In the media:

Gesa Coordes, Vegetarier im Unabhängigkeitskampf, in: DUZ. Magazin für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, no. 3/2022, 18 March 2022, p. 34–6


 Julia Hauser is a researcher in Global History at the University of Kassel. She completed her Habilitation in Modern and Contemporary History in 2022 and served as fixed-term Associate Professor of Global History and the History of Globalization Processes at Kassel from 2014 to 2021. She earned her PhD from the University of Göttingen in 2012 and teaches on the interconnected histories of Germany, Britain, the Middle East, India, as well as on modern and contemporary history broadly speaking.

Her research focuses on cultural entanglements involving knowledge, food, religion, and gender. Her first book examined German-Protestant missionary activities in Beirut. Her second book explores transnational debates on vegetarianism across Germany, Britain, India, and the United States. She has also co-authored an illustrated global history of plague with artist Sarnath Banerjee.

Hauser’s research has taken her to archives and libraries across Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and the United States, supported by numerous academic grants and fellowships. She is an alumna of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA).

Her current project examines debates on imperial debt across Britain, India, and the Caribbean.

Fields of Expertise

Global History (19th and 20th century)

Entangled history of Germany and the Ottoman Empire

Entangled history of Germany, Britain, and India (19th and 20th century)

Visual history

Key Publications

With Sarnath Banerjee, The Moral Contagion. Delhi: Harper Collins India, 2024.

A Taste for Purity. An Entangled History of Vegetarianism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015.

“Internationalism and Nationalism. Indian actors at the Fifteenth World Vegetarian Congress (1957)”. South Asia. Journal for South Asian Studies (44/1, 2021, pp. 152–166).

With Bilal Orfali and Kirill Dmitriev, eds., Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier. Perspectives on the Middle East and Beyond. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

With Christine Lindner and Esther Möller, eds., Entangled Education. Foreign and Local Schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate Lebanon (19th—20th Centuries), Beiruter Texte und Studien; 137 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016).