Stefan Höhne is a social and cultural historian of Western modernity. His research focuses on the critical history of urbanism and urbanization, as well as the history of technology and infrastructures and social and cultural theory of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has taught and held positions at a variety of institutions, including the Technical University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin and New York University. He currently is a Mercator Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. He is also a member of the editorial collective of the open access journal sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.

Stefan’s key publications include articles in Medicine, Anthropology and Theory, New Diversities and City. His award-wining monograph “New York City Subway – Die Erfindung des urbanen Passagiers” (Böhlau 2017) will be published in English translation with MIT Press in spring 2021.

A list of publications and a detailed CV can be found here: https://kulturwissenschaften.de/en/person/stefan-hoehne/