Dr. Maximilian Bushman
Research associate
Maximilian Buschmann works as a research associate at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine (IGEM) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the research project "Brain Research at Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Injustice".
He studied Modern and Contemporary History, Medieval History, and Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and most recently completed a DFG-funded project on the history of hunger strikes at the LMU Munich.
Previously, he was a Bavarian Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 2023, he published his dissertation on the transnational history of hunger strikes, which won the dissertation prize of the Bavarian American Academy and was shortlisted for the Hedwig Hintze Prize. His research and teaching interestsin include the history of biopolitics, psychiatry, prisons, eugenics, hunger and racism. He is particularly interested in the historicity of bodies and body practices and the history of knowledge.
- History of psychiatry and the penal system
- Medicine in National Socialism
- History of hunger, nutrition and the body
- History of forms of protest in the 19th and 20th centuries
- History of human rights and humanitarianism