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Alexander van Wickeren

Dr. phil.
Faculty of Cultural Sciences

Cologne International School of Design

Technische Hochschule Köln
Mailing address


  • Phone: +49 221-8275-5368

Positions

  • Scientific Direction DFG-Research Impulse "Cultural Memory in Crisis"

Research fields

  • History of commodities and capitalism
  • Global and colonial history of Europe
  • Memory culture
  • History of knowledge

Book

  • Wissensräume im Wandel. Eine Geschichte der deutsch-französischen Tabakforschung (1780-1870)
    Alexander van Wickeren, 2020, Publisher: Böhlau Verlag
    Wissensräume im Wandel

Selected volume

  • Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780-1960: Trade, Knowledge, and Labour
    Alexander van Wickeren, Jean Stubbs und William G. Clarence-Smith, 2024, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
    Tobacco in Global Perspective

Book chapter

  • Introduction: Tobacco’s Second Globalisation (peer reviewed)
    Alexander van Wickeren, Jean Stubbs, and William G. Clarence-Smith, 2024, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Reihe: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
    Tobacco’s Second Globalisation
  • Regional Knowledge in the Empire: Tobacco Cultivation during the Napoleonic Era (peer-reviewed)
    Alexander van Wickeren, 2023, Publisher: Routledge (Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000)
    Regional Knowledge in the Empire
  • The Transformation of an Ecological Policy. Acclimatization of Cuban Tobacco Varieties and Public Scandalization in the French Empire, c. 1860-1880 (peer-reviewed)
    Alexander van Wickeren, 2020, Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
    Transformation of an Ecological Policy.
  • Territorializing Atlantic Knowledge: The French State Tobacco Monopoly and the Globalization of the Havana Cigar around Mid-19th Century
    Alexander van Wickeren, 2019, Publisher: De Guyter
    Territorializing Atlantic Knowledge
  • Die Zirkulation staatsrelevanten Wissens (savoir d'État) über den Tabakanbau in Baden und im Elsass um 1800
    Alexander van Wickeren, 2012
    Zirkulation staatsrelevanten Wissens
  • Towards a Culture of Smoking: Consumption during Tobacco’s Second Globalization, 1780–1960 (in preparation)
    Alexander van Wickeren
  • Bourbonising the French Empire? Humboldt, Bonpland and the Global Commercialisation of Tobacco Cultivation in the early 19th Century (in preparation, peer-reviewed)
    Alexander van Wickeren

Special Issue / Journal

  • Spaces – Objects – Knowledge. An Integrative Perspective on Recent Turns in Historical Research
    Pascal Schillings und Alexander van Wickeren, 2015
    Spaces – Objects – Knowledge

Journal article

  • Cigarette Crisis: Globalisation, Right-wing Politics and Governmental Downplay in the early Weimar Republic (in peer review)
    Alexander van Wickeren
  • Towards a Material and Spatial History of Knowledge Production. An Introduction
    Pascal Schillings und Alexander van Wickeren, 2015
    Material and Spatial History of Knowledge Production
  • Career Cluster Participatory Memory: Critical Perspectives & Practices, TH Köln
  • British Academy Research Project Commodities of Empire
    Commodities of Empire
Since April 2026 Scientific Direction, DFG-Research Impulse "Cultural Memory in Crisis", Faculty of Cultural Sciences,TH Köln
April 2022 to March 2026 Scientific Coordinator Research, Faculties for Architektur and Cultural Sciences, TH Köln
October 2017 to March 2022 Research Assistant, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, University of Cologne

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