Persönliche Daten

Abteilung

Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien

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Funktion im IfZ

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

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Standort

München

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E-Mail

osullivan@ifz-muenchen.de

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Telefon

089/5527907-18

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Studium

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Beruflicher Werdegang

• 2019: Promotion im Fach Geschichte an der University of Edinburgh, Schottland
• 2017: Fellow am Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München
• 2016: European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Fellow am Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München
• 2015: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Forschungsstipendium
• 2014: German History Society, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Language Grant
• 2012: Master of Arts in History an der University College Dublin, Irland
   

Forschungsprojekte

• Colonialism and the Expansion of the Third Reich in Poland: Discourses, Perceptions and Methods
• Cultural Genocide and the Holocaust: Investigating Policies and Practices of Nazi Cultural Destruction within Global Frameworks

IfZ-Publikationen

• Colonial Paradigms of Violence.
• Nazi Germany, annexed Poland, and colonial rule.

Publikationen

Monographien:

• Rachel O'Sullivan, Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)

Herausgeberschaften:

• Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing, European Holocaust Studies, vol. 4 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2022) (with Michelle Gordon)

Aufsätze:

• Michelle Gordon and Rachel O'Sullivan, "Introduction: Colonial Paradigms of Violence," in Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing, European Holocaust Studies, vol. 4, ed. Gordon and O'Sullivan (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2022), 9-29.
• Frank Bajohr und Rachel O'Sullivan. "Holocaust, Kolonialismus und NS-Imperialismus: Forschung im Schatten einer polemischen Debatte," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, vol. 70, no. 1 (2022): 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/vfzg-2022-0008.
• Rachel O'Sullivan. "The German Mission in Africa and Poland: Women, expansion, and colonial training during the Third Reich." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 22 no. 2, 2021. muse.jhu.edu/article/801556.
• "Integration and Division: Nazi Germany and the “Colonial Other” in Annexed Poland," Journal of Genocide Research 22, no.4 (2020): 437-458. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2020.1757904.

Rezensionen:

• Review of Jonas Kreienbaum, 'A Sad Fiasco: Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908,' Patterns of Prejudice (2020) DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2020.1769330
• Review of Martin Winstone, ‘The Dark Heart of Hitler’s Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government’, European History Quarterly vol. 45, 4 (Oct. 2015), 797-799.
• Review of Britta Schiller, ‘Postcolonial Germany: Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation’, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, vol. 110, 339 (Jan. 2015), 150-151.
• Review of Wendy Lower, ‘Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields’, German History, vol. 32 (Sept. 2014), 502-504.

Online-Veröffentlichungen:

• Frank Bajohr und Rachel O'Sullivan, "Holocaust, Kolonialismus und NS-Imperialismus," Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: https://www.bpb.de/themen/antisemitismus/dossier-antisemitismus/507390/holocaust-kolonialismus-und-ns-imperialismus/ (21.04.2022)