Assoc. Prof Stefan KREBS

Stefan Krebs is Associate Professor for Contemporary History at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). He studied history, political science and philosophy at the universities of Aachen and Aix-en-Provence. He received his PhD in the history of technology from RWTH Aachen University. His current research interests include the industrial history of Luxembourg and the history of repair and maintenance. He is author of Technikwissenschaft als soziale Praxis [Engineering Science as Social Practice] (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009); and (together with Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas and Gijs Mom) Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is co-editor of Kulturen des Reparierens [Cultures of Repair] (Transcript, 2018); The Persistence of Technology (Transcript, 2021); Mediating the Decline of Industrial Cities (Routledge, 2026); and Deindustrialisierung: Zum sozio-ökonomischen Wandel westeuropäischer Industriegesellschaften seit den 1970er Jahren [Deindustrialization: The Socio-economic Transformation of Western European Industrial Societies Since the 1970s] (Metropol, forthcoming). In 2015 he received the Maurice Daumas prize of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) for his article “Dial Gauge versus Senses 1–0”: German Auto Mechanics and the Introduction of New Diagnostic Equipment, 1950–1980. Technology and Culture 55, 2 (2014): 354–389. From 2019 to 2024 he directed the project “Remixing Industrial Pasts” in connection with Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. The project resulted in a multimedia exhibition on the university campus and the online exhibition “Minett Stories”. The project team received the 2021 FNR PSP Award, a 2022 Luxembourg Design Silver Award and the 2023 Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

Research Interests:

• History of science and technology
• History of maintenance and repair
• History of deindustrialization
• Industrial heritage

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