Professor of Urban and Spatial History - Prof. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh

The research of cities and spaces from a historical perspective is at the centre of this Professorship. Since 2023, the joint appointment has established a link between the European University Viadrina and the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) in Erkner, in particular through the management of the research focus "Contemporary History and Archive" at the IRS.

The question of how expert knowledge and everyday actions, systems and lifeworlds, ideas and practices are connected forms the common thread of my research across the various fields and periods of investigation - from my doctoral thesis "Mordlust" on the history of violence in the 20th century in different German contexts to my habilitation "Menschen zählen" ("Counting people") as a history of knowledge in Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries to research into the "long history of the 'Wende'" and thus the period before, during and after 1989.