Nina Kleinöder is assistant professor for economic and social history. In her research, she is interested in industrial relations and the change of working environments. She also has a research focus in business history where she currently works on the history of colonial railway building from a business historical perspective.

• Economic and social history with a focus on the 19th and 20th century
• Labour History
• Business History
• (Post)Colonial History
• History of "securitization"

• Colonial History from an economic and business historic perspective: "The Business of Railroads. German Companies and the Colonies"
• "Bavarian-Brazilian alliance in the History of Infrastructural State and Nation-Building" (with Prof. Dr. Vitor Marcos Gregório, Instituto Federal do Paraná, Brazil), (BAYLAT)
• Coordination of the scientific network "(Post-) Colonial Business History (PCBH)" (DFG)
• Humanization of Working Life (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)
• SFB 138 / Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 138 "Dynamics of Security. Types of Securitization from a Historical Perspective";  Subproject C06 "Foreign trade securitisation - Economic security beyond the nation state" (DFG)

• Coordinator of the Academic Research Network (DFG): "(Post-)Colonial Business History" (PCBH); Co-Coordinator: PD Dr. Alexander Engel
• Arbeitskreis für kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte e.V. (AKKU)
• Network "Humanization of Working Life"
• Network "Women in Economic History"