Marcus Böick

Biography

Marcus Böick is associate professor of modern European and German history at the Historical Institute of Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). From 2021-2022, he served as a junior research fellow jointly at the Institute for Advanced Studies at University College London and the German Historical Institute London. In 2022, he was visiting professor at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

During his time at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Böick will investigate the rise of German security businesses during the 20^th century. His project takes a long-term perspective on the establishment and transformations of commercial private security businesses in Germany specifically and more broadly across Europe and the United States. He will explore a new historical perspective on the transformations of private security as a vast field of negotiations and interactions between state, economy, society, and individuals, discussing the global emergence of a new type of “security capitalism.”

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor, Ruhr University Bochum
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University