Prof. Dr. Korinna Schönhärl
Faculty of Arts and Humanities » Historisches Institut » Modern and Contemporary History
Contact and Affiliations
- E-Mail:
- korinna.schoenhaerl@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-2436
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-7967-3261
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- Office Address:
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Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- N4.332
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Thinking social, economic and cultural history together - because all three can only be understood in their interconnectedness!
About Korinna Schönhärl
How did culture and society influence economic activity? And what impact did economics and economic thinking have on the way people lived together in societies? In what discursive framing did people of the past think about economic issues? I am particularly interested in these fascinating questions with regard to the 19th and 20th centuries, in cooperation with colleagues from the fields of economics, religious studies, law and political science.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 04/2024: Professorin für Neuere/Neueste Geschichte
01.10.2021 - 31.03.2024: Heisenberg-Professor for Modern History at University Paderborn
01.04.2021 - 30.09.2021: Deputy Professor for Modern History at University Paderborn
01.10.2020 - 31.03.2021: Deputy Professor for the History and Culture of Technology at KIT Karlsruhe
01.10.2018 - 28.02.2019: Guest Professor at University Lyon II
01.04.2009 - 28.02.2018: Senior Researcher
at University Duisburg-Essen
16.11.2016: Habilitation thesis
in Modern History at University Duisburg-Essen ("European Investment in Greece in the 19th century")
01.10.2005 - 31.12.2008: PhD student
at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
18.12.2008: PhD
at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. ("Knowledge and Visions. The Economists in the Stefan George-Circle")
01.09.2003 - 30.09.2005: Approbation as teacher
for secondary school
01.10.1997 - 30.06.2003: Student of History and German Literature
at University Regensburg and Aristoteles University Thessaloniki
Since 01.05.2019: Geisteswissenschaften International Prize for outstanding work in the humanities for habilitation thesis European investment in Greece in the 19th Century
European Investment in Greece in the 19th Century
Since 01.10.2009: Friedrich Sperl-Award for best dissertation of the Historical Institute of the Goethe University Frankfurt
01.03.2018 - 30.09.2021: Heisenberg-Project Leader (German Research Foundation)
at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. with the project "Interantional Cultural History of Tax Morale"
01.10.2016 - 30.09.2017: Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in History, Munich
Tax history reveals more clearly than almost any other field how social interests clashed and how they were negotiated - right at the heart of modern societies.
Research
Research Interests
History of the 19th and 20th Century
Economic, Social and Cultural History
History of Modern Greece, Spain and the USA
Transnational History
Methods of Historiography
Financial, Banking and Tax History
Publications
Latest Publications
K. Schönhärl, B. Leucht, in: M. Häußler, M. Roos (Eds.), Europäische Einigung zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. Eine historische Bestandsaufnahme, Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2024, pp. 115–128.
K. Schönhärl, Themenportal Europäische Geschichte (2024).
K. Schönhärl, in: R.-U. Kunze (Ed.), Über Sparsamkeit. Eine Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 2024, p. 11f.
K. Schönhärl, G. Hürlimann, D. Rohde, Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance, 1st ed., Routledge, London, 2023.
K. Schönhärl, G. Hürlimann, D. Rohde, in: K. Schönhärl, G. Hürlimann, D. Rohde (Eds.), Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance , 1st ed., Routledge, 2023, pp. 1–15.
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History is never finished, we always have to rethink and rewrite it from our own perspective.
Teaching
Teaching Areas
Researching and understanding the history of the 19th and 20th centuries - German, European and international!
Current Courses
- Zwischenkriegszeit in Europa (NG)
- Mission und Kolonialismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
- MAP - Mastermodul Historischer Schwerpunkt A3 (GyGe)
- MAP - Mastermodul Historische Epochen A2 (HRSGe/GyGe)
- Forschungskolloquium Neuere/Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte
- Einführung in die Neuere/Neueste Geschichte (NG)
Additional Activities
In the student blog project "Paderborn Postcolonial", students are researching the connections that have linked Paderborn and the surrounding area with the German colonies and have left their mark on our minds to this day.
In 2020 I completed the E-learning Certificate at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
From 2003 to 2005 I completed my traineeship as a secondary school teacher (history and German) in Bavaria.
Outreach
In articles for daily newspapers, radio interviews and podcasts, I make my exciting research findings accessible to a wide audience.
Scientific Engagement
Since 01.12.2023 | Mitglied im Beirat der Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus
Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus
Since 01.11.2023 | Deputy member of the Senate Ethics Committee
of Paderborn University
Since 10/2023 | Stellvertretendes Mitglieder der Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften am Philosophischen Fakultätentag
der Universität Paderborn
Since 01.10.2023 | Director of the Historical Institute
of Paderborn University
Since 01.10.2023 | Member of the Faculty Council of Cultural Sciences
of Paderborn University
Since 01.10.2023 | Member of the scientific advisory board of the "New City History of Dortmund" at the Dortmund City Archives
Since 01.03.2023 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Banking and Financial History
Institute for Banking and Financial History
Since 01.03.2023 | Member of the Board and Secretary of the Association of Social and Economic History
Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
01.09.2018 - 01/2024 | Academic Councellor of the Specialised Information Service for Russian, East and Southeast European Studies at the National Library in Munich
Since 02/2024 | Member of The Anthropology of Tax Network
The Anthropology of Tax Network
Since 01.09.2021 | Member of the Standing Field Committee on Econonic History of the German Economic Association
Standing Field Committee on Econonic History of the German Economic Association
Since 01.03.2021 | Member of the Working Group Women in Economic History
Since 01.09.2016 | Member of the Executive Committee of the Working Group for International History of the German Historians Association
AG Internationale Geschichte des VHD
Since 01.05.2016 | Member of the Working Group on Tax History
Further Information
Betreute Doktorarbeiten
Julian Muhs: Fiktionale Geschichtsnarrative im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg (laufend)
Felix Kaupmann: Die „Weltmission“ der Mariannhiller Missionare im Südlichen Afrika in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Zweitbetreuung, laufend)
Daphne Papadaki: Moral economies of foreign economic supervision and financial control in Greece: The German mission, 1897-1916 (laufend, Zweitbetreuung an der Kapodistrian University of Athens)