Etter at jeg fullførte doktorgraden min ved University of Cambridge i 2019, jobbet jeg som Lecturer in Modern European History ved University of Oxford og som Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow i historie ved Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Jeg begynte ved UiB i februar 2024. 

Mitt arbeid er hovedsakelig opptatt av historien av Sentral- og Øst-Europa i det 20. århundre. Min første bok, «Communists and Kings», ble utgitt på Oxford University Press i 2022. En redigert bok (sammen med Paul Betts) «Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century» kom ut i 2024. Mitt nåværende hovedprosjekt handler om Esperantos historie i Europa under den kalde krigen.

I tillegg har jeg publisert artikler om arkitektur, kulturarv, tid og minne i det kommunistiske Øst-Europa. Andre forskningsinteresser inkluderer «nasjonalbolsjevismens» historie før 1945, revolusjonene i 1989, språkpolitikk og «kronopolitikk». Jeg kommenterer også samtidspolitikk på https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/contributors/articles/marcus-colla

Noen av mine nyere artikler og kapitler inkluderer:

• "Von Honecker zur Hyperrealität. Erinnerung und Bedeutungslosigkeit in Berlin" in Böick, Goschler and Jessen (eds), Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit (2024), pp. 169-190
• "A Monument to Friendship: Socialist Modernity and the Reconstruction of Tashkent, 1966-1975" in  Colla and Betts (eds), Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
• With Adéla Gjuričová, "1989: The Chronopolitics of Revolution", History and Theory 62, 4 (2023), pp. 45-65

Jeg er redaktør for De Gruyters bokserie «Time and Periodization in History», og jeg hører gjerne fra potensielle forfattere.

HIS102 - Oversyn over nyare historie frå 1750

EUR103 - Europa etter 1945: Ressursar, demografi, økonomi

HIS115 - Time and Temporality in Modern History (Fordjuping i nyare historie)

HIS203 - Teoriar, metodar og historiske kjelder

HIS250 - Bacheloroppgåve i historie

MA - Historie (Politikk og historiebruk)

BOOKS

• (With Anna Gutgarts and Oded Steinberg) Zeitenwenden: European Perspectives on Periodization and Time (De Gruyter, Forthcoming)
• (With Paul Betts) Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
• Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic: Communists and Kings (Oxford University Press, 2022)

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS  

• ‘Notes from the House of the Dead: Reflections on Reinhart Koselleck’s Geronnene Lava’, German History (forthcoming)
• (With Adéla Gjuričová), '1989: The Chronopolitics of Revolution', History and Theory 62, 4 (2023), pp. 45-65
• ‘Whither Prussia? Berlin’s Humboldt Forum and the Afterlife of a Vanished State’, Central European History 56, 1 (2023), pp. 2-17
• ‘Rebuilding the Past: East German Preservationists as “Time Activists”’, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 28, 4 (2021), pp. 584-606
• ‘The Spectre of the Present: Time, Presentism and the Writing of Contemporary History’, Contemporary European History 30, 1 (2021), pp. 124-135
• ‘Memory, Heritage and the Demolition of the Potsdam Garnisonkirche, 1968’, German History 38, 2 (2020), pp. 290-310
• ‘The Politics of Time and State Identity in the German Democratic Republic’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 29 (2019), pp. 223-251
• ‘Constructing the Prussia-Myth in East Germany, 1945-61’, Journal of Contemporary History 54, 3 (2019), pp. 527-550
• ‘Prussian Palimpsests: Historic Architecture and Urban Spaces in East Germany, 1945-1961’, Central European History 50, 2 (2017), pp. 184-217  

BOOK CHAPTERS  

• ‘“Tardy Embezzlers of Time”? Some Reflections on Time and Temporality under State Socialism’ in Colla, Gutgarts and Steinberg, Zeitenwenden (forthcoming)
• "Von Honecker zur Hyperrealität. Erinnerung und Bedeutungslosigkeit in Berlin" in Böick, Goschler and Jessen (eds), Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit (2024), pp. 169-190
• ‘“A Monument to Friendship”: Socialist Modernity and the Reconstruction of Tashkent, 1966-1975’, in Colla and Betts, Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (2024), pp. 251-282
• (With Paul Betts), 'What, Where, and When was Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century?' in Colla and Betts, Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (2024), pp. 1-20

PUBLIC BOOK REVIEWS 

• Frank Trentmann, ‘Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942–2022’, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (30 April 2024)
• Tobias Becker, ‘Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia’, Times Literary Supplement (2 February 2024)
• Joachim C. Häberlen, Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe’, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (6 December 2023)
• Robert Gellately, Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (13 April 2021)
• Brendan Simms, Hitler: Only the World Was Enough, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (11 September 2019)
• Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The Fourth Reich: The Spectre of Nazism from World War II to the Present, Times Literary Supplement (10 May 2019)

ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEWS 

• Alexey Tikhomirov, The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961 (Lanham, 2022), German History 42, 1 (2024), pp. 138-140
• Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane and Patrice G. Poutrus (eds), After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR (New York and Oxford, 2021), Central European History 56, 2 (2023), pp. 353-355
• Franziska Klemstein, Denkmalpflege zwischen System und Gesellschaft (Bielefeld, 2021), German History 40, 4 (2022) pp. 616-618
• Florian Urban, Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity (London, 2021), Journal of Architecture 27, 2-3 (2022), pp. 468-471
• Clare Copley, Nazi Buildings: Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-Unification Berlin (London, 2020), German Politics and Society 40, 1 (2022), pp. 109-112
• Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton, 2020), German History 39, 4 (2021), pp. 651-652
• Andrew Demshuk, Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany (Ithaca, 2020), German History 39, 1 (2021), pp. 141-143
• Edward Saunders, Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory: Cold War and Post-Soviet Representations of a Resettled City (London, 2019), Urban History 47, 4 (2020), pp. 698-699
• Vladimir Kulic (ed.), Second World Postmodernisms: Architecture and Society under Late Socialism (London, 2019), Journal of Contemporary History 55, 4 (2020), pp. 938-940
• Roman Krakovsky, State and Society in Communist Czechoslovakia: Transforming the Everyday from WWII to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (London, 2018), Cultural and Social History 16, 4 (2019), pp. 535-536
• Stephan Ehrig, Marcel Thomas and David Zell (eds), The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture (London, 2018), German Studies Review 42, 3 (2019), pp. 645-648
• Albert Earle Gurganus, Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life (Rochester, 2018), German Politics and Society 37, 2 (2019), pp. 132-135
• Cornelia Wilhelm (ed.), Migration, Memory, and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present (New York and Oxford, 2017), Journal of Contemporary History 54, 1 (2019), pp. 225-227
• Paul Stangl, Risen from Ruins: The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin (Stanford, 2018), Reviews in History (October 2018), https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/2282
• Andrew Demshuk, Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People's State in 1968 (Oxford, 2017), H-Soz-Kult(May 2018), http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-28852
• Matthias Grünzig, Für Deutschtum und Vaterland. Die Potsdamer Garnisonkirche im 20. Jahrhundert (Berlin 2017), H-Soz-Kult(October 2017); http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-28064
• Simon Ward, Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012 (Amsterdam, 2016), German Politics and Society 35 (2017), pp. 96-99

REFLECTIONS AND COMMENTARIES

• New Chancellor, New Challenges – Same Old Germany? Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (25 February 2025)
• The Miseries of Germany’s Navel-Gazing, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (18 February 2025)
• The Claustrophobia of German Politics, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (12 November 2024)
• The Powerlessness of the Powerful, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (29 January 2024)
• Left Behind: Sahra Wagenknecht’s New Populism, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (30 October 2023)
• Friedrich Merz and the Fall of the “Berlin Firewall”, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (1 August 2023)
• A New Solidarity? Olaf Scholz on the Future of Europe, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (2 September 2022)
• Mikhail Gorbachev: The Last Revolutionary, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (31 August 2022)
• Six Months of War in Ukraine: Europe’s Life and Fate, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (23 August 2022)
• Turkey plays the Dance of the Go-Betweens in the Ukraine War, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (7 April, 2022)
• The Revenge of the Scholzomat, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (23 November, 2021)
• Germany and Europe: “Ampel” Time for Reform, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (8 October 2021)
• German Elections: Any Colour You Like, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (16 August 2021)
• Germany’s Ordinary New World, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (5 February 2021)
• What is History?, contribution to ‘Head to Head’ section, History Today (August 2020)
• The Vanishing Hegemon, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (20 April 2020)
• A Thuringian Eruption in Germany, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (11 March 2020)
• What 1989 Unleashed, and What it Didn't, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (4 November 2019)
• Germany’s Enigmatic East and the Fate of European Populism, Lowy Institute‘Interpreter’ (3 September 2019)
• The Burden of Friendship: Germany, Trump and NATO, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (5 July 2019)
• Condemned to Become: The Future of the Past in Berlin, Royal Historical Society (8 March 2019)
• A Certain Boredom: Taking Stock of Democracy in 2019, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (4 March 2019)
• The Merkel Legacy – A Study in Shades, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (2 November 2018)
• Germany – A Tale of Two Conservatisms, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (2 October 2018)
• The Ever-Widening Atlantic, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (15 June 2018)
• The AfD and the Politics of German Identity, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (14 May 2018)
• Germany gets a Government, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (5 March 2018)
• The Unending Nightmare for Germany’s SPD, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (30 January 2018)
• Favourites of 2017: Pankaj Mishra’s “Age of Anger”, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (18 December 2017)
• Breakdown in Berlin, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (27 November 2017)
• German Elections: The Collapse of Consensus, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (26 September 2017)
• Turkey’s EU Accession: A Useful Fiction, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (12 September 2017)
• The Russian ‘Taboo’ and the German Election, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (22 August 2017)
• The G20 Hamburg Riots and the German Election, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (17 July 2017)
• The Merkel-Trump Meeting: NATO, Jobs and Trade, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (20 March 2017)
• Merkel's Faustian Bargain with Erdogan, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (6 February 2017)
• Trump: Not the Ideal Poster-boy for Euro-Populists, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (28 November 2016)
• Trump, Germany and the New European Order, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (15 November 2016)
• The Future of Angela Merkel's Chancellorship, Lowy Institute ‘Interpreter’ (16 September 2016)