Christiane Reinecke

Christiane Reinecke is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. She concurrently serves as a seminar speaker at the Seminar for History and History Didactics and holds leadership roles at the Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies (ICES). Her academic career includes fellowships at Harvard University and the University of Paris, and she has held professorial roles at institutions such as the University of Leipzig and University of Hamburg. Reinecke’s research focuses on postcolonial European social history, migration control, urban marginality, and transnational methodologies. She is co-editor of Geschichte und Gesellschaft and Modere Stadtgeschichte, and leads the Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe digital platform.

Education:

• Habilitation (2019): University of Leipzig, Social and Cultural History
• PhD (2008): Humboldt University Berlin, Modern History
• MA (2001): University College London, Modern History

Research Interests:

Her work explores postcolonial urban dynamics, migration governance, and the historiography of social inequality. She examines how states and societies construct borders, regulate mobility, and produce knowledge about migration through interdisciplinary lenses. Recent projects include analyzing anti-discrimination policies in 20th-century Europe and tracing the evolution of EU’s internal/external border systems historically.

Grants & Projects:

• Leading the Unmaking Migrants? project (2024–2027), a SFB sub-project on EU border regimes
• Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship (2025), European University Institute
• Coordinator of the Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe online platform

Awards:

• 2021 Urban History Prize (Vienna) for her habilitation
• 2013 Hans Rosenberg Memorial Prize for her PhD