Sabine Mischner
PhD Student
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Department of History
Professur für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte Westeuropas
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
CV
since 2020 | Academic editor at Heidelberg University Publishing |
2020–2021 | Academic editor at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz |
2019 | Doctoral scholarship of the FAZIT foundation |
2016–2019 | Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
since October 2014 | PhD candidate |
2012–2015 | Student research assistant at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe |
2012–2014 | M.A. in Comparative History of Modern Age at the University of Freiburg |
2011–2012 | M.Phil. in Modern European History at Cambridge University |
2009–2011 | Student research assistant at the School of History of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and at the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe |
2008–2011 | B.A. in Early Modern and Modern History and Economics at the University of Freiburg |
Research Project
Temporal Practices in the American Civil War
In my dissertation project, I examine temporal practices found in and shaping the American Civil War. I focus on the practical use of time by four groups of actors: soldiers, civilians, military institutions, and political leadership.
The goal of the project is to identify the interactions between temporal practices, warfare, and the experience of war. To this end, the following areas will be analyzed: military logistics and time discipline, military time management; political proclamations and mobilization appeals, imposition of martial law; individual temporal practice through diary writing, widespread watch purchase by soldiers, and the constitution of military-civilian time through military mail correspondence. The overarching aim is to analyze the pluritemporality of this war and to map the reciprocal influences of warfare and temporal practices. Thus, this project contributes to the cultural history of war as well as the history of time and temporality.
Publications
- The Temporalities of Exception. The Long Shadow of the American Civil War, in: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 28 (2018) 4, pp. 439–451, DOI
- Review of Kranz, Isabel (Hrsg.): Was wäre wenn?. Alternative Gegenwarten und Zukunftsprojektionen um 1914. Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-5881-0, in: H-Soz-Kult, 24.04.2018, Link
- Das Zeitregime des Krieges. Zeitpraktiken im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Lucian Hölscher (ed.), Die Zukunft des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dimensionen einer historischen Zukunftsforschung, Campus Verlag: Frankfurt a. M., New York 2017, pp. 75–100.
- Tagebuchschreiben als Zeitpraxis. Kriegstagebücher im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte (2016) 3, pp. 77–90.