Theresa Stankoweit, M.A.
Photo: P. Feuerböther
Research Associate
ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020 "Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt"
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- The political dimensions of visual culture in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Animal imagery around 1900
- Popular image media around 1900
- Visual culture studies
- Cultural heritage, Difficult Heritage
Subproject 5: Difficult Heritage and the Role of Nature. Nazi-Era Landscape Design in Post-War Germany
Vita
After earning an Abitur, attended the Leibniz Kolleg in Tübingen. Bachelor’s program in art history, history, politics, and musicology at the Technische Universität Dresden and the Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands). Master’s studies in art history at the Universität Hamburg; 2014: MA with the study “Geschichtsbild und Wahrnehmungsprozesse in Yadegar Asisis Panorama ‘Leipzig 1813 – In den Wirren der Völkerschlacht’” (“Historical Imagery and Perceptual Processes in Yadegar Asisi’s Panorama ‘Leipzig 1813 - Amidst the Confusion of the Battle of Nations’”), singled out as the best thesis project of the year by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Department of Art History at the Universität Hamburg.
2014-2018: research associate with the Department of Art History at the Universität Hamburg. 2018-2022: doctoral fellowship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.; dissertation entitled “Das Habitat-Diorama um 1900. Medialer Eigensinn und politische Raumkonstruktionen im Naturkundemuseum” (The Habitat Diorama around 1900: Medial Obstinacy and Political Constructions of Space in Museums of Natural History”) (forthcoming from de Gruyter, 2024).
Since April 2023: research associate with Prof. Dr. Margit Kern with the research project “Visual Scepticism: Towards an Aesthetics of Doubt” (ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020).