Contact
University of Erfurt - PhilFak - History Department
Nordhaeuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
Germany
ABOUT
Mara Albrecht, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History at University of Erfurt, Germany. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 at University of Erfurt. Her Ph.D. thesis, titled “War of symbols. Political parties and political culture in Lebanon” (in German) is concerned with the political narratives as well as the symbolic forms and practices relevant for the creation of political culture in contemporary Lebanon. Currently, she works on her habilitation project, titled “The riots in Belfast and Jerusalem: A spatiotemporal perspective on urban violence and policing in the British Empire”. Her research interests include the modern history of Lebanon, the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Irish history, the history of the Middle East mandates, political cultures in the Middle East, nationalisms in the Middle East, memory and identity studies, urban violence research, imperial/colonial history, spatial history, transnational/translocal/entangled history.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Middle East/Near East Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Conflict Resolution
Identity/Representation
Cultural Studies
Transnationalism
Nationalism
Urban Studies
Colonialism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Fertile Crescent
Israel
Palestine
Europe
Specialties
Collective Memory And Identity Of Political Groups
Political Parties And Political Culture In Lebanon
Urban Violence In The British Empire
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| History
| University of Erfurt
MA
| 2007
| History
| University of Hamburg
Abstracts
Civil Administrations in the Lebanese Civil War: A Comparison of the Highly Institutionalized Orders of Violence Created by the Progressive Socialist Party and the Kataeb (Phalange) Party
Competing Claims to the Homeland: Contentious Performances and Urban Violence in the Public Space of Early British Mandate Jerusalem
