Nina Kleinöder

JProf. Dr. Nina Kleinöder is an Assistant Professor at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg's Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies. Her research bridges economic and social history with global and colonial perspectives, focusing on industrial relations, labor history, and workplace safety evolution.

• Current projects examine colonial railway building from business historical angles
• Coordinator of the DFG-funded '(Post-)Colonial Business History (PCBH)' network
• Contributor to Hans-Böckler-Stiftung's 'Humanization of Working Life' initiative

Her work on business history security includes analyzing corporate risk negotiation from the Weimar Republic to modern times, with special attention to steel industry safety media (1920s-1970s) and postcolonial economic legacies. Articles span 20th-century labor rationalization, railway construction geopolitics, and safety securitization beyond nation-state frameworks.

Scientific recognition includes:

• drupa Prize 2015 for occupational safety dissertation
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation funding

She supervises university theses while coordinating international research collaborations with Brazilian academics (Instituto Federal do Paraná) and European institutions through the DFG's 'Dynamics of Security' research center. Teaching includes courses on economic history, colonial economies, and rationalization's impact on labor.