Sophie LangeWissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Contact
Sophie Lange
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
office: Am Neuen Markt 1, room 1.06
phone: 0331/28991-53
fax: 0331/28991-40
E-Mail: sophie.lange [at] zzf-potsdam.de
Twitter/X: @SophieLange20
Vita
since 1 October 2023
Research Associate at the ZZf Potsdam in Dep. V
Joint Project: "Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe" (funded by Volkswagen Foundation)
2021-2023
Research Associate at the University of Erfurt, Historical Seminar, Professorship of Global History
2021
Completion of the PhD at Humboldt University Berlin, "German-German Environmental Politics 1970-1990. An entangled History in the international and societal Kontext of the Cold War"
2019-2020
Fellow at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
2015-2020
Research assistant at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies
2018
Guide at the Memorial Site of the former Stasi-Prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
2015
Freelance Associate in the Green Memory Archive of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
2015
Master of Arts in History, Humboldt University of Berlin
2011-2015
Student Assistent in the Edition "Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (AAPD) und Research Assistant in the Project "Die Einheit. Das Auswärtige Amt, das Ministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten der DDR und der Zwei-Plus-Vier-Prozess", Leibnitz Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, Dep. Freign Office
Projects
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Joint project
with partners in Prague, Warsaw, Jena and Budapest and two part-projects in Potsdam
funded by the VW FoundationWith the support of a “...
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Post-doc project
The focus of the project analyzes historical roots of present day anti-liberal and illiberal ideas in the (East) German society.
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Publications
Chapters/Articles
Lange, Sophie: Berlin’s waste infrastructure as environmental doom or technological opportunity?, in: Moss, Timothy (Ed.): Ecologies of the Technopolis: Contested Environments and Infrastructures of Berlin, 1871-2021 (History of the Urban Environment), University of Pittsburgh Press (forthcoming 2023/24).
Schouwenburg, Hans/Lange, Sophie/Pan-Montojo, Juan/Janác, Jirí: Understanding and Controlling the Environment in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900), in: Hansen, Jan/ Jochen Hung, Jochen/Ira,Jaroslav/Klement, Judith/Lesage, Sylvain/Simal, Juan Luis/Tompkins, Andrew (Eds.): The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000, Openpublisher 2023, pp. 539–548, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323
Lange, Sophie/Pan-Montojo, Juan/Tompkins, Andrew/Janác, Jirí: Understanding and Controlling the Environment in Contemporary History (ca. 1900–2000), in: Hansen, Jan/ Jochen Hung, Jochen/Ira,Jaroslav/Klement, Judith/Lesage, Sylvain/Simal, Juan Luis/Tompkins, Andrew (Eds.): The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000, Openpub-lisher 2023, pp. 549–558, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323
Lange, Sophie: The Elbe: Or, How to Make Sense of a River?, In: “Storytelling and Environmental History: Experiences from Germany and Italy,” edited by Roberta Biasillo and Claudio de Majo, RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2 (2020), S. 25–31.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9122.
Lange, Sophie: A Deal over Dirt. From a German-German Bargain to the Creation of an Environmental Problem in the 1980s, in: Worldwide Waste. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 3(1): 1 (2020), Special Collection: Development of Waste – Development as Waste, S. 1–10, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/wwwj.35.
Conference Report
Lange, Sophie: Conference Report: Willy Brandt and the Americas, 1974–1992, translated by Sally Hudson, in: German Historical Bulletin Nr. 57 (Fall 2016), http://www.ghi-dc.org/events-conferences/event-history/2016/conferences/....