Rate My Professor Stefan Höhne

Dr. Stefan Höhne is a senior researcher at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI) Essen, an institute for advanced study in the humanities jointly operated by the universities of the University Alliance Ruhr, including Universität Duisburg-Essen. He received his PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from Technische Universität Berlin in April 2017, graduating summa cum laude with a dissertation titled 'Machinic Subjects – Metamorphoses of the Passenger in the New York City Subway (1904–1968).' His earlier education includes an M.A. in Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and Sociology earned between 2000 and 2007 at universities in Berlin, Leipzig, and Copenhagen. Höhne's career encompasses roles such as researcher and lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin (2013–2018); researcher and research fellow at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2011–2013); and lecturer and adviser at New York University Berlin and New York (2016–2018). He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University Department of History (2008–2009), visiting fellow at the University of Leipzig (2020), and researcher in residence at the Free City of Christiania, Denmark (2024). Since 2022, he has held a permanent senior researcher position at KWI, and since 2015, he has been a member of the editorial collective of the open-access journal sub\urban – zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.