Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso

Contact

Facility

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Education Studies

History of Education

Status group

Professor

Email

marcelo.caruso☞ Please insert an @ at this point ☜hu-berlin☞ Please insert a period at this pointde

Telephone

+49 30 2093-66870

Postal address

Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin

Registered office

Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7, 10117 Berlin

Room

206

Research projects

Project
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Research subsidy10/2026 - 12/2027
Decentering the colonial archive in histories of education: Cases from the everyday in the nineteenth century British empire
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Collaborative Research Centre04/2026 - 12/2029
Working on the (Un)just Curriculum. A Historical-Comparative Curriculum Analysis for the Germand Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) (1945-1990)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation01/2026 - 12/2027
Education, far-right, libertarianism and hegemony. Educational strategies during Javier Millei’s government (Argentina, 2023-2027)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso, Prof. Dr. Cinthia Wanschelbaum
Project
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Research subsidy11/2025 - 02/2028
Teaching Sociology in the Global South: Towards a history of school sociology in Latin America
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space09/2023 - 11/2025
Polytechnic under Palms
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space09/2023 - 11/2025
'The Scientific-Technical Revolution' and the Educational Film of the GDR
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG other programmes07/2023 - 01/2024
International Conference: Between Democracy and Progress? Development, Nation Building, and Education in early post-colonial India (1930-1964)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant07/2022 - 09/2027
The contested disciplinarity of the specialized administration. Knowledge appropriation, knowledge production and knowledge practices of the middle ranks of the primary school administration in Prussia 1817-1919
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Excellence Strategy Cluster09/2020 - 02/2025
EXC 2055 /1: Negotiating the future of education: The UNESCO’s Futures of Education-initiative and the OECD’s Future of Education and Skills 2030-initiative
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Florian Waldow, Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Research Training Group04/2019 - 03/2028
IRTG 2445: Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke, Prof. Dr. Jean François Prud`homme
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space03/2019 - 06/2023
Verbundprojekt: Bildungs-Mythen – eine Diktatur und ihr Nachleben. Bilder(welten) über Praktiken und Wirkungen in Bildung, Erziehung und Schule der DDR Hier: Teilprojekt Kindheitserinnerungen – Narrative im Erinnerungsdialog von Grundschüler*innen mit alten Menschen aus der DDR (Prof. Dr. Detlef Pech/Humboldt-Universität)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Detlef Pech, Prof. Dr. Sabine Reh
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space03/2019 - 06/2023
Der Mythos naturwissenschaftlicher Neutralität. Der schulische Lehrfilm im Kalten Krieg
Project head(s): Dr. Kerrin von Engelhardt, Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space03/2019 - 06/2023
Bildungs-Mythen - Eine Diktatur und ihr Nachleben. Koordinierung des Forschungsverbundes
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Sabine Reh, Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space03/2019 - 06/2023
"Bildung für alle". Eigen- und Fremdbilder bei der Produktion und Zirkulation eines zentralen Mythos im transnationalen Raum
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso, Dr. Jane Weiß
Project
DFG other programmes04/2018 - 09/2018
International conference "Nature and Education", August 28, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant03/2018 - 04/2022
'Pedagogical'. Emergence, imposition, variance and transformation of a modern conceptual field (German states, approx. 1750-1850)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant03/2016 - 09/2020
The bureaucratization of Groupings. Local and transnational dynamic of innovation in the introduction of age-graded school classes in compulsory education (Prussia, the US, and Spain, ca. 1830-1930)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG other programmes11/2015 - 12/2015
International conference "Decolonzation(s) and Education"
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG other programmes03/2014 - 06/2014
VA: Traditions and Futures. 24th Congress of the German Education Research Association
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
04/2013 - 03/2015
Comparative Eduacation Theory
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DAAD09/2012 - 08/2013
Bi-national Master studies in cultural analysis and education
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso
Project
DFG Individual Research Grant08/2012 - 10/2017
The development and regulation of "mixed" standards for the organization of teaching. Comparing processes of transfer (Spain, Ireland, and India, approx. 1840-1900)
Project head(s): Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso

Contact

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Research projects

Decentering the colonial archive in histories of education: Cases from the everyday in the nineteenth century British empire

Working on the (Un)just Curriculum. A Historical-Comparative Curriculum Analysis for the Germand Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) (1945-1990)

Education, far-right, libertarianism and hegemony. Educational strategies during Javier Millei’s government (Argentina, 2023-2027)

Teaching Sociology in the Global South: Towards a history of school sociology in Latin America

Polytechnic under Palms

'The Scientific-Technical Revolution' and the Educational Film of the GDR

International Conference: Between Democracy and Progress? Development, Nation Building, and Education in early post-colonial India (1930-1964)

The contested disciplinarity of the specialized administration. Knowledge appropriation, knowledge production and knowledge practices of the middle ranks of the primary school administration in Prussia 1817-1919

EXC 2055 /1: Negotiating the future of education: The UNESCO’s Futures of Education-initiative and the OECD’s Future of Education and Skills 2030-initiative

IRTG 2445: Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation

Der Mythos naturwissenschaftlicher Neutralität. Der schulische Lehrfilm im Kalten Krieg

Bildungs-Mythen - Eine Diktatur und ihr Nachleben. Koordinierung des Forschungsverbundes

"Bildung für alle". Eigen- und Fremdbilder bei der Produktion und Zirkulation eines zentralen Mythos im transnationalen Raum

International conference "Nature and Education", August 28, 2018 - September 1, 2018

'Pedagogical'. Emergence, imposition, variance and transformation of a modern conceptual field (German states, approx. 1750-1850)

The bureaucratization of Groupings. Local and transnational dynamic of innovation in the introduction of age-graded school classes in compulsory education (Prussia, the US, and Spain, ca. 1830-1930)

International conference "Decolonzation(s) and Education"

VA: Traditions and Futures. 24th Congress of the German Education Research Association

Comparative Eduacation Theory

Bi-national Master studies in cultural analysis and education

The development and regulation of "mixed" standards for the organization of teaching. Comparing processes of transfer (Spain, Ireland, and India, approx. 1840-1900)