Dr. Maren Möhring

CV
Born 1970, 1998 M.A. in History and German Literature at the University of Hamburg; 2001-2010 Lecturer of Modern History, Dept. of History, University of Cologne; 2002 Dr. phil. in History at the University of Munich; 1998-2001    DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Geschlechterdifferenz & Literatur”, University of Munich; 2007 National Endowment for the Humanities / German Historical Institute fellowship, GHI Washington, D.C.; 2007 Gerald D. Feldman travel grant, GHI London; 2007-2009 Feodor Lynen research grant, Forschungsstelle für Sozial-und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, University of Zurich; 2008 Gerald D. Feldman travel grant, GHI Rome; 2008 Gerald D. Feldman travel grant, Orient Institute Istanbul; 2010 “Habilitation” at the University of Cologne;
since 2010 FRIAS junior fellowship

PUBLICATIONS
Books, Proceedings, Editions, and Articles (10 selected)
- Marmorleiber. Körperbildung in der deutschen Nacktkultur (1890-1930). Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2004.
- Ausländische Gastronomie. Migrantische Unternehmensgründungen, neue Konsumorte und die Internationalisierung der Ernährung in der Bundesrepublik, unpubl. Habilitationsschrift, Universität zu Köln, 2010.
- Ernährung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung = Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 17/3 (2007), co-ed. with Alexander Nützenadel.
- Tiere im Film. Eine Menschheitsgeschichte der Moderne, Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2009, co-ed. with Massimo Perinelli und Olaf Stieglitz.
- Public Eating, Public Drinking. Places of Consumption from Early Modern to Postmodern Times = Food & History 7/2 (2009), co-ed. with Marc Forster.
- „Nacktheit und Sichtbarkeit“. In: Martschukat, Jürgen (Hg.): Geschichte schreiben mit Foucault, Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2002, S. 151-169.
- „Working Girl Not Working. Liebe, Freizeit und Konsum in Italienfilmen der frühen Bundesrepublik“. In: Biebl, Sabine/Volkening, Heide (Hg.): Working Girls. Zur Ökonomie von Liebe und Arbeit, Berlin: Kadmos, 2007, S. 249-274.
- „Transnational Food Migration and the Internationalization of Food Consumption: Ethnic Cuisine in West Germany“. In: Nützenadel, Alexander/Trentmann, Frank (Hg.): Food and Globalization. Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World, Oxford/New York: Berg, 2008, S. 129-150.
= Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History 2007
- (with Pascal Eitler) „Eine Tiergeschichte der Moderne – theoretische Perspektiven“. In: traverse 15/3 (2008), S. 91-106.
- „Ethnizität und Konsum“. In: Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard/Torp, Cornelius (Hg.): Die Konsumgesellschaft in Deutschland 1890-1990. Ein Handbuch. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2009, S. 172-189.

FRIAS research project
“Ethnic restaurants in West Germany”
Combining research on migration to West Germany and on post-war consumerism, I am particularly interested in transnational food migration and its impact on (re-)defining ethnic identities. My attempt to empirically test some of the theoretical claims of transnational and transcultural research is guided by the historical interest in the ways cultural differences have been re-articulated in Germany after 1945. What does the consumption of “foreign” food mean in the context of reconfiguring German society and its relation to “the other” after the experiences of National Socialism and the Second World War? Although in this respect the German case might be specific, the spread of ethnic food in the FRG is part of an international trend in Western consumer societies. Therefore, the ethnic restaurant in Germany – in itself a transnational place – will be contextualized by comparisons with ethnic restaurants in other Western countries, especially the U.S. and the U.K., but also with the GDR, and thus with different cultures of consumption.