Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş | zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

Publications

Monograph

Verflochtene Nationsbildung. Die Neue Türkei und der Völkerbund, 1918-38 (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020)

Edited special issues and volumes

with Andreas Greiner, Mario Peters, and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.), Roads to Exclusion. Socio-spatial Dynamics of Mobility Infrastructures since the 19th Century, special issue, Journal of Transport History 45, no. 3 (2024).

with Simone Lässig, Anna-Carolin Augustin, and Swen Steinberg (eds.), Navigating In-Betweeness. Jewish Refugees in Global Transit, special section, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 69 (2024).

with Andreas Greiner, Mario Peters, and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.), Rethinking Crossborder Connections, special issue, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington 71 (2022).

with Benjamin Auberer and Timo Holste (eds.), Situating Internationalism 1919-1940s, special issue, New Global Studies 10, no. 3 (2016).

Book series

Transatlantische Historische Studien/Transatlantic Historical Studies, eds. Axel Jansen, Casey Sutcliffe, Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş, Mario Peters, Claudia Rösch (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag), from 2020 to 2024.

Journal articles and book chapters

"Emerging Turkey and the League of Nations: Nationalist Internationalism," in Hans-Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian (eds.), The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2025).

with Britta-Marie Schenk, "Exclusion/Inclusion," in Christopher Balme, Burcu Dogramaci and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.), Dis:connectivity and Globalisation: Concepts, Terms, Practices (De Gruyter, 2025), 121-128.

"Washington of the World, Vatican of the East. Imagining Istanbul in a New Global Order," in Laurence Badel, Axel Dröber and Eckart Conze (eds.), The Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The Challenge of a New World Order (Berghahn, 2024), 220-246.

with Nils Güttler, "Aviation Diplomacy und (un-)erwünschte Mobilität am Frankfurter Flughafen, 1945–1990er Jahre," Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 35, no. 2 (2024): 90-111, https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/9132

with Andreas Greiner, Mario Peters, and Roland Wenzlhuemer, "Roads to Exclusion: Introduction," Journal of Transport History 45, no. 3 (2024): 634-645.

"Exklusive Fluchtwege? Zur Flucht per Flugzeug und ihren sozioökonomischen Bedingungen vom Nationalsozialismus bis zur Asylmigration in die Bundesrepublik," Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 64 (2024): 65-84.

with Anna-Carolin Augustin, Epilogue: "Transit Materialities. Following Objects and Infrastructures," Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 69, no. 1 (2024): 133-141, https://academic.oup.com/leobaeck/advance-article/doi/10.1093/leobaeck/ybae007/7730170

"Mobilities and the History of Mobility," version 2, transl. Lee Holt, Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, October 18, 2024, https://docupedia.de/zg/liebisch_guemues_mobilities_v2_en_2024

"Im Drehkreuz. Konflikte um Asyl und Zurückweisungen am Frankfurter Flughafen (1980-1995)," Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 20, no. 1 (2023): 85-112, https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2023/6105

"Unlikely Internationalists: Ottoman-Turkish Views on the League of Nations during the Paris Peace Conference," in Albert Wu and Stephen W. Sawyer (eds.), The Making of a World Order: Global Historical Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles (Routledge, 2023): 100-121.

"Transitzone," in Inken Bartels, Isabella Löhr, Christiane Reinecke, Philipp Schäfer, Laura Stielike (eds.), Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe, July 5, 2023, http://www.migrationsbegriffe.de/transitzone

"Fiction and Filter: The Emergence of Airport Transit Zones in the Twentieth Century," in Marian Burchardt and Dirk van Laak (eds.), Making Spaces through Infrastructure: Visions, Technologies, and Tensions (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023): 169-192.

with Alp Yenen, "Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots. Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies 25, no. 2 (2023): 185-206, https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3486857

with Andreas Greiner and Mario Peters, "Introduction. Rethinking Crossborder Connections," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington 71 (2022): 3-11, https://www.ghi-dc.org/publication/bulletin-70-fall-2022

"Mobilität/en und Mobilitätsgeschichte," Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, March 22, 2022, https://docupedia.de/zg/Liebisch_Guemues_mobilitaet_v1_de_2022

"Nation und Globalgeschichtliche Narration," in Gabriele Lingelbach (ed.), Narrative und Darstellungsweisen der Globalgeschichte (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022): 83-100.

"Airborne Asylum. Migration by Airplane in (West) Germany, 1945-1980s," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington 68 (2021): 39-60, https://www.ghi-dc.org/publication/bulletin-68-spring-2021

"Vielflieger als Akteure der Versicherheitlichung. Das Fallbeispiel Hamburger Flughafen, 1970er bis 1990er Jahre," Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d‘histoire 3 (2020): 104-119, https://revue-traverse.ch/article/vielflieger-als-akteure-der-versicherheitlichung-das-fallbeispiel-hamburger-flughafen-1970er-bis-1990er-jahre/

"Embedded Turkification. Nation Building and Violence within the Framework of the League of Nations," International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 2 (2020): 229-244.

"Intersecting Asymmetries. Turkey’s Internationalization in the 1920s and the Limits of the Postcolonial Approach," AUC Studia Territorialia 19, no. 1 (2019): 13-41, https://stuter.fsv.cuni.cz/stuter/article/view/773

"Defending Turkey on Global Stages. The Young Turk Reşit Saffet’s Internationalist Strategy in 1919," New Global Studies 10, no. 3 (2016): 217-251

with Benjamin Auberer and Timo Holste, "Editors' Note. Situating Internationalism 1919-1940s," New Global Studies 10, no. 3 (2016): 201-216.

Reviews and reports

Review on Peter Adey, Evacuation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency (Duke University Press, 2024), Technology and Culture 66, no. 2 (2025): 584-585.

Review on Claas Henschel, Weltbildkonstruktion über den Wolken. "Inflight Magazines" als Quelle für historische Selbst- und Fremdbilder (Transcript, 2024), H-Soz-Kult, July 24, 2024, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-140824

with Leontien Potthoff: Conference Report: Everyday Histories of Airports, March 29-31, 2023, Vienna, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 72 (2023): 101-108, https://www.ghi-dc.org/publication/bulletin-72; German version in H-Soz-Kult, June 15, 2023, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-136801

Conference report: Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives, October 18-20, 2021, Berkeley (virtual), H-Soz-Kult, March 29, 2022, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-9399

Review on Katja Naumann, Laboratorien der Weltgeschichtsschreibung. Lehre und Forschung an den Universitäten Chicago, Columbia und Havard 1918 bis 1968 (V&R, 2018) H-Soz-Kult, February 23, 2021, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28391

Review on Stefan Rohdewald, Stephan Conermann and Albrecht Fuess (eds.), Transottomanica. Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken. Perspektiven und Forschungsstand (V&R, 2019), Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, March 27, 2020, www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-28974

Review on Matthias Middell (ed.), The Practice of Global History. European Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2019), Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 29, no. 6 (2019): 130-132.

Conference report: Narrative der Globalgeschichte, May 16-18, 2019 Munich, H-Soz-Kult, July 3, 2019, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8345

with Caroline Authaler and Danijel Ćubelić, review on exhibitions: Kolonialgeschichte als Herausforderung für deutsche Museen, schwarzweiss Blog, 2017, http://www.koloniale-spuren-heidelberg.de/kolonialgeschichte-als-herausforderung-fuer-deutsche-museen/

Review on Ulrich Niggemann, Hugenotten (UTB, 2011), Spektrum der Wissenschaft epoc 6 (2011): 91.

Vorträge

Recent talks include

Humanitarian Take-offs: The Emergence of Refugee Airlifts from the Post-war Years into the Cold War – Conference "Fragile Lifelines: Organized Refugee Transportation and Rescue Missions since the 1930s", ZZF Potsdam, November 7, 2025

Wie schreiben wir Migrationsgeschichte? Deutungsmacht und Partizipation in der historischen Wissensproduktion – panel at the Historikertag in Bonn, organized with Caroline Authaler and Lale Yildirim, September 17, 2025

Gemeinsamer Himmel, geteilte Welt: Flucht und Flüge über den Eisernen Vorhang (1950er-1970er) – Colloquium Zeitgeschichte, University of Tübingen, July 1, 2025

The Bundesgrenzschutz at Karachi Airport. The FRG and the Role of Global Airports in Europe's External Border Control – Online Colloquium Project C2, Collaborative Research Centre "Production of Migration," University of Osnabrück, June 15, 2025

Der Preis der Flucht. Asylmigration, Schwarzmärkte und Reiserouten in die Bundesrepublik (1970er bis 1990er Jahre) – Colloquium Neuere Forschungen zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, University of Göttingen, May 7, 2025

Von Koblenz nach Karatschi: Der Bundesgrenzschutz und der Aufbau eines transnationalen Migrationsregimes an Flughäfen in den 1980er/90er-Jahren – Colloquium Contemporary History, FU Berlin, January 9, 2025

Humanitarismus vs. technische Zusammenarbeit? Jet Age Refugees und die Etablierung eines globalen Flüchtlingsregimes in den 1980er Jahren – Colloquium Modern/Contemporary History, University of Münster, November 27, 2024

Warum nicht in die Freiheit fliegen? Eine Mobilitätsgeschichte von Flucht und Asyl im 20. Jahrhundert – presentation as part of the application process for a professorship at the University of Munich, October 31, 2023

Of Asylum Seekers, Streetworkers, Smugglers, and the State: A Social Close-up of Airport Waiting Zones in West Germany (1970s to 1990s) – virtual presentation at the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) Congress 2023, July 1, 2023

Hintertür zum Asyl oder Instrument der Einwanderungskontrolle? Asylmigration in der Transitzone des Frankfurter Flughafens, 1979-1993 – Colloquium Prof. Dagmar Ellerbrock, Technical University Dresden, April 19, 2023

Umstrittenes Asyl "an vorderster Front". Der Frankfurter Flughafensozialdienst und die bundesdeutsche Asyldebatte (1980-1993) – Conference "Alltagsgeschichten von Flughäfen", International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IfK) Vienna, March 30, 2023

Transit as Underground Infrastructure: Migrants and Asylum Seekers between Istanbul and Frankfurt, 1980s to mid-1990s – American Historical Association 136th Annual Meeting Philadelphia, January 5, 2023

Flight Routes to Asylum? Refugees from the Global South, Social Class, and the Changing Costs of Air Travel – online workshop "Fractured Skies: Civil Aviation and the Global South", June 29, 2022

"In jedem Hotel in Istanbul kann man Schlepper antreffen": Schwarzmarkt und Transitmigration, 1980er-1990er Jahre – virtual presentation in the colloquium at the History Department of the University of Lucerne, March 15, 2022

Gestrandet im Transit: Migration und Immobilität am Flughafen in Historischer Perspektive – workshop "Globale Infrastrukturen: In-/Exklusion, Dis:konnektivität", University of Munich, December 2, 2021

Nationalist internationalism. Revisiting Turkey’s entry into the League of Nations – talk in the lecture series "Turkey and Southeast Europe in the Interwar Period", University of Vienna, October 13, 2021

Migration Control at the Ticket Desk: Carriers, Black Markets, and Air Access to Europe in the 1980s/90s – virtual T2M Konferenz "Mobilities in Transition“, University Lisbon, November 3, 2021

Detention, Deportation, Contestation. Micropolitics of Forced Return at Frankfurt Airport in the 1980s and 1990s – virtual German Studies Association (GSA) Conference Indianapolis, October 3, 2021

Entangled Skies, Contested Grounds. The Jet Age in Global Studies – presentation as part of the application process for a junior professorship at the University of Leipzig, June 14, 2021 (secundo loco)

Asyl im Zwischenstopp. Flugrouten und Transitzonen in der deutschen Migrationsgeschichte – virtual presentation in a colloquium at the University of Freiburg, May 20, 2021

Turkish Nation Building through the Lens of the League of Nations – Konferenz "A Century of Internationalisms. The Promise and Legacies of the League of Nations", University of Lisbon, September 19, 2019

Pamphlet Wars for Asia Minor. Ottoman Activists, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Meaning of the Mandate System in Turkey – Konferenz "The Making of a World Order: A Reappraisal of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles", American University in Paris, May 24, 2019

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Lehre

University of Kiel

Asylpolitik und -debatten nach 1945 – online seminar, summer term, 2020

Flughäfen in der Globalgeschichte“ – online seminar, summer term, 2020

Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte im langen 19. Jahrhundert – seminar, winter term 2019/20

"Grabe, wo du stehst". NS-Erinnerungen in Familien nach 1945 – project class and excursion, with Dr. Britta-Marie Schenk, summer term 2019

Täter und Täterinnen des Holocaust: Einführung in die Täterforschung – seminar, summer term, 2019

Diderot in Istanbul lesen. Aufklärungsrezeption im Osmanischen Reich des 18./19. Jahrhunderts – course, summer term 2019

Warten und Weiterreisen. Transitorte in historischer Perspektive – seminar, summer term 2019

Kiel, Kamerun und zurück: Ein Projekt zur Digitalisierung kolonialer Reiseberichte – with Dr. Swantje Piotrowski, summer term 2019

Deutsche Migrationsgeschichte(n) nach 1945 – excursion, exhibit Meinwanderungsland, summer term 2019

Ideengeschichte des Rassismus – seminar, winter term 2018/19

Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Kolonien – seminar, winter term 2018/19

Theorien und Methoden der Globalgeschichte – methodology class, summer term 2018

Zwischen Furcht und Faszinosum. Osmanenbilder in Europa vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit – course with Rike Szill, summer term 2018

Humanitärer Internationalismus im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Rotkreuz- und Rothalbmond-Bewegung – seminar, summer term 2018

Hamburg als globale Hafenstadt im Kontext des deutschen Kolonialismus – seminar and excursion, summer term 2018

Kolonialgeschichtliche Spurensuche in Kiel – project class, winter term 2017/18

Das Auswärtige Amt, 1870-1999 – seminar, winter term 2017/18

Quellen zur Neuen Diplomatiegeschichte – course, winter term 2017/18

Eine universale Moral? Internationale Menschenrechtspolitik 1945-90 – seminar, summer term 2017

Das Jahrhundert der Völkermorde: Massengewalt im 20. Jahrhundert – seminar, summer term 2017

Deutschland und der Völkermord an den Armeniern von 1915 bis in die Gegenwart – seminar, winter term 2016/17

Bürokratisierte Weltordnung – internationalistische Utopie: Der Völkerbund, 1919-46 – seminar, winter term 2016/17

Bagdadbahn und Türkenfieber: Deutsch-osmanische Beziehungen vom 19. Jh. bis in den Ersten Weltkrieg – seminar, winter term 2016/17

University of Chicago, Department of History, College

The League of Nations and the Reordering of the Middle East – Course, Undergraduate Program International Studies, spring term 2015

University of Heidelberg, Department of History

Die Entstehung der modernen Türkei aus globalhistorischer Perspektive – winter term 2014/15

Current projects

Dr. Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş

Connected Skies, Contested Grounds: Air Travel and Refugee Movements in Twentieth Century Germany and Beyond