Profile
Abstract
Paul Skäbe is a Historian and research associate at the interdisciplinary Leipzig Lab "Global Health" in the project "Pandemic Space: Understanding Quarantine and Responsibilization in Times of Corona" and is associated with the ReCentGlobe.
He is currently working on his dissertation on "Segregation, Quarantine, Responsibilization: The African American Experience during the 1918-20 Great Influenza Pandemic." This project focuses on the intersection of quarantine practices, discourses of responsibilization, and racialized spatial segregation in the early 20th century United States.
His primary research interests are in North American history, specifically Black history, knowledge and cultural history, social history, and spatial history with a specific focus on urban contexts.
Professional career
- since 03/2022
Research Fellow, Leipzig Lab "Global Health", DFG-funded Project: "Pandemic Space: Understanding Quarantine and Responsibilization in Times of Corona" - 11/2018 - 07/2019
Tutor (History Department, University of Erfurt): Integrated Proseminar "Conflicts in History" (Introductory Course, History) - 09/2018 - 11/2018
Junior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC; supported by a Promos-Grant of the DAAD - 10/2017 - 02/2022
Research Assistant at the University of Erfurt: Research Centre Gotha (10/2017-07/2018); Chair of North American History (11/2017-02/2022); Research Project "Mapping the Seas" (11/2018-07/2021); Chair for Global History of the 19th Century (01/2020-09/2021)
Education
- since 03/2022
Dissertation: "Segregation, Quarantine, Responsibilization: The African American Experience during the 1918-20 Great Influenza Pandemic." - 08/2021 - 12/2021
Graduate student (History) at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; funded by a DAAD-grant for international exchange - 10/2019 - 01/2022
MA (University of Leipzig): Transcultural History - 10/2014 - 11/2019
Bachelor of Arts (University of Erfurt): History (Major) & International Relations (Minor)