Nineteenth-Century Transnational History
After taking her degree in history and sociology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sandra Maß undertook doctoral studies at the European University Institute in Florence , completing them in 2004 with a thesis on the history of colonial masculinity in Germany (published 2006 by Böhlau).
During her time as a researcher in the History of the Political department at Bielefeld University , between 2004 and 2011, she worked on a study on monetary education in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (published November 2017), with which she gained her Habilitation in 2014.
In 2015, after a period deputising a professorship at the University of Cologne, she took up the position of deputy director at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, a post she held until 2017.
Since 2017 she is Professor of History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Transnational History 19th/20th C.
Global Family History
Gender History
Cultural History of Capitalism
Colonialism & Imperialism
"Werde ein guter Staatsbürger"(To become a good citizen). Zur Politisierung von Sparsamkeit im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 70, 2020, Nr. 48 ("Schwarze Null"), P. 25–33. Online at:https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/319067/schwarze-null
Teaching Capitalism. The Popularization of Economic Knowledge in Britain and Germany (1800-1850), in: Stefan Berger/Alexanda Przyrembel (eds.), Moralizing Capitalism. Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism in the Modern Age, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019, P. 29–57.
Kinderstube des Kapitalismus? Monetäre Erziehung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Raising capitalists? Monetary education in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) Munich: De Gruyter/Oldenbourg 2017 (Publications of the German Historical Institute London, Vol. 75).
Prof. Dr. Sandra Maß
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Faculty of History
Department of History
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
