Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Social and Economic History

Profile

Jule Ulbricht is doctoral candidate in Social and Economic History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a predoctoral researcher at the Global Intellectual History graduate school at Freie Universität in Berlin. Her research is situated at the intersection of critical studies of capitalism, spatial theories of economic infrastructure and history of economic ideas. In spring 2025, she will be a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago. Jule completed her Masters in History at Columbia University in New York for which she has received a Fulbright Scholarship. Her thesis was on the nexus of land, agricultural practices and economic speculation as the site of an emerging historical capitalist consciousness. She did her Bachelors in Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University Berlin.

Besides her studies, Jule has worked in various international research institutions such as the Forum Transregionale Studien, Kunsthistorische Institute in Florenz, Archiv der Avantgarden, and Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, and before entering academia, she worked in documentary filmmaking. 

Main research and teaching interests

Histories and theories of capitalism, histories of imperialism, psychoanalysis and labor, history of economic thought, critical theory, historical geography of capitalism

Current research projects
PhD project: Continuous Flow: A Global History of Just-in-Time, 1960s-1980s.

Scholarships

2022: Columbia University Thesis Grant

2021: Fulbright Scholarship

Education

M.A. History, Columbia University in New York

B.A. Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Humboldt-University