Personenprofil
Kurzprofil
My jump into the field of global studies began as a BA student at the pilot program at the University of California Santa Barbara. While I started off firmly in the social sciences, I became a historian over time, focusing on comparative and transregional perspectives. My first book traces the debates on free trade zones and special economic zones in Mumbai, India, from the 1830s until today. I do so to explored the ways that various elite actors try to connect the city to the world while also fostering national and regional integration. My second book project is concerned with Philadelphia as a border town in the Early Republic US, which focuses on the intersections of boundary production, mobility control, and refugees from 1780-1830. My main areas of interest include:
Global History
Border Studies since the 18th century
Free Ports and Special Economic Zones (19th–21st Centuries)
French and American Imperial Histories
Age of Revolutions
Migration and Refugee History
Berufliche Laufbahn
- seit 06/2022
Juniorprofessorin für Global Studies, Global and European Studies Institute, Universität Leipzig - 05/2021 - 06/2022
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Abteilung "Globale Mobilität vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert," im ERC Grant Projekt "Atlantic Exiles: Revolution and Refugees in the Atlantic World, 1780s–1820," Historisches Institute, Universität Duisburg-Essen - 02/2021 - 04/2021
Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Department of History - 03/2016 - 04/2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, SFB 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition,” Universität Leipzig - 03/2015 - 02/2016
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Centre for Area Studies, Universität Leipzig - 03/2012 - 02/2015
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Research Training Group (GK 1261), “Critical Junctures of Globalization,” Centre for Area Studies, Universität Leipzig
Ausbildung
- 03/2012 - 11/2016
Ph.D. summa cum laude Global Studies, Leipzig University - 10/2009 - 08/2011
M.A. Global Studies, Wrocław University and Leipzig University - 09/2005 - 06/2009
B.A. Global Studies and Italian Studies, University of California Santa Barbara - 09/2007 - 06/2008
International Relations, University of Padua (study abroad)
American Boundaries and Refugee Mobilities at the Heart of the Republic and the Edge of Empire (1780-1830)
This book investigates the role of Atlantic exile mobilities in the formation of the early American republic and how the transboundary movement of people fleeing revolution, warfare, and slavery contributed to both the production of boundaries as well as their shifting meaning in a transimperial context during the Age of Revolutions (1770s–1830s). How did the massive movements of refugees during the Age of Revolutions impact the delineations of mobilities and new meanings contemporaries attributed to boundaries?
To explore this question, I situate Philadelphia as a border town in four respects: as a city at the boundary of “free soil” in North America; as an international port city where refugees and migrants arrived; as a place from which arriving refugees planned borderland filibusters, settlement schemes, or Black emigration projects; and as the capital of the US (between 1790 and 1800) where international boundary lines were debated and negotiated. From Philadelphia, this book also looks at places along the US’s boundaries with Britain and Spain, where many exiles and mobile populations had also settled, to ask how shifting boundaries between empires impacted questions of status such as citizenship, freedom, and exile and conversely, how these questions impacted the changing placement and meaning of these boundaries.
- SFB 1199/B01: Neuverräumlichung der Welt in der Entstehungsphase der Global Condition 1820–1914: Die Amerikas und das französische EmpireMiddell, MatthiasLaufzeit: 01.2020 - 12.2023Mittelgeber: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftBeteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe); Global and European Studies Institute; SFB 1199: Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen
- Zwischen Reform des Empires und nationalstaatlicher Territorialisierung: Der transatlantische Revolutionszyklus 1770–1830Middell, MatthiasLaufzeit: 01.2016 - 12.2019Mittelgeber: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftBeteiligte Organisationseinheiten der UL: Centre for Area Studies; Global and European Studies Institute; SFB 1199: Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen
- Maruschke, M. M.; Covo, M.The French Revolution as an Imperial RevolutionFrench Historical Studies. 2021. 44 (3). S. 371-397
- Maruschke, M. M.The French Revolution and the New Spatial Format for EmpireFrench Historical Studies. 2021. 44 (3). S. 499-528
- Middell, M.; Maruschke, M. M. (Hrsg.)The French Revolution as a Moment of RespatializationBerlin, Boston: de Gruyter . 2019
- Maruschke, M. M.Portals of Globalization: Repositioning Mumbai’s Ports and Zones, 1833-2014Berlin: De Gruyter. 2019
- Maruschke, M. M.Zones of Reterritorialization: India’s Free Trade Zones in Comparative Perspective, 1947 to the 1980sJournal of Global History . 2017. 12 (3). S. 410-432
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The Early Age of Revolutions (1776-1804) in Global History and Global Studies
Winter 2019/2020
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Portals of Globalization: A Perspective in Global History
Winter 2018/2019; Winter 2017/2018
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Portals of Globalization: Histories of Places and People that Provincialize Europe
with Katja Naumann and Geert Castryck; Winter 2016/2017
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Portals of Globalization: Examples from India
Summer 2016
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Transregional Transport: Ports, Enclaves, and Trade Agreements
Winter School, 2015
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Entangled Spaces of the Global Economy: Export Processing Zones in Asia
Summer 2015; Winter 2014/2015; Summer 2014; Summer 2013