Julia Hauser came to the University of Kassel in October 2014 as an assistant professor of global history and the history of globalization processes after graduating from the University of Göttingen in 2012. She teaches classes on the entangled history of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as on the history of globalization. Her research interests include the history of cultural entanglements with regards to knowledge, food, religion, and gender. She is currently working on an entangled history of vegetarianism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work, which takes her to libraries and archives in Germany, Lebanon, India, Britain, France, and the United States, has been supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Deutsche Morgenländische Gemeinschaft, and the Max Weber Foundation. During a research trip to India in 2017, she was affiliated with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She is also a member of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). Her publications include German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut: Competing Missions (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015); an article on this project in a special issue on Civilizing Missions, edited by Ulrich Hofmeister and Stefan Huebner, in the Journal of World History; and a volume she edited with Christine Lindner and Esther Möller, Entangled Education: Local and Foreign Schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate Lebanon (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016).
