{"id":1683,"date":"2019-04-12T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturwissenschaften.de\/person\/stefan-hoehne\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:52:12","slug":"stefan-hoehne","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/stefan-hoehne\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stefan H\u00f6hne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a cultural historian and theorist, with a focus on science & technology studies, critical urban history, and spatial theory. In my research, I explore the empirical as well as conceptual relations of urbanization, technology and everyday life in the 20th and 21st century. Often mobilizing a transatlantic perspective, my work has contributed insights into new materialities and infrastructures in social and cultural history and theory.<\/p>\n

I have been trained mostly in interdisciplinary academic environments in Europe and the US and received my PhD in 2008 for a dissertation on the history of New York\u2019s subway passenger culture<\/a>. Before becoming a senior researcher at KWI in 2022, I have held positions as a lecturer and researcher at Humboldt University, Technical University Berlin, and\u00a0 New York University. I have also been a Mercator fellow at KWI, a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York and a reseacher-in-residence at the Freetown of Christiania, Copenhagen. From 2019 to 2022, I led the international research project Governing the Narcotic City. Imaginaries, Practices and Discourses of Public Drug Cultures in European Cities from 1970 until today. <\/a>(HERA, EU- Horizon 2020).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For nearly a decade, I am developing empirical and conceptual work on the role of cooling and climate control in modern cultures and how these technologies have drastically restructured life both on a biological and social level. Since September 2024, I am Principal Investigator in the ERC Synergy Grant Project Cultures of the Cryosphere. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling. <\/em>My research also focuses on the social and cultural histories of pharmaceuticals and narcotics.<\/p>\n

Since 2015, I am also part of the editorial collective of sub\\urban \u2013 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr kritische Stadtforschung<\/a>, a pioneering open access journal of German urban studies. I have also worked to develop historical databases, such as the Narcotic City Archive<\/a> \u2013 the first open access archive preserving the narcotic heritage of European cities and beyond.<\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Modern and Contemporary History, Science & Technology Studies, Critical Urban History, Social and Cultural Theory of the 20th<\/sup> and 21st<\/sup> Century, Digital Publication formats<\/p>\n

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Selected English Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Narcotic Cities: Counter-Cartographies of Drugs and Spaces <\/em>(co-edited with M\u00e9lina Germes und Luise Klaus), Berlin: Jovis\/De Gruyter,2023.<\/p>\n

Cities of Cool Comfort: Cryogenic Urbanization in the 20th Century in the Rise of Wellbeing Regimes<\/em>, in: Joseph Heathcott, Jonathan Soffer, Rae Zimmerman (Hrsg.): Urban Infrastructure – Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World, Pittsburgh University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n

Riding the New York Subway \u2013 The Invention of the Modern Passenger, <\/em>Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, <\/em>2021.<\/p>\n

Beyond American Dystopia: On the Rise of Apocalyptic Visions in the Contemporary United States, in: Amerikastudien \/American Studies<\/em>, Bd. 66, S. 271-77, 2021.<\/p>\n

Regimes of Freshness – Biopolitics in the Age of Cryogenic Culture [with Alexander Friedrich]. In: Medicine, Anthropology and Theory<\/em>, 3, no. 3:112-154, 2017.<\/p>\n

Marian Burchardt, Stefan H\u00f6hne and AbdouMaliq Simone (eds.): The Infrastructures of Diversity: Materiality and Culture in Urban Space.<\/em> New Diversities 17(2), 2015.<\/p>\n

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