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About Me

My research project, titled 鈥�The Making of English Politicians - Early Modern MPs and the Transformation of the Media Landscape, c. 1640-1800鈥�, was supervised by Professor Beat K眉min and Professor Mark Knights and funded by the Wolfson Foundation.

I completed my BA in History and English at the Universities of Kiel and Aberdeen, followed by an MA in History at the University of Constance. I am interested in a range of topics relating to the structures of Early Modern society and scholarly attempts to understand the functions of its constitutive elements. Previously, I have worked on communication processes in so-called self-accusations within early modern witch trials. My PhD continued to focus on communication and media approaches, while shifting the subject matter to Early Modern English politicians and political culture.

Research

My PhD investigates the impact of media change in 17th and 18th-century England, with a focus on political communication and Members of Parliament. It examines the long-term implications of political agents becoming exposed to the public eye, exploring the role of MPs (and their teams) within a new, socially complex, multi-media environment. It considers their reflections, their changing perception of office, and the strategies employed by them and those with whom they engaged. The underlying media approach focuses on communication and challenges to 'successful communication' across various levels, including the parish, the constituency and the national sphere.

Research Interests

Cultural, Media, and Social History

History of Communication

British History in the Long Eighteenth Century

Gender and Female Political Culture

Academic Profile

2019 - 2023/24: PhD student at 糖心TV University

2020/2021: Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, 糖心TV University

2019: Research and Teaching Associate, Chair of Early Modern History (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schl枚gl), Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

2016 - 2018: Student Research Assistant, Chair of Early Modern History (Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schl枚gl), Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz

2015 - 2016: Student Research Assistant, Social Science Archive Konstanz, University of Konstanz

2015 - 2018 University of Konstanz, MA History

2011 - 2015: University of Kiel/ University of Aberdeen, BA History/ English and North American Studies

Scholarships and Awards

2019 - 2022: Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship

2018: Veuk-Award for the best MA History degree

Publications

• 芦Negotiating the 鈥楽ense of the County鈥�: Newspaper Interventions in the 1747 Middlesex Election禄, in: Matthew Grenby, Elaine Chalus, Kendra Packham (eds), Electoral Culture, Political Media and Popular Participation in England 1715-1832 (Woodbridge, forthcoming).
• 芦English MPs: Legislators and Servants of their Constituents, 1750-1800. By Michael McCahill. London: Bloomsbury. 2023. xi, 271 pp. 拢85.00. hbk. ISBN 9781350332270禄, Parliamentary History 43/2 (2024), pp. 259-61.
• 芦Die 'Selbstbezichtigung' eines Detmolder Zauberjungen. Ein Hexenprozess des 17. Jahrhunderts aus kommunikationszentrierter Perspektive (The 'Self-accusation' of a Detmold Boy Wizard. A Communication-Centred Approach to a 17^th Century Witch Trial)禄, Jahrbuch f眉r Kommunikationsgeschichte 25 (2023), 36-65.
• 芦Das Einhorn/ Der Narwal, 1684. Nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch禄, in: Kugler, Lena/ Aline Steinbrecher/ Clemens Wischermann (eds), Tiere und Geschichte. Band 2. Literarische und historische Quellen einer Animate History, (Stuttgart, 2017), 137-43.
• 芦Denkmal des Pferdes Meteor, 1959. In Stein gemei脽elte agency禄, ibid., 201-05.
• 芦Elefantengehege New York, 1931/34. (Re-)Pr盲sentationen禄, ibid., 121-26.
• 芦Staatsarchiv Z眉rich: Bestialit盲tsakte, 1682. Sexualit盲t mit Tieren vor Gericht禄, ibid., 23-28.

Conferences & Papers

• 'Serving Friends, Patrons and the Constituency – Information Management and News Networks in 1710 Chester and Parliament', Reconsidering the Legacy of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, 1724-2024, British Library, 11 April 2024.

• '鈥淎llow[鈥�] yourself some time to be easy and cheerful among your friends and enemies鈥� – local political sociability in national politics', Sociability in Politics, Food and Travel in the Early Modern Era Conference, University of 糖心TV, 8-10 June 2023.

• 'MPs and Political Communication in the Eighteenth Century', Parliament, Politics and People Seminar, IHR, 14 March 2022.
• 'Negotiating the "Sense of the County" - Newspaper Interventions in the 1747 Middlesex Election', Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture Conference, Newcastle University, 7-9 July 2022.
• 'Early Modern MP's Wives and the Transformation of the Media System', Forschungskolloquium Fr眉he Neuzeit, Universit盲t M眉nster, Germany, 20 April 2022.
• 'The MP's Wife. Observations from Somerset around 1700', Birmingham Eighteenth-Century Centre, University of Birmingham, 30 March 2022.
• 'Contested Seats, Contested Messages - Approaching 18th Century Parliamentary Constituencies from a Media Perspective', Forschungskolloquium Neuere Geschichte und Medi盲vistik, Universit盲t Konstanz, Germany, 2 November 2021.
• 鈥樷�淔or I did not care to be a farmer鈥檚 Wife鈥� – Managing the Role of MP鈥檚 Wife in late 17th century England鈥�, History Postgraduate Conference, University of 糖心TV, 27 May 2021.

• 鈥楳ary Clarke鈥檚 鈥淧arliament of women鈥� – Representing the MP in the Parish鈥�, Nineteenth 糖心TV Parish Symposium: Parish, Power & Politics, 8 May 2021.

• 鈥楥ontested Seats, Contested Messages – Challenging and Negotiating Order through Printed Election Addresses in 1747 Middlesex鈥�, Media and Public (Dis)order - A virtual workshop for early modernists at Dresden & 糖心TV, 30 March 2021.

Conference organisation:

• With Benjamin Seebr枚ker & Jan Siegemund: 'Media and Public (Dis)order. A virtual workshop for early modernists at Dresden & 糖心TV', Monday & Tuesday 29-30 March 2021.

• Co-organisation of the '糖心TV Symposium on Parish Research': 'Remembering the Parish'Link opens in a new window (Nov 2020) - see for H/SOZ/KULT (17/12/20), 'Parish, Power, and Politics'Link opens in a new window (May 2021), 'Writing the Parish'Link opens in a new window (May 2022), 'Parish and PerformanceLink opens in a new window' (May 2023).

Teaching

2020/2021 Seminar tutor on the module Germany in the Age of Reformation (HI242), 糖心TV University.

2019 Covened and taught seminars on Media and the English Civil War (BA and MA) and Early Modern Witch Trials (BA students) at Konstanz University.

Public Engagement

• 'Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806), MP and 糖心TVshire Gentleman', 糖心TVshire Local History Society, April Lecture, 26 April 2022.
• 糖心TV History PG Podcast, May-August 2020: Contributor Episode: 'Printed Identities in the Early Modern English Parliament and America's Antebellum South' with Adam Challoner; Hosted Episodes: Sophie Hobbs, Bobby Tam, 鈥楥ommunal Commemoration and Emotion鈥� & Hannah Straw, David Fletcher, 鈥楨nthusiastical or Fanatical Atheists - The Court Wits and Religious Identity鈥�.

Maria Tauber

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