Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Geschichte Westeuropas und transatl. Beziehungen

Jan Hansen is currently on leave from HU Berlin. He is DAAD Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Bio

Jan Hansen is a historian of the United States and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular interest in social, political, urban, environmental, and technological history. He is currently completing a book manuscript exploring the role of infrastructure in conceptions of social order after 1850. Previously, he has written on the history of the Cold War, specifically on anti-nuclear protests in West Germany in the 1980s. Jan Hansen has been an Assistant Professor of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2014. He also serves as a book review editor for H-Soz-Kult.

Education

• Dr. phil., History, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2014
• M.A., History and Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2009

Academic Appointments

• DAAD Associate Professor at the University of California San Diego, CA, 2023–
• Feodor Lynen Fellow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2021–23
• Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, 2019–20
• Fellow in the History of the Americas, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2017–8
• Book Review Editor, H-Soz-Kult, 2017–
• Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of History, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2015–
• Visiting Professor, Institute for European Studies, Free University Brussels, 2015
• Lecturer, Department of History, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2013–5

Research Interests

• Europe and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries
• History of Infrastructure
• Urban Environmental History
• Historical Peace Research
• History of the Cold War
• Labor History, History of Social Movements

Select Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-2989

• Hansen, J. (2023), The Zanjas Through Different Political Regimes: Infrastructure, Space, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles. In: Making Space through Infrastructures: Visions, Technologies and Tensions, Eds. Burchardt, M., van Laak, D. (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter), 111-131.
• Hansen, J., Hung, J., Ira, J., Klement, J., Lesage, S., Simal J.L., Tompkins, A., Eds. (2023): The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers.
• Gerster, D., Hansen, J., Schregel, S., Eds. (2023): Historische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Die Quadratur des Kreises? [Historical Peace and Conflict Studies: Squaring the Circle?]. Frankfurt: Campus.
• Hansen, J., Mengelkamp, L. (2022): Soldaten gegen die Nachrüstung. Militär und Gesellschaft in den 1980er Jahren. In: Deutsche Militärgeschichte in Europa 1945 bis 1990. Repräsentation, Organisation und Tradition von Streitkräften in Demokratie und Diktatur, Eds. Echternkamp, J., Nübel, Ch. (Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag), 229-262.
• Hansen, J., Schulze, F. (2021): Toward a Material History of Infrastructure. In: ICON. Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 26:1, 67-89.

• Hansen, J. (2021): Electricity and the changing contours of masculinity in Los Angeles, 1900–1930. In: Journal of Energy History/Revue d'Histoire de l'Énergie 6 [Online].

• Hansen, J. (2020): Water Infrastructure and Practical Knowledge in Progressive-Era Los Angeles. In: Southern California Quarterly 102:4, 385–419.

• Hansen, J. (2020): Excavating Urban Democracy: Water Infrastructure and the Public Realm in Los Angeles, circa 1870-1890. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 65:2, 151-170.

• Hansen, J. (2020): Wasser und Strom: Plädoyer für einen volumetrischen Urbanismus. In: Traverse 2 (2020), 71-82.
• Hansen, J. (2019): Das Steuern und Regeln von Infrastrukturen und der Wasseralltag in Los Angeles (1870-1920). In: Technikgeschichte 86:1, 33-66.
• Hansen, J. (2018): Shaping the Modern Body: Water Infrastructure in Los Angeles (1870-1920). In: Body Politics 6:9, 47-70.
• Hansen, J. (2016): Abschied vom Kalten Krieg? Die Sozialdemokraten und der Nachrüstungsstreit (1977-1987). Berlin. de Gruyter Oldenbourg.