Dr. Johanna Sackel

Faculty of Arts and Humanities » Historisches Institut » Contemporary History

Manager - Academic Councillor

E-Mail:
johanna.sackel@uni-paderborn.de
Phone:
+49 5251 60-5509
ORCID:
0009-0006-8776-5066
Web:
Homepage
Office Address:
Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn
Room:
N4.128
Office hours:

Do, 13-14 Uhr
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Research

Research Interests

  • Environmental History after 1945
  • History of Seas and Oceans
  • History of Sustainability
  • International History

Current Project:
Planet Ocean: A History of the Seas in the Anthropocene
In connection with this, member of the German Research Foundation (DFG) network “Planetary Health: Planetary Thinking in the Social Sciences and Humanities”

Finished (PhD Project):
Who Owns the Sea? Debates on Marine Resources at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1968–1994)
(awarded with the Prize of the International History Working Group of the German Historians’ Association (VHD), and the Award for Outstanding Dissertations conferred by the Praesidium of Paderborn University; link to the book [in German])

Selected Projects

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Publications

Selected Publications

Wem gehört das Meer? Globale Ressourcen und die dritte UN-Seerechtskonferenz (1968–1994)

J. Sackel, Wem gehört das Meer? Globale Ressourcen und die dritte UN-Seerechtskonferenz (1968–1994), 1st ed., De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2022.


Räume in der Internationale Geschichte

S. Kunkel, M. Homberg, J. Sackel, M. Deuerlein, J. Klein, eds., Räume in der Internationale Geschichte, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2025.


Ressourcenräume: Seerecht, Geopolitik und Wissenschaftsdiplomatie zwischen den Seychellen, Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland um 1980

S. Kunkel, J. Sackel, in: S. Kunkel, M. Homberg, J. Sackel, M. Deuerlein, J. Klein (Eds.), Räume in der Internationalen Geschichte, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2025.

DOI

Networks

J. Sackel, A.-K. Wöbse, in: F. Torma (Ed.), A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age, Bloomsbury Academic, London/New York, 2021.


„Rationale Fischerei“? Das Konzept des Maximum Sustainable Yield im Spannungsfeld von Ökonomie und Ökologie

J. Sackel, Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 105 (2018) 183–200.

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Teaching

Teaching Areas

  • Environmental History
  • Maritime History
  • Public History/"Histotainment"
  • History of the United Nations
  • History of Global "North–South" Relations

Current Courses

  • Project Seminar: History of Sustainability
  • Introduction to the Study of Modern and Contemporary History
  • The 1970s in Key Events
  • Orientation in the History Degree Programme

Current Courses

  • Projektseminar: Geschichte der Nachhaltigkeit
  • Orientierung im Studium - Geschichte
  • Einführung in das Studium der Neuesten Geschichte/Zeitgeschichte (NG)
  • Die 1970er Jahre in Schlüsselereignissen (NG)

Outreach

Interview on the topic of “Humans and the Sea: The History of High-Seas Fishing” for RadioWissen’s BR podcast Alles Geschichte/History (12 January 2024).

Panel discussion at the Globe Festival 2023 in Leipzig: “Who Owns Nature? Historical and Legal Perspectives on Nature as a Resource” (11 October 2023).

Further Information

Mitgliedschaften

  • German Historians’ Association (VHD)
  • International History Working Group in the VHD
  • International Maritime History Association
  • C:POP. Transdisciplinary Research Center for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies
  • Network partner of the UN Ocean Decade in Germany

Organization of events

  • Annual Conference of the International History Working Group in the German Historians’ Association (VHD): “Spaces in International History from Antiquity to the Present”, Berlin, 29 and 30 September 2022 (with Sönke Kunkel, Michael Homberg, Martin Deuerlein, and Jonas Klein)
  • Lecture series "Consumption as a global challenge", winter term 2018/19, combined with a workshop hosted with civil initiatives in Paderborn
  • Lecture series "Discussing the Antropocene", winter term 2019/20

Sonstiges

  • Member of the Senate Committee for Planning and Finance (since October 2025)
  • Member of the Faculty Council (2021–2025)
  • Founding member of the Sustainability Initiative at Paderborn University
  • Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)