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Dr. Vera Kallenberg

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Assoziiertes Mitglied/Kollegium Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg

Habilitandin (postdoctoral researcher) at the Department of Contemporary History at Bielefeld University

E-Mail
Vera.kallenberg@uni-bielefeld.de
Homepage
Dr.Kallenberg at Uni Bielefeld

I am a historian of modern and contemporary history, working across the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in transnational, transatlantic, and transregional perspective. My research focuses on Central Europe, the German-speaking world, and the United States.

 I specialize in European-Jewish legal, social, cultural, and gender history, as well as the histories of marginalized groups in Central Europe. A second major focus is German-Jewish intellectual history and Jewish émigré and refugee intellectuals in the U.S., alongside the history of knowledge about antisemitism, racism, feminism, the Holocaust, and intersectionality.

 My current habilitation project examines the life and work of Gerda Lerner (1920–2013), a pioneering feminist historian, in the context of Jewish experience, Nazi persecution and its aftermath, U.S. exile, social movements, and the circulation of critical knowledge.

 

Current Teaching and Research Interests

  • German-Jewish intellectual history (esp. Hannah Arendt)
  • Jewish life writing and women’s history
  • History of African American women’s historiography in the U.S.
  • Holocaust literature and film
  • Global gender history and feminist thought
  • Anti-racist and intersectional movements
  • Histories of racism and antisemitism in Germany
  • Historiography of women’s and gender history
  • Critical historiography