Thomas Lindner

Dr. Thomas Lindner serves as a Researcher at the Department of European and Modern History within the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Rostock since April 2021, working under Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Hirschhausen. His academic trajectory includes postdoctoral positions at the Free University of Berlin's Global History Chair (2020-21) funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development's Center for the History of Emotions (2019-20).

His research spans global and transnational history with emphases on imperialism/anti-imperialism, labor movements, migration, and sports history. Current work centers on Resistance and Recreation: A Global Social History of Worker Sport, 1880–1940, analyzing worker sports as resistance practices within global labor migration and class struggles across Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Durban.

Lindner's publications reveal consistent engagement with transnational anti-imperialist networks, particularly in 1920s Mexico City, while connecting sports history to broader discourses on capitalism, colonialism, and gendered bodies. His 2023 monograph A City Against Empire establishes him as a significant voice in global urban history.

• PhD: Technical University Berlin (2020), thesis on "Transnational Networks of Anti-Imperialism: Mexico City in the long 1920s"
• MA: Global History, Humboldt & Free Universities Berlin (2012-14)
• Visiting Scholar: University of Chicago (2017)

His methodological approach integrates urban history with global labor movements, demonstrating how worker sports served as political resistance beyond mere physical activity. Current research examines intersections of bodily practices with anti-colonial struggles and capitalist development.