2006 PhD at University of Kiel, 2016 Habilitation at University of Mainz. Since 2014 research staff member at the Federal Institute for the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) in Oldenburg.
Research Fields:
migration history, urban history and social space, history of science, history of the German “Ostforschung”, history and theory of biography
Publications:
An den Rändern der Stadt? Soziale Räume der Armen in einer Metropole der Moderne St. Petersburg (1850-1914) (Habilitationsschrift, erscheint 2018).
Petersen, Hans-Christian (Hg.): Spaces of the Poor. Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants, Bielefeld 2013.
Conrad, Benjamin / Bicknell, Lisa / Petersen, Hans-Christian (Hg.): Kommunikation über Grenzen. Polen als Schauplatz transnationaler Akteure von den Teilungen bis heute, Berlin 2013.
Salzborn, Samuel / Petersen, Hans-Christian (Hg.): Antisemitism in Eastern Europe – History and Present in Comparison, Frankfurt/M., [u.a.] 2010.
Bevölkerungsökonomie – Ostforschung – Politik. Eine biographische Studie zu Peter-Heinz Seraphim (1902-1979), Osnabrück 2007.