Kerrin Langer

Kerrin Langer is a Research Associate at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Sociology, affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center 1288 (Practices of Comparison). She holds a teaching assignment in the field of politics and society for the winter semester 2025/26. Her academic background includes a Master’s degree in European Modernism: History and Literature (FernUniversität Hagen, 2017) and a Bachelor’s degree in History (University of Augsburg, 2012).

• Education:
  • Master’s (2014–2017): European Modernism: History and Literature, FernUniversität Hagen
  • Bachelor’s (2009–2012): History, University of Augsburg

Research Interests:

• Fleet Comparisons (19th–20th centuries)
• Naval History (up to 1918)
• Armament Dynamics and Disarmament (until 1939)
• Historical Political Research