Dr. Sina Steglich

Sina Steglich is assistant professor of modern and contemporary history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research interests include the history of temporalities, archival history, mobility and social integration with a focus on intellectual history and the history of knowledge from the late 18th century to the present. Conceptually, she works in particular on methodological-theoretical questions and the history of historiography. Together with Carlos Spoerhase, she is currently heading the CAS research focus “Scales” (2024–2026).

Project at CAS

During her stay at CAS, Sina Steglich will be working on her book project, which is dedicated to the problem of social cohesion in 20th-century Europe. She is examining the figure of the nomad as an example of how human sociability was discussed, reconfigured and plausibilised. This is based on the assumption that modernity defined itself through a territorially coded ideal of order and sought to follow the maxim of rationality. This nomos was challenged by pathologising and exoticising nomadism. Designed as a social history inspired by the history of ideas and knowledge, the project not only aims to contribute to the history of social cohesion under conditions of mobility but also conceptually to discuss the nomadic as a non-linear practice and form of knowledge in its wider significance for historiography as a linear discipline.