Dr. Avi Sharma
| Einrichtung | Center for Metropolitan Studies |
|---|---|
| Gebäude | HBS |
| Raum | HBS 115 |
| Adresse | Hardenbergstraße 16-18 10623 Berlin |
Lebenslauf
| seit 2019 | DFG Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS), Technical University Berlin |
| 2016-2018 | BMBF Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS), Technical University Berlin |
| 2014 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies, Berlin |
| 2009-2013 | Earl S. Johnson Senior Lecturer, Department of History and the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), University of Chicago |
| 2009 | Ph.D, University of Chicago, History |
| 2007-2009 | Preceptor, Department of History and the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), University of Chicago |
| 2003-2006 | Lecturer, University of Chicago |
| 2000 | M.A., University of Chicago, Social Science (MAPSS) |
| 1997 | B.A., Reed College, History |
Förderungen
| 2022 | Seed Funding for Global South Cooperations: TU Berlin & Autonomous University of Mexico - Cuajimalpa (matching). "Repurposing Existing Urban Assets: Sustainable and Cost-Effective Strategies to Address Vulnerability in Mexico City and New Delhi" (Declined) |
| 2021 | Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies - War and Society Research Group |
| since 2019 | German Research Council Research Fellow (Urban Environments) |
| 2016-2018 | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Research Fellow |
| 2009-2012 | Earl S. Johnson Fellowship |
| 2007 | Freehling Travel Award |
| 2007 | Eric Cochrane, Research Travel Grant |
| 2005-2006 | Fulbright Research Residence Extension |
| 2004-2005 | Fulbright Fellowship for Dissertation Research |
| 2002 | Kunstadter Research Fellowship for Dissertation Research |
| 2000-2004 | University of Chicago University Fellowship |
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Global, Urban and Environmental History
- Migration and Forced Migration
- Informal Settlement
Publikationen
Bücher
2020
Urban Resilience in Global Context. Actors, Agendas and Narratives.
Bielefeld: Transcript (With Dorothee Brantz) Open Access
2014
We Lived for the Body: Natural Medicine and Public Health in Imperial Germany.
Dekalb, IL: NIU Press.
Artikel
2021
Migration, Identity, and Everyday Urbanism: Negotiating Space and Place in the City. Journal of Urban History. Vol. 47(4): 899-906.
2021
The City Under Stress: Waking to a Multispecies Urban. In Eveline Dürr and Regine Keller, Urban Environments as Spaces of Living in Transformation. RCC Urban Environments Initiative.
2020
Before Resilience: Surviving in Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950. In Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma (eds.) Urban Resilience. Historical and Contemporary Practices in a Global Context. Bielefeld: Transcript (Forthcoming)
2019
Mass Displacement in Post-Catastrophic Societies. Vulnerability, Learning, and Adaptation in Germany and India, 1945-52. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Vol. 64: 1-35.
2018
Green Cities. A Dialogue. Written with Dorothee Brantz. Transformations in Environment and Society, Vol. 1: 15-25.
2017
Susan Cayleff: Nature's Path. A history of Naturopathic Healing in America. Isis. A Journal of the History of Science Society, Vol. 108: 728-9.
2015
Who Leads in a G-O World? Multi-Nationals, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Changing Global Order. Washington International Law Journal, Vol. 24: 589-612.
2012
Wilhelmine Nature: Natural Lifestyle and Practical Politics in the German Life-Reform Movement, (1890-1914). Social History, Vol. 37: 36-54.
2012
Rethinking Asymmetries in the Marketplace: Medical Pluralism in Germany, 1869-1910. In Martin Dinges (ed.) Medical Pluralism in Comparative Perspective: India and Germany, 1800-2000. Stuttgart: Robert Bosch, 71-84.
2011
Medicine from the Margins? Naturheilkunde from Medical Heterodoxy to the University of Berlin, 1889-1921. Social History of Medicine, Vol. 24: 334-351.
2011
On the Anti-Politics of Health: Conflict, Consensus and Hygiene Reform in Germany, 1871-1914. Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 10: 83-96.
Präsentationen (Auswahl)
2022
Refugee Urbanisms. The Presence of the Past in Unstable Urban Orders. Presented at Conference “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities”. Harnack House (Berlin), March 4.
2022
Slow Violence and the Study of War and Society. Reflections on the Future of (peace and) Violence Studies. Presented at the NIOD War and Society Conference (Amsterdam), June 29
2021
"We Refugees." On the Vulnerability of Citizenship in India (and Elsewhere). Presented at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (Amsterdam), May 11.
2019
Forced Migration, Survival, and the State. Cases from Germany and South Asia, 1945-1955. Presented at the IGK Colloquium, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, May 16.
2018
Shock Migration and the Transformation of the Urban: Planning and Political Contestation in Postwar Berlin. Presented at the IGK Colloquium, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, October 24.
2018
Migrant Epistemologies in Unstable Times. Mass Displacement, Identity and Exclusion in Berlin and Amritsar, ca. 1945-52. Presented at the German Historical Institute (GHI) West, Berkeley, CA, October 18.
2018
Commentator for World of Slums? International Development and the Politics of Housing, 1950s to 1960s as part of Transforming Cities: Urbanization and International Development Policies in the Global South in the Twentieth Century, German Research Foundation (DFG) and Free University of Berlin, Berlin, October 11.
2018
Mass Displacement and Urban Transformation in Berlin and Amritsar, 1945-1952. Presented at the IGK Colloquium, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, June 5.
2018
Does Financial Stress cause Xenophobia? Urban Histories of Exclusion and Marginalization. Presented at Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, March 27.
2017
Strangers and Survival: Rebuilding Postwar Berlin, 1945-52. Presented at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. May 19.
2016
Displaced Persons in Post-War Berlin. Conflict and Collaboration in Times of Scarcity. Presented at the Berlin-Istanbul Lecture Series: Urban Space and Refugees, Berlin, November 25.
2016
On the Afterlives of Destruction: Rubble and Resilience in Postwar Berlin