Bodie AshtonWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Contact
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.Â
Monographs and Edited Collections
- Ashton, Bodie A., Sarah Frenking and Ned Richardson-Little (eds.)Â Deviant Global Germany: Transnational Histories of Crime, Morality and Mobility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025 (pending).Â
- Ashton, Bodie A. (ed.) The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society. London: Bloomsbury, 2024.Â
- Ashton, Bodie A., Amy Bonsall and Jonathan Hay (Hrsg.)Â Talking Bodies, vol. II:Â Bodily Languages, Selfhood and Transgression. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.Â
- Ashton, Bodie A. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.Â
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."Â ANU Historical Journal IIÂ 1, no. 1 (2019): 109-135.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- Ashton, Bodie A. "In Defence of Paul Ham: History as its Own Worst Enemy." Flinders Journal of History and Politics 31 (2015): 3-14.Â
- 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.Â
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).Â
- 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).Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
Media
Public Engagement
- Ashton, Bodie A. Stellungnahme zum Antrag der Fraktion DIE LINKE: Die "vergessenen" queeren Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung (20/5359), 57th Sitting of the Legal Commission of the German Bundestag (22 May 2023): https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/949530/b3049282966bcfb5bb3bc334bb92bd6c/Stellungnahme-Ashton.pdf
- Ashton, Bodie A. Questions and Answers in the Minutes of the 57th Sitting of the Legal Commission of the German Bundestag (22 May 2023): https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/977560/7759f4105403ba904105ba9158d74a32/Wortprotokoll.pdf
Documentaries
- Ashton, Bodie A. in Verbotene Liebe — Queere Opfer in der NS-Diktatur, ZDFinfo, 2024: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfinfo-doku/verbotene-liebe-queere-opfer-der-ns-diktatur-100.htm
Podcasts
- Ashton, Bodie A. and Stephen Fry, "Frederick the Great", You're Dead to Me, BBC Podcasts (10 June 2022): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ccdc5q
- Ashton, Bodie A. in "Die binäre Erzählung — Transgeschlechtlichkeit", Our Voices, Our Choices, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (25. Juni 2021): https://www.boell.de/de/media/soundcloud/die-binaere-erzaehlung-transgeschlechtlichkeit-23-our-voices-our-choices
- Ashton, Bodie A. "On German Nationhood, Unexpected Snails and the Pet Shop Boys", A Bit Lit (28 April 2021): https://abitlit.co/history/bodie-ashton-on-german-nationhood-unexpected-snails-and-the-pet-shop-boys/
Interviews
- Ashton, Bodie A. for Maggie Baska, "The persecution of trans people by the Nazis was devastating – and it still echoes down the ages", The Pink News (14 March 2024: https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/14/trans-history-wwii-nazi-germany-nazis-transgender-magnus-hirschfeld/
- Ashton, Bodie A. with Fernando Augusto Pacheco about The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society, "The Stack", Monocle Radio, episode 602 (2 March 2024): https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-stack/602/
- Ashton, Bodie A. for Veronika Kracher, "Transfeindlicher Mob auf Twitter", Belltower News (9 August 2022): https://www.belltower.news/hass-gegen-dana-mahr-der-transfeindliche-mob-auf-twitter-136617/
Blogs
- Ashton, Bodie A. "'So Long as You Say I Lived as a Woman': Why Queer History Matters", De Gruyter Conversations (31 May 2023): https://blog.degruyter.com/so-long-as-you-say-i-lived-as-a-woman-why-queer-history-matters/
- Ashton, Bodie A. "Coming Home and Coming Out? Germany, EURO 2020, and the Battle for Queer Rights", De Gruyter Conversations (19 July 2021): https://blog.degruyter.com/coming-home-and-coming-out-germany-euro-2020-and-the-battle-for-queer-rights/
- Ashton, Bodie A. "State of Nature: The Australian Federal Government would do well to remember some ideas from Western state philosophy, such as Bodin, Hobbes and Locke, especially when it comes to the responsibilities of a government", Digital Research Magazine, Universität Passau (17 January 2020): https://www.digital.uni-passau.de/en/stories/2020/bushfire-crisis-in-australia
- Ashton, Bodie A. "The Past is not a Straight Line", History Matters: History Brought Alive by the University of Sheffield (13 June 2017): http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/straight-line
Newspaper Contributions
- Ashton, Bodie A. "I’m Doing What the Australian Government Won’t — Telling the Truth about the Climate Crisis: Scott Morrison is dangerously downplaying the climate crisis – forcing people like me to tell the world the truth", The Independent (7 January 2020): https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/australia-wildfires-latest-climate-crisis-scott-morrison-twitter-a9274026.html
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Ashton, Bodie A. und Caroline Dodds Pennock. "Why We, As Academics, Created a Letter in Support of LGBT+ Rights: Our trans colleagues in higher education face constant fear of marginalisation. But many more of us support them. It’s time to confront the narrative", The Independent (23 June 2019): https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/transgender-lgbt-pride-letter-academics-transphobia-higher-education-a8971136.html