Chair of Professor Madeleine Herren 10/2002 01/2005 Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Department of History and Department of German Studies, postgraduate studies for the dissertation research project FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2010 University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, co-financing of the conference Lives beyond borders: Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880 1960 2009 Ruprecht Karl Prize of the University of Heidelberg for outstanding dissertation 2009 Simon-Dubnow-Institut Leipzig, co-financing of the Workshop Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias 2009 Heilongjiang University Harbin and University of Heidelberg, co-financing of the conference Global Challenge and Regional Response: Northeast China 09/2002 01/2005 Gebert-Rüf-Stiftung Basel, Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Zurich 09/1999 08/2000 ERASMUS Scholarship, University of Zurich 1
MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS Since 2015 Since 2009 Since 2009 Since 2008 German Studies Association ENIUGH, European Network in Universal and Global History World History Association Associated with the University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context ACADEMIC SERVICE 2010-2013 Staff counselor (Personalrätin) at the GHI Involved participating in hiring committees, mediating between staff and directors, overseeing work-life balance of staff members 2011-2016 Coordinator of the GHI internship program since 2010 Coordinator of the GHI Research Seminar and the GHI Retreat 2009 Member of the GHI fellowship selection committee Since 2008 Member of the GHI library committee 2005 2008 Coordinator of the student tutor program at the Department of History, University of Heidelberg TEACHING (ALL IN GERMAN) Fall 2012 Fall 2011 Summer 2010 Summer 2008 Winter 2007/08 Summer 2007 Winter 2006/07 Summer 2005 The First World War Undergraduate seminar at the Bundeswehr University Munich The First World War Undergraduate seminar at the Bundeswehr University Munich Archival Summer Seminar in Germany, two-week course for advanced American graduate students in German historical studies Modern Global History: 19 th century World Economy: 19 th and 20 th century Lecture at the University of Heidelberg Modern European History: 20 th century Modern European History: 19 th century Modern Global History: 20 th century The Third Reich 2
Winter 2003/04 The Third Reich Undergraduate seminar at the University of Zurich CONFERENCE AND LECTURE ORGANIZATION Spring 2015 Intelligence Services and Civil Liberties: Security and Privacy in Historical Perspective, lecture series at the GHI, jointly organized with Patricia Casey Sutcliffe 01/2013 Food Commodities in Wartime: Soy, Wheat, Sugar, and U.S. Global Power in Twentieth Century, Session at the American History Association s annual conference, in cooperation with Adina Popescu Berk, April Merleaux, and Deborah Fitzgerald June 2011 Feb 2010 Fall 2009 Sept. 2009 Sept 2009 June 2009 April 2008 Feeding and Clothing the World: Cash Crops and Global History in the Twentieth Century, Conference at the GHI, in cooperation with Shane Hamilton Lives Beyond Borders: Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880 1960, Conference at the University of Heidelberg, in cooperation with Madeleine Herren DDR was bleibt? East German Legacies in German History, Lecture Series at the GHI jointly organized with Uta A. Balbier Why Write a Book? From Lived Experience to the Early Modern World in Europe, Lecture by Pamela H. Smith at the Grolier Club New York, NY, in celebration of the exhibition In Pursuit of Knowledge by the University Library Leipzig Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias, Workshop at the Simon Dubnow Institute Leipzig, in cooperation with Arndt Engelhardt Global Challenge and Regional Response: Early Twentieth-Century Northeast China, Conference at the Heilongjiang University Harbin, China, in cooperation with Dan Ben-Canaan and Frank Grüner Ethnic Ghettos and Transcultural Processes in a Globalized City: New Research on Harbin, Workshop at the University of Heidelberg, in cooperation with Frank Grüner 3
REFEREE FOR Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte Journal of Contemporary History PUBLIC DISSEMINATION TRAFO Beiträge zur transregionalen Forschung, Blog, 24.10.2014. Dan Charles: Why soybeans sit on the bench while corn takes the field, in: The Salt. National Public Radio s Food Blog, 7.6.2012. Meet me in Harbin! Dokumentarfilm von Thomas Lahusen und Olga Bakich, Toronto 2011. Saskia Biebert: Wissenslabyrinthe. Wieviel Allgemeinwissen braucht der Student?, in: Uncover, 28.2.2007. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPH Die Politik des Wissens. Allgemeine deutsche Enzyklopädien zwischen 1928 und 1956 [engl. Title: The Politics of Knowledge. General German Encyclopedias, 1928 1956]. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011. Selected Reviews: Wolfgang Benz. Das Historisch-Politische Buch 60, no. 2 (2012): 197f. Peter Haber. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 52 (2012). Ulrike Spree. H-Soz-u-Kult, August 30, 2011. EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES Food Commodities in Wartime. Global Food History 2, no. 1 (2016), guest-edited by April Merleaux and Ines Prodöhl. Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China, edited by Dan Ben-Canaan, Frank Grüner, and Ines Prodöhl. Springer: Berlin 2014. Ethnic Ghettos and Transcultural Processes in a Globalised City: New Research on Harbin. Itinerario 35, no. 3 (2011), guest-edited by Frank Grüner and Ines Prodöhl. Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias. Jahrbuch des Simon Dubnow Instituts 9 (2010), guest-edited by Arndt Engelhardt and Ines Prodöhl. Tutorienheft Neuzeit. Literatur zum Studium der Geschichte, arranged by Ines Prodöhl. Heidelberg: History Department, University of Heidelberg, 2006. 4
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS From Dinner to Dynamite: Fats and Oils in World War II. Global Food History 2, no. 1 (2016): 31-50. Versatile and Cheap: A Global History of Soy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Global History 8, no. 3 (2013): 461-482. Dynamiken globaler Vernetzung: Mandschurische Sojabohnen auf dem Weltmarkt. Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 61, no. 2 (2013): 75-89. Die Encyclopedia Americana und die Crux transnationaler Enzyklopädien. Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (2011). With Frank Grüner. Ethnic Ghettos and Transcultural Processes in a Globalised City: New Research on Harbin. Itinerario 35, no. 3 (2011): 17-22. ARTICLES IN NON-PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS A miracle bean : How Soy Conquered the West, 1909-1950. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC 46 (Spring 2010): 111-129. With Arndt Engelhardt. Kaleidoscopic Knowledge: On Jewish and Other Encyclopedias, Introduction. Jahrbuch des Simon Dubnow Instituts Leipzig 9 (2010): 3-13. Aus denen besten Scribenten. Zedlers Universal-Lexicon im Spannungsfeld zeitgenössischer Lexikonproduktion. Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert 29 (2005): 82-94. Die Usurpation des Wissens. Zivilgesellschaftliche Netzwerke und Enzyklopädien als Transfermedien im Dritten Reich. Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke Gesellschaft 17 (2004): 62-73. CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS With Dan Ben-Canaan and Frank Grüner, Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China (Introduction). In Entangled Histories: The transcultural past of Northeast China, edited by Dan Ben-Canaan, Frank Grüner, Ines Prodöhl, 1-11. Berlin: Springer 2014. Die Aushandlung von Wissen und das Erfolgsmodell des Konversations-Lexikons. In Am Anfang ist das Wort. Lexika in der Schweiz, edited by Marco Jorio and Cindy Eggs, 58-70. Baden: hier + jetzt, 2008. With Madeleine Herren. Informationspolitik und Geschichtswissenschaft. In Information und Ethik. Dritter Leipziger Kongress für Information und Bibliothek, edited by Barbara Lison, 404-408. Wiesbaden: Dinges & Frick, 2007. Schlag nach über Polen. War, Business, and Encyclopaedic Idea during World War II in Germany. In Allgemeinwissen und Gesellschaft. Akten des internationalen Kongresses über Wissenstransfer und enzyklopädische Ordnungssysteme, vom 18. bis 21. September 2003 in Prangins, edited by Paul Michel, Madeleine Herren, and Martin Rüesch, 513-527. Aachen: Shaker, 2007. With Madeleine Herren. Kapern mit Orangenblüten die globale Welt der Enzyklopädie. In Seine Welt wissen. Enzyklopädien der Frühen Neuzeit. Katalog zur Ausstellung der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, edited by Ulrich Johannes Schneider, 42-53. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006. 5
MISCELLANEOUS Book review of: Dimensionen internationaler Geschichte, edited by Jost Dülffer and Wilfried Loth, München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult, (May 10,2013). Archival Summer Seminar in Germany. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, 46 (Fall 2010): 130-133. Kaleidoscopic Knowledge. On Jewish and other Encyclopedias in Modernity: Conference Report. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, 46, Spring 2010: 133 136; also in: Bulletin des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts 11, 2010, S. 92 98. Book review of: Jakob Vogel, Ein schillerndes Kristall. Eine Wissensgeschichte des Salzes zwischen Früher Neuzeit und Moderne, Köln: Böhlau, 2007. H-Soz-u-Kult, (January 22, 2009). Book review of: Sacha Zala, Geschichte unter der Schere politischer Zensur. Amtliche Aktensammlungen im internationalen Vergleich, München: Oldenbourg 2001. H-Soz-u-Kult, (November 18, 2005). With François De Capitani, Nadine Hagen, Madeleine Herren, Paul Michel, Martin Rüesch, and Tobias Zimmermann. Im Gänsemarsch des All-Phabets. Reformatio 54, no. 3 (2004): 174-197. Strukturen der Macht im Wissenslabyrinth. Zur Rolle von Allgemeinwissen und Enzyklopädien. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, (November 4, 2003): B 11. Die politischen Religionen als Kategorie der Neuesten Geschichte: conference report. H-Soz-u-Kult, (December 17, 2003). Labyrinthe des Wissens. Internationaler Kongress über Enzyklopädien und die Idee von Allgemeinwissen. Unipublic, September 23, 2003. WORK IN PROGRESS The Miracle Bean? The Soybean in Global Perspective, 1870s 1960s, second book project. The Game of Second-guessing Continues. Cold War and American Readings of the Bol shaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. In Hidden Grammars of Transculturality: Shifting Powers of Encyclopedic Writing, edited by Madeleine Herren and Barbara Mittler. (forthcoming 2016). With Iwan Michelangelo D April. Die grenzübergreifende Unterwanderung der Obrigkeit. Politischer Wissenstransfer und liberale Diskurse in Brockhaus Konversationslexikon. In Weltwissen. Das Eigene und das Andere in Enzyklopädien und Wörterbüchern des 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, edited by Ina Ulrike Paul (forthcoming 2016). 6