Prof. Dr. Anne Kwaschik

Short-CV

Anne Kwaschik is a professor of Modern History with a focus on the history of knowledge at the University of Konstanz since 2017. Since 2022 she is a Principal Investigator of the Centre for Human | Data | Society. She holds a master’s degree in History, Philosophy and Modern German Literature and a PhD in History of the Freie Universität Berlin (thesis: In search of german mentality. The Life and Writings of the Franco-German Intellectual Robert Minder). In 2016, she habilitated on a thesis in History (thesis: Sinews of Empire. Concepts of Area Studies in the 19th and 20th Centuries). She is President of the Franco-German Historian’s Committee (DFHK) a member of the International Advisory Board of the Lund Center for the History of Knowledge (LUCK, Lund/Sweden) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies Lyon (Collegium de Lyon). As a cultural historian of knowledge her research areas include histories of Data, Data Knowledge Production and especially Cultural Perspectives on Human Data Society. She focuses on Data Histories investigating the collection, organization and evaluation of data (in particular in colonial contexts) and asking about continuities in non-digital and digital context. She explores the algorithmic complexity of data in an historical perspective.

Research-related publications

  • Kwaschik, Anne. (2022) ‘„Scientific Colonialism“: Zum konstitutiven Zusammenhang von Wissen und „colonial governance“’, in Schuppert, G. F.; Römhildt, R.; Weingart, P. (ed.) Herrschaft und Wissen: Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Wissensgesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 115-141.
  • Kwaschik, Anne. (2020) ‘Die Verwissenschaftlichung des Kolonialen als kultureller Code und internationale Praxis um 1900’. Historische Anthropologie 28(3), 399–423.
  • Kwaschik, Anne. (2018) Der Griff nach dem Weltwissen: Zur Genealogie von Area Studies im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Kritische Studien für Geschichtswissenschaft, Volume 229). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Kwaschik Anne. (2017a) ‘Gesellschaftswissen als Zukunftshandeln: Soziale Epistemologie, genossenschaftliche Lebensform und kommunale Praxis im frühen 19. Jahrhundert’. Francia 44, 189–211.
  • Kwaschik, Anne. (2017b) ‘„Planification souple“: Clemens Heller et le management de projets à la VIᵉ section’, in Bruhns H., Nettelbeck J. and Aymard M. (eds) Clemens Heller: Imprésario des sciences humaines. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme, 127–39.
  • Kwaschik, Anne ; Defrance, Corine (eds.). (2016) La guerre froide et l'internationalisation des sciences: Acteurs, réseaux et institutions (collection alpha). Paris: CNRS éditions.