About - Dr. Christin Hansen

Since October 2025, I have been a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History at the University of Trier. Prior to that, from 2021 to 2025, I was employed as part of the academic staff in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Paderborn. I am currently working on my postdoctoral research project under the working title “International Participation of Women in the Spanish Civil War: Concepts and Practices of Female Participation in the Interwar Period”. In this context, I am particularly interested in the tension between voluntary military service and gender, using the Spanish Civil War as a case study.

In my research and teaching, I focus on cultural-historical themes in the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on questions relating to colonial discourses, national movements, war and gender, as well as research into historical stereotypes.

Since 10/2025: Academic staff at the Chair of Modern History

10/2021 – 09/2025: Academic staff in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Paderborn

01/04/2025 – 31/05/2025: Fellowship at the GHI London

1 July 2023 – 30 September 2023: Fellowship at the GHI in Washington

January 2017 – September 2021: Academic staff at the Chair of European History (19th and 20th Centuries) at the University of Regensburg

July 2020: PhD at the University of Regensburg

October 2010 – March 2016: Studied History and German Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the University of Wrocław