Rate My Professor Daniel Brückenhaus

Daniel Brückenhaus is an Associate Professor of History at Beloit College, where he joined the faculty in 2012. He is a historian of Europe and the European colonial empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Born in Germany, Brückenhaus completed his undergraduate studies at Bielefeld University before pursuing graduate work in the United States. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2011 and spent the following year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. At Beloit College, he teaches a wide range of courses on European and imperial history from the late eighteenth century to the present, including Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Colonialism, Nazi Germany: History and Film, Europe and the Modern World, 1789-1945, Modern African History, Big Brother is Watching You: Europe in the Age of Government Surveillance, Worlds of Stone: Modern Urban History, History of Fascism, and History of Emotions in Modern Europe.

Brückenhaus's research interests focus on the history of global anti-imperialism, government surveillance, and emotions in the modern period. His monograph, Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905-1945, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017, with a paperback edition in 2020. Other key publications include Anticolonial Comedy: Humor among Vietnamese Activists in France, 1909-1923 in Yearbook of Transnational History (2021); British Passport Restrictions, the League Against Imperialism, and the Problem of Liberal Democracy in The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (2020); Challenging Imperialism Across Borders: Recent Studies of Twentieth-Century Internationalist Networks against Empire in Contemporary European History (2020); Identifying Colonial Subjects: Fingerprinting in British Kenya, 1900-1960 in Geschichte und Gesellschaft (2016); and contributions to Learning How to Feel: Children’s Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2018, he received an ACLS Fellowship for his current book project, Laughing at Imperialism: Ridicule and Satire as Anticolonial Strategies, 1880-1970, which explores the use of humor by anticolonial leaders and activists against British, French, and German empires.