Bodie
 
Ashton
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

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Dr. Bodie A. Ashton

Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room
phone: 0331/28991-80

E-Mail: bodie.ashton [at] zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

April 2024 to present
Research Associate in Department V, ZZF Potsdam

January 2021 to March 2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in the VolkswagenStiftung-funded research group "The Other Global Germany", University of Erfurt

November 2016 to December 2020
Postdoctoral Lecturer and Professional Academic Editor in the ERC-funded research project "Reconsidering Constitutional Formation (ReConFort)", University of Passau

2010 to October 2016
Tutor and Researcher, University of Adelaide (Australia)

Projects

Publications

Editorships

  • Book series Transnational Queer Histories (De Gruyter Brill, Berlin), coeditorship with Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier — since 2022. 

Monographs and Edited Collections

  • Ashton, Bodie A., Sarah Frenking and Ned Richardson-Little (eds.) Deviant Global Germany: Transnational Histories of Crime, Morality and Mobility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025 (pending). 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. (ed.) The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A., Amy Bonsall and Jonathan Hay (Hrsg.) Talking Bodies, vol. II: Bodily Languages, Selfhood and Transgression. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 

Journal Articles

  • Ashton, Bodie A. "The Parallel Lives of Liddy Bacroff: Transgender (Pre)History and the Tyranny of the Archive in Twentieth-Century Germany." German History 42, no. 1 (2024): 79-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad071
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Kingship,. Sexuality, and Courtly Masculinity: Frederick the Great and Prussia on the Cusp of Modernity." ANU Historical Journal II 1, no. 1 (2019): 109-135. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. " 'Subjects of our most gracious Majesty': Constitutionalism and Constitutionalisation in South Australia Colony: An Agenda for Future Research." Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 37, no. 1 (2019): 243-261. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Constitutionalism as a Force of Popular Loyalty: Constitutional and Unconstitutional Württemberg in the Nineteenth Century." Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 34, no. 2 (2017): 137-160. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "In Defence of Paul Ham: History as its Own Worst Enemy." Flinders Journal of History and Politics 31 (2015): 3-14. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Retrospective: Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov's Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953, Ten Years Later." Flinders Journal of History and Politics 29 (2013): 2-7. 

Chapters in Edited Collections

  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Two Fathers and Train Drivers in Skirts: 'Importing Identities' and Trans Moral Panics in the West German Press in the 1970s." In Deviant Global Germany: Transnational Histories of Crime, Morality and Mobility, eds. Bodie A. Ashton, Sarah Frenking und Ned Richardson-Little. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025 (pending). 
  • Ashton, Bodie A., Sarah Frenking and Ned Richardson-Little. "Deviant Global History: Spaces, Borders, Sexuality." In Deviant Global Germany: Transnational Histories of Crime, Morality and Mobility, eds. Bodie A. Ashton, Sarah Frenking und Ned Richardson-Little. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025 (pending). 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Trans* Körper als Frage der Staatssicherheit? Zwei Hamburger Fallstudien zur Verfolgung geschlechtsnonkonformer Menschen in der NS-Zeit." In KörperZeiten: Narrative, Praktiken und Medien, eds. Manuel Bolz, Fabian Röderer und Constanze Wallenstein, 99-114. Berlin: Reimer, 2024. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Hit Music, Disco Potential, Pop Kids." In The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society, ed. Bodie A. Ashton, 1-14. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "He Dreamed of Machines: Queer Heritage and the Pet Shop Boys' Turing Test." In The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society, ed. Bodie A. Ashton, 49-73. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. and Carolin Isabel Steiner. "It's (Not) Obvious: Queerness and Queer Identities Pre- and Post-Bilingual." In The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society, ed. Bodie A. Ashton, 245-265. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A. "Marginalisiert, unsichtbar? Der Kampf um die Anerkennung der vergessenen Opfer des Dritten Reichs." In Erinnerungskämpfe. Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein, ed. Jürgen Zimmerer, 131-153. Leipzig: Reclam, 2023. 
  • Ashton, Bodie A., Amy Bonsall and Jonathan Hay. "Introduction." In Talking Bodies, vol. II: Bodily Languages, Selfhood and Transgression, eds. Bodie A. Ashton, Amy Bonsall und Jonathan Hay, 1-16. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

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