Moritz von Brescius possesses substantial teaching experiences in the fields of Modern European History, the History of Science, Capitalism, Modern Resource Regimes, and Imperial and Global History with a regional focus on Asia (India and Japan) on Bachelor and Master level. He taught at Cambridge, Konstanz and Bern. In all, 18 BA/MA seminars, courses, one practical course on museology in cooperation with a museum in Munich.

List of classes:

University of Cambridge (GB), (2013)

• Historical Argument & Practice (with Prof Christopher Clark, St Catharine’s College)

University of Konstanz, (G), (2014-2018)

• Global cultural encounters since 1800
• Trade, Science and Conquest: The European East India Companies, 1700 to 1858
• Japan in World History, 1800-1973
• Introduction to Global History: Key Readings, Methods and Themes
• The imperial dimension of German History, 1871-1945
• Classics in the history of History
• Brokers of Change: Experts and Cultures of Expertise in Historical Perspective
• Europe’s Industrialisation in Global Context
• Comparative Empires in Modern History
• German perceptions of the Extra-European World, 1750-1914
• Curating historical museum exhibitions
• Past futures: scientific visions in the twentieth century
• The long shadow of consumption: global histories of labour and the environment in the modern world

Universität Bern (CH) (2018–2023)

• US history in international perspective, c.1780-1945
• The long shadow of consumption: global histories of labour and the environment in the modern world
• Resource regimes in the 19th and 20th centuries, with subsequent online publication project: http://omeka.unibe.ch/s/bioprospecting 
• Plantation economies (with Prof Christof Dejung)
• The rule of time. Progress, spatial power and temporal orders in modern times (with Prof Christof Dejung)
• Industrial modernity and the material of rubber