Short Profile

I am an educational scientist specializing in historical topics and postcolonial approaches. As a historical education researcher, I conduct research on modern colonialism and constructions of difference in educational texts. My current research includes studies on 17th-century family correspondence, media frames in the context of flight, childhood, and school in the postwar period, as well as cultures of remembrance. I also work on migration and inequality (gender, class, race/ethnicity). I incorporate intersectional and postcolonial approaches into my teaching, as well as my expertise in the field of anti-racist education. I am a qualified anti-bias trainer and, during my time at the University of Hamburg, I completed further training in DiCoT (Diversity Contexts in Teacher Education) (URL: www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/en/internationales/projekte/dicot.html). In Landau, I obtained the certificate for engagement in teaching (https://www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/landau/hda/angl/urku).

Photo: a.c. (10/2021)

Curriculum Vitae

since 11/2022

Subject specialist for educational sciences and cultural and social sciences (art history and fine arts, foreign language philology (Romance languages, English, German), philosophy)

03/2022 - 12/2022

Research assistant (LfBA) at the Institute for General Education, AB Heterogeneity (16 SWS)

10/2021-03/2022

Visiting professor at the University of Graz (Austria) at the Institute for Educational Research and Teacher Training

10/2020-02/2022

Substitute professor for educational and transformation research in the Department of General, Intercultural, and International Comparative Education and Educational Psychology (EW1) at the University of Hamburg

4/2018-9/2020
Research assistant/postdoc (8 SWS), University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau Campus, Institute for General Education, AB 1 Heterogeneity

10/2017 – 03/2018
Acting Professor of Social and Intellectual History of Education and Training in the Department of General, Intercultural, and International Comparative Education and Educational Psychology (EW1) at the University of Hamburg

2016
Research project Evaluation of the Histories of Education Summer School of the EERA, Berlin – funded by Stichting Paedagogica Historica, supervised by Ian Grosvenor, University of Birmingham. (UK)

Since 2014
Lecturer at the Universities of Hamburg, Lüneburg, and Koblenz-Landau

2013-2017

Independent researcher in Ghent (Belgium) and parental leave 2013-2014

2013
Doctorate on the emergence of modern educational thinking from European expansion (summa cum laude)

10/2006 – 6/2012
Research assistant, University of Hamburg (including parental leave 2009-2010)

2006
Master of Arts (magistra artium) (very good), major in educational science, minors in Latin American studies (focus on indigenous cultures/political science) and ethnology
 

Foreign languages

   English
   Dutch
   Spanish
   French

I am happy to accept theses (BA & MA) in general education, i.e., both from the BA in Education and from the educational sciences, as the primary reviewer.

If you want to contact me in that regard, please send me an abstract by email. When writing your abstract, please follow the recommendations for gender-neutral language. 

• Historical education research & colonialism
• Postcolonial approaches in educational science
• Critical perspectives on racism and intersectionality

2022 Publication grant for articles in international scientific journals from the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg for the article Pox and Parents (Paedagogica Historica)

2021 Publication grant for articles in international scientific journals from the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg for the article Depicting Colonial Contexts in Worlds of Bildung (together with Anke Wischmann) (HistofEdRes. UK)

8/2020-3/2021 Start-up funding for postdoctoral researchers for the project Decolonizing Educational Theory, research funding from the University of Koblenz-Landau.

2019 Co-applicant for the 2019-2023 research initiative 'Education in Transformation,' development of profile areas at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau Campus, funded by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (member of the board/cluster spokesperson, Cluster I)

2016 Evaluation of the Histories of Education Summer School, funded by EERA (European Educational Research Association) and Stichting Pedagogica Historica

Member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Historical Education Research Section (since 2006), spokesperson for the Working Group on Pre-Modern Education History (AVE) (since 10/2021).

Member of the editorial board of the Yearbook of Education (since 2016)

Reviewer for Paedagogica Historica. International Journal of the History of Education. Editorial Assistant Board (2017, 2018), external reviewer (since 2016).

External reviewer for History of Education Researcher (since 2019).

External reviewer for Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik (ZRGP) (since 2022).

External reviewer for EERA-ECER - NW 7 Social Justice and Intercultural Education (2020), NW 17 Histories of Education (2021, 2022).

2019: DAAD travel grant (BERA, Manchester).

2019: Research grant from the University of Koblenz-Landau (ISCHE, Porto).

2011: International Summer School for the History of Education, Birmingham (UK), funded by EERA.

2010: DGfE Award for Outstanding Work by Young Educational Scientists for the article “An early researcher in the field of education: Bernardino de Sahagún in sixteenth-century Mexico,” History of Education, 37/6, November 2008, 757–772.

2008: Travel grant from the University Foundation, University of Hamburg (ECER Gothenburg, Sweden)

2007: Travel grants from the University Foundation, University of Hamburg, and bursary from the History of Education Society (UK) (ECER Ghent, Belgium; History of Education Society (UK), Annual Conference, Birmingham

Monograph

Spieker, Susanne (2015): Die Entstehung des modernen Erziehungsdenkens aus der europäischen Expansion. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang Verlag.

Works as an editor

Baquero Torres, Patricia/Mai-Anh Boger/Charlotte Chadderton/Lalita Chamakalayil/Susanne Spieker/Anke Wischmann (Red.) (2023): Rassismuskritik und (Post)Kolonialismus. Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2023. Weinheim: Beltz Verlag (in Vorbereitung).

Büger, Carsten et al. (2022) (alle Herausgeber:innen Red.): 30 Jahre (und kein) Ende der Geschichte. Jubiläumsjahrbuch 2022. Weinheim: Beltz Verlag (in Vorbereitung).

Pusch, Barbara/Fitz-Klausner, Sebastian/Horne, Christopher/Spieker, Susanne (2021) (Hrsg.): Heterogenität in Landau. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (in Vorbereitung)

Wischmann, Anke/Spieker Susanne (2022) (Eds.): Refugees in/and Education throughout Time in Europe. Re- and Deconstructions of Discourses, Policies and Practices in Educational Contexts., in Tertium Comparationis. Journal for International Comparative and Multicultural Education, 28 (2), 2022/2 (im Erscheinen).

Wischmann, Anke/Spieker, Susanne/Springer, Matthias/Salomon, David (2021) (Red.): Neue Arbeitsverhältnisse - Neue Bildung. Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2020. Weinheim: Beltz Verlag.

Czejkowka, Agnieszka/Spieker, Susanne (2021) (Red.): Innere Sicherheit. Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2019. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

Articles

Spieker, Susanne (2021): Erziehung als Arbeit in John Lockes Schriften. In: Wischmann, Anke/Spieker, Susanne/Salomon, David/Springer, Jürgen-Matthias (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2020. Neue Arbeitsverhältnisse - Neue Bildung, S. 36-50.

Wischmann, Anke/Spieker, Susanne/Salomon, David/Springer, Jürgen-Matthias (2021): Editorial: Neue Arbeitsverhältnisse - Neue Bildung, S. 11-16.

Spieker, Susanne (2021): 'I Found Myself in a Storm' - Unsicherheiten im England des 17. Jahrhunderts. In: Czejkowka, Agnieszka/Spieker, Susanne (2021) (Hrsg.): Innere Sicherheit. Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2019. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, S. 109-126.

Spieker, Susanne (2021): Knowledge about Children, Education, and Upbringing in Bernardino de Sahagún's Florentine Codex. In: Dierksmeier, Laura/Fechner, Fabian/Takeda, Kasuhusa (eds.): Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource: Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Knowlege between the Americas and Europe, 1492-1800. University of Tübingen Press (SFB 1070, Universität Tübingen).

Spieker, Susanne (2020): Versammlung. Historisches Stichwort. In: Agnieszka, Czejkowska/dies. (Hrsg.): Innere Sicherheit, Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2019. S. 329-333.

Czejkowska, Agnieszka/Spieker, Susanne (2021): Editorial: "Pädagogiken" und Felder innerer Sicherheit. In: dies. (Hrsg.): Innere Sicherheit. Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2019, S. 9-14.

Schondelmayer, Anne-Christin/Spieker, Susanne (2020): Transnationale Lebenswelt: Kollektive Bezüge und Imagination. In: Machold, Claudia/Messerschmidt, Astrid/Hornbach, Sabine (Hrsg.): Jenseits des Nationalen?. Erziehungswissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Opladen: Barbara Budrich. S. 145-161.

Spieker, Susanne (2018): John Lockes gentry education im Hinblick auf sein Engagement für die Kolonisierung Nordamerikas Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen (BIOS), 2/2016.

Spieker, Susanne/ Angelo Van Gorp (2016): Capacity Building and communitas in the history of education, Paedagogica Historica, 52/6, S. 768-83.

Spieker, Susanne (2016): Report Histories of Education Summer School Conference for Postgraduate Students, 2010–2015. Paedagogica Historica. 52/6 Sublementary Material, S. 1-79. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/suppl/10.1080/00309230.2016.1240211?scroll=top).

Münte-Goussar, Stephan/ Spieker, Susanne/ Wischmann, Anke (2009): Chancen durch Bildung? Eine Diskurskritik. In: Liesner, Andrea/ Lohmann, Ingrid (Hg.): Bachelor bolognese. Erfahrungen mit der neuen Studienstruktur. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, S. 133-163.

Spieker, Susanne (2008): An Early Researcher in the Field of Education: Bernardino de Sahagún in Sixteenth Century Mexico, History of Education, 37/6, S. 757-72.

Other (reviews, translations, blog)

Spieker, Susanne (2022): Rezension: Riettiens, Lilli (2021): Doing Journeys. Transatlantische Reisen von Lateinamerika nach Europa Schreiben, 1839-1910. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, HSozKult. Historische Bildungsforschung Online, https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/reb-94652?title=l-riettiens-doing-journeys&q=Riettiens&sort=&fq=&total=14&recno=1&subType=reb

Spieker, Susanne (2021): Rezension: Wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ (2019): Afrika sichtbar machen! Essays über Dekolonisierung und Globalisierung. Aus dem Englischen von Thomas Brückner. Münster. Wischmann, Anke et al. (2021) (Red.): Neue Arbeitsverhältnisse - Neue Bildung. Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2020. Weinheim: Beltz Verlag, S. 308-312.

Spieker, Susanne/Wischmann, Anke (2021): Refugees and Education. Voices, Discourses and Policies. EERA blog. URL: blog.eera-ecer.de/refugees-and-education-voices-discourses-and-policies/ (abgefragt 4.7.2021).

Spieker, Susanne (2021): Rezension: Astrid Messerschmidt (2020): fremd werden. Geschlecht - Migration - Bildung. Wien: Löcker: In: Jahrbuch für Pädagogoik 2019. Innere Sicherheit.

Spieker, Susanne (2018): Rezension: Alberto Acosta und Ulrich Brand (2018): Radikale Alternativen. Warum man den Kapitalismus nur mit vereinten Kräften überwinden kann. München: Ökom. In: Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2018. Political Correctness.

Spieker, Susanne (2018): Rezension: Björn Milbradt (2018): Über autoritäre Haltungen in 'postfaktischen' Zeiten. In: Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2018. Political Correctness.

Spieker, Susanne (2017): Rezension: Gilles Kepel mit Antoine Jardin (2016): Terror in Frankreich. Der neue Dschihad in Europa. Aus dem Französischen von Werner Damson. München: Verlag Antje Kunstmann. In: Jahrbuch für Pädaogik 2017. Pädagogik in Zeiten von Krieg und Terror.

Spieker, Susanne (2017): Rezension: Michael Wildt (2017): Volk, Volksgemeinschaft, AfD. Hamburg. In: Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2017. Pädagogik in Zeiten von Krieg und Terror.

Spieker, Susanne (2017): Wissenschaftliche Übersetzung Deutsch-Niederländisch beim Interview mit dem Journalisten Günter Wallraff/ Übersetzung transkribierter Passagen für Baldwin Van Gorp (2018): Verdraaid! Het nieuws anders bekeken. Antwerpen: Pelckmans Pro. URL: www.pelckmanspro.be/verdraaid.html (08.02.2018).

Spieker, Susanne (2015): Wissenschaftliche Übersetzung Niederländisch-Deutsch: Van Gorp, A., Simon, F., & Depaepe, M. (2015): The challenge of writing Ovide Decroly’s biography: a case for collective biography. In A. Kruze (Ed.), Laikmets un Personiba (S. 135–168). Riga: Izdevnieciba RaKa.

2022

Radio Reports about Schools for Refugee Children in Germany around 1950. ISCHE 43, Milan (Italy) August 31–September 2, 2022 (submitted).

Refugees, Childhood, and School in Postwar Radio Programming, 7th Conference on Educational Ethnography, June 16-18, 2022, Flensburg (accepted).

Symposium, Contradictions and Perspectives – 30 Years of the Yearbook for Education. September 8-9, 2022, University of Flensburg.

2021

Colonialism – School – Education, presentation/workshop as part of visiting professorship, Institute for Educational Theory and School Research, University of Graz, October 13, 2021

Emigration from the Palatinate: Traces of Memory in Public Spaces. Annual Conference of the History of Education Society (UK), Birmingham. Timeless Memories: Memory and Temporality in Histories of Education, November 5–7, 2021.

Gentry Education in Transition in Early Modern England. International conference of the Working Group on Pre-Modern History, History of Education, Section for Historical Education Research of the DGfE. September 30–October 1, 2021.

Shifting Identities in Transnational Spaces. Migrants and Minorities narratives through time (organizing and chairing), ECER Symposium NW 17, Histories of Education: > together with Anke Wischmann (University of Flensburg), Geneva 2021, September 6-10, 2021.

ECER Special Call NW 17: Shifting Identities in Transnational Spaces. Migrants and Minorities narratives through time. > Together with Anke Wischmann (University of Flensburg), Lajos Somogyvári (University of Pannonia, Hungary), Christian Ydesen (University of Aalborg, Denmark) at ECER Geneva 2021.

2020

ECER Special Call NW 17/NW 7: Refugees in/and Education throughout Time in Europe: Re- and Deconstructions of Discourses, Policies and Practices in Educational Contexts. Together with Anke Wischmann (University of Flensburg) (accepted, ECER Glasgow 2020 canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic). > Co-organizer of the virtual panel NW 17 and NW 7 together with Iveta Kestere (University of Riga, Latvia), Lisa Rosen (University of Cologne) and Anke Wischmann on August 26-27, 2020  - Announcement

2019

Interdependencies of World-References: Educational Discourse critically Re-read. Symposium together with Anke Wischmann (University of Flensburg), SIG: Race, Ethnicity, and Education. BERA Annual Conference 2019, Manchester (UK), September 10-12, 2019.

"Found Myself in a Storm' - Uncertainty as Part of Educational Thought. European Educational Research Association (ECER), Hamburg, September 3-6, 2019.

Missionaries as Migrants. International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE), 41st session, July 17-20, 2019, Porto (Portugal).

Discussant, Images of Turks and Turkey in pedagogy and education policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, University of Hamburg/DFG, May 23-25, 2019.

Transnational Living Environments, Collective References, and Imaginations. SIIVE (Section for Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Research) of the DGfE, together with Anne-Christin Schondelmayer, February 21-22, 2019, Wuppertal.

2018

Children, Education, and Upbringing explored in Sahagún's Historía. Conference: Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800, University of Tübingen, September 10-11, 2018.

“How to remedy the harm this land impresses”: Education and Climate, International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE), 40th session, August 29-1, 2018, Berlin.

The worlds of Bildung and education. Interdependences of world references in discourses on Bildung and Education throughout time. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Bolzano (Italy), August 4-7, 2018, together with Anke Wischmann (University of Hamburg).

Discussant, symposium Familiar Paths and Unknown Terrain. Movements in Critical Pedagogy in the Context of Global Transformation. Andrea Liesner/Anke Wischmann, Conference of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Essen, March 19-21, 2018.

2017

Questions about the concept of education: scientific geographical considerations, together with Anke Wischmann (University of Hamburg), conference of the DGfE Commission for Scientific Research, Göttingen, October 4-6, 2017.

2016

Locke's education of the gentry – biography and work. Annual conference of the Commission for Qualitative Education and Biography Research in cooperation with the Historical Education Research Section of the DGfE, TU Dortmund, October 13-15, 2016.

“Should I stay or should I go?” New Researchers in the field of History of Education, lecture together with Ian Grosvenor (University of Birmingham, UK), Angelo Van Gorp (Ghent University, B), ISCHE 38, Chicago IL (USA), August 17-20, 2016.

Representations of body and body parts in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), lecture together with Ana Martinez Martinez and Christian Roith (University of Almería, Spain), ISCHE 38, Chicago IL (USA), August 17-20, 2016.

2012

The Missionary as a Border Crosser – Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) in New Spain. Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Osnabrück. March 12-14, 2012.

2011

Negotiating Meaning of Place – 16th Century Missionary Education in New Spain. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Berlin, September 13-16, 2011.

The Invention of the Americas and its Role for the Emergence of Modern Educational Thinking, Histories of Education. Summer School Conference European Educational Research Association (EERA) and Paedagogica Historica Foundation, Birmingham (England). June 9-11, 2011.

2009

Symposium (co-organizer) Writing Histories of Intercultural Education, together with Christian Ydesen (Aalborg University, DK), European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Vienna (Austria), September 28-30, 2009.

2008

The invention of America and its impact on thinking about education. Three studies on overcoming Eurocentrism in the history of education. Forum of Young Historians of Education. Young Researchers' Conference, Historical Education Research Section (DGfE), Berlin, September 19-20, 2008.

Andrés Pérez de Ribas' Historia as a Source for the History of Education - From Teaching to Learning? European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Gothenburg (Sweden). Funded by: University Foundation, University of Hamburg. September 10-12, 2008.

2007

An Early Researcher in the Field of Education: Bernardino de Sahagún in 16th Century Mexico. Annual Conference History of Education Society, Birmingham (England). Funded by: Bursary History of Education Society (UK), University Foundation University of Hamburg, December 7-9, 2007.

'America' in John Locke's Writings – Constructing the Other. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Pre-Conference, Ghent (B). Funded by: University Foundation of the University of Hamburg, September 17-18, 2007.

Conference Secretary (from November 2006 to August 2007), collaboration with LOK for the 29th Session of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE), Hamburg. Children and Youth at Risk. Approaches in the History of Education, July 25-28, 2007.