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
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Research project
This project explores the development of communal identity and ties in (West) Germany’s transgender population in the period between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the eve of German Reunification.
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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