Curriculum Vitae:

12.08.1978 born in Quakenbrück, Lower Saxony
since 1998 studies of history, German language and literature, educational studies at the WWU Münster, first state examination and M. A.
9/2000 - 3/2001 Lingua C-assistant for German at the “Escola Secundária de Bocage” (Setúbal/Portugal)
5/2001 - 11/2002 student traineeship at the Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Münster for the exhibition “Zerbrochen sind die Fesseln des Schlendrians”, Westfalens Aufbruch in die Moderne
1/2003 - 12/2003 student research assistant at the department for German philology II (department chair of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kraft)
4/2004 - 12/2006 student research assistant at the history department (department chair of Prof. Dr. Thamer)
2007 first state examination and M. A., thesis on the culture of remembrance in Portuguese democracy
11/2007 - 6/2008 lecturer at the Friedrich-List-Berufskolleg in Hamm, Westphalia
since Winter 2008 research visit in Portugal
since 4/2010 PhD student and research assistant at the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in Modern and Pre-Modern Cultures” at WWU Münster

Ph.D. Project:

“Portugalization” in the multi-religious colonial empire (working title)

Research interests:

  • contemporary history of Portugal, especially its culture of remembrance and accounting for the past
  • (Portuguese) colonialism in the 20th century
  • history in the museal context

Function within the Cluster/Membership in Projekts/Study Groups:

Other Memberships:

Member of the Gabinete de Estudos da Memória Histórica da Democracia Portuguesa des IECC-PMA at the University of Lisbon

Publications:

  • editorial assistant for Gisela Weiß und Gerd Dethlefs (eds.): Zerbrochen sind die Fesseln des Schlendrians. Westfalens Aufbruch in die Moderne. Münster 2002
  • (in cooperation with Hendrik Herte): Zwei Satiren. „Warendorfer Pferde“ und „Bekenntnisse eines  Nestbeschmutzers“, in: Water Gödden und Jochen Grywatsch (eds.): „Wenn man aufhören könnte zu lügen.“. Der Schriftsteller Paul Schallück (1922-1976). Bielefeld 2002. pp. 173-180
  • „Die Olympischen Spiele sind längst keine Spiele mehr“. Schallücks Rolle bei der internationalen Tagung „Sport und Nationalismus“, in: ibid., pp. 325-328
  • „In the Name of April” – Building the Past Around a Political Myth in Portuguese Democracy, in: Teresa Pinheiro, Beata Cieszynska, Eduardo Franco (ed.): Peripheral Identities: Iberia and Eastern Europe between dictatorial past and European present. Lisbon, Warsaw: CompaRes. (in print) [volume on the self-titled conference at the TU Chemnitz from 14 to 16 November 2007
  • As narrações de Abril – construções do passado à volta de um mito político, in: Letras Com Vida. Literatura, Cultura e Arte 1 (2010)

Contact

Cláucio Serra Domingues M. A.
Geiststraße 24-26 Room 134
D-48151 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-23547
Fax: +49 251 83-23500

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Thomas Großbölting History Department Professorship for Modern and Contemporary History II Domplatz 20-22 Room 136
D-48143 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83 24320
Fax: +49 251 83 24382

Mentor

Christian Müller Dr. des. M.Stud. (Oxon.) M.A.

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