Curriculum Vitae - Department of History - University of North ...

KAREN HAGEMANN, Dr. phil. habil.
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195, USA
Phone: +1-919-962-2115
Fax: +1-919-962-1403
Email: hagemann@unc.edu
http://history.unc.edu/people/faculty/karen-hagemann
CURRICULUM VITAE
I. Education
February 2000: Final examination of the habilitation proceedings at the Faculty of Humanities of the Technical
University of Berlin, Germany; title of the habilitation “Mannlicher Muth und Teutsche Ehre.
Entwürfe von Nation, Krieg und Geschlecht in der Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege Preussens”
(Manly Valor and German Honor: Images of the Nation, War and Gender during the Period of Prussia’s
Anti-Napoleonic Wars).
March 1989: Dr. phil. (summa cum laude), Department of History, University of Hamburg; title of the
dissertation “Frauenalltag und Männerpolitik. Alltagsleben und gesellschaftliches Handeln von Arbeiterfrauen
in der Weimarer Republik” (Women’s Lives and Men’s Politics: Working-class Women’s
Everyday Life and Social Action in the Weimar Republic). Thesis adviser: Prof. Klaus Saul.
December 1980: Examination for Gymnasium teachers (Erstes Staatsexamen) with highest distinction at the
University of Hamburg (degree similar to an MA, three majors: history, German literature and education).
II. Teaching and Research Positions
Since July 2005: James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Department of History, Adjunct Professor at the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, UNC.
October 2003 – June 2005: Professor of History and Co-director of the Centre for Border Studies at the
University of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.
Summer term 2003: Rhineland-Palatinate-Visiting-Chair for International and Interdisciplinary Gender
Studies at the University of Trier, Germany.

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August 2002 – April 2003: DAAD Visiting Chair for German and European Studies at the Munk Center for
International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.
August 2000 – September 2003: Privatdozentin at the Department of History and Art History, Faculty I –
Humanities, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Summer term 2000: Guest Professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender,
Technical University of Berlin. Guest Professorship at the University of Salzburg declined.
February 1997 – January 2000: Post-doc research position at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on
Women and Gender, Technical University of Berlin, financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(German Research Foundation).
April 1995 – December 1996: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin (Senior Lecturer) of Modern German and
European History and Gender History and Co-Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on
Women and Gender at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
April 1989 – March 1995: Wissenschaftliche Assistentin of Modern German and European History at the
History Department, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
April 1987 – March 1989: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer) of Modern German and European
History at the History Department, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
1981 – 1987: Freelance instructor of adult education courses in German and European history and collaborator
of three historical exhibitions in Hamburg in cooperation with the Hamburgische Kulturbehörde
(Hamburg Department of Culture), the Hamburg Museum and the Museum of Labor.
III. Grants, Funds and Fellowships
2014-15: Fellowship of the American Academy Berlin for one term offered.
May 2012: Arts and Sciences Grants for Interdisciplinary Initiatives of the University of North Carolina for
the Project “Gender, War and Culture,” http://gwc.web.unc.edu/
September 2011 – May 2012: Fellowship of the National Humanities Center (John G. Medlin Jr. Fellowship).
Fall 2011: Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy Berlin (declined), offered again for fall 2012
(but had to be declined because of UNC leave policy).
February 2011: Curriculum Development Grant by the UNC Center for Global Initiatives.
September – December 2008: Fellowship of the UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities, IAH Faculty Fellow.
September 2008 – September 2010: Director of the project Zwischen Realisierung und Verhinderung:
Ganztagsschulen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den 1970 und 1980er Jahren – Historische
Fallstudien, with Prof. Konrad H. Jarausch (Center for Contemporary Studies, Potsdam, ZZF) two
year grant by the Federal Ministry for Research and Education (Bundesministerium für Forschung und
Bildung), Projektbereich “Ganztägige Bildung, Erziehung und Betreuung” im Rahmen des Investitionsprogramm
“Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung,” for one post-doc position.

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October 2006: Teaching grant by the UNC Office of Undergraduate Curricula for a cluster course proposal
titled “War, Revolution and Culture in a Transatlantic Perspective, 1770-1850.” See:
http://www.unc.edu/wrc/.
May 2006: Teaching grant by the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, UNC.
November 2005: Teaching grant by the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
August 2005 – July 2008: Director of the project Between Ideology and Economy: The Politics of All-day-
School-Education in the former GDR and the FRG in comparison (1945-1989), with Prof. Konrad
Jarausch (ZZF) grant of the Volkswagen Foundation for one post-doc and one research assistant position.
June 2005 – May 2008: Together with Prof. Richard Bessel, Prof. Alan Forrest and Dr. Jane Rendall (University
of York) grant by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council for a research project on
Nations, Borders, and Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences
for three sub-projects on Austria/Germany, Britain and France (three post-doc positions) and one international
conference (project director: A. Forrest).
May 2005 – November 2008: Director of the project Nations, Borders, and Identities: The Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars in European Memories, together with Prof. Etienne François (Free University of
Berlin) grant by the German Research Foundation for five research projects focusing on Austria/Germany
Britain, France, and the Russian Empire (three dissertations grants and two post-doc positions)
and a series of five international workshops and conferences. Together, the AHCR and the
DFG project formed the NBI research group, see: http://www.unc.edu/nbi/index.htm.
January 2005 – February 2009: Director of the project The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg?
The ‘Time Politics’ of Public Education in Post-war Europe: An East-West Comparison, with
Prof. Christina Allemann-Ghionda (University of Cologne) and Prof. Konrad Jarausch (ZZF) grant of
the Volkswagen Foundation for a comparative research project and one international workshop and
conference, see: http://www.time-politics.com/.
January – June 2004: Senior Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, working group “Civil
society in historical and comparative perspectives”.
September 2000 - July 2001: Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, USA.
February 1997 – January 2000: Research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
January – June 1991: Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
(SCASSS) in Uppsala, Sweden.
January – June 1986: Research grant from the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (Hans Böckler Foundation).
July 1981 – December 1983: Research grant from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National
Academic Foundation).

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IV. Memberships and other Scholarly Activities
• American Historical Association
• Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen und- Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG) (Working Committee on
Women’s and Gender History)
• Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung (AHF)(Working Committee on Historical Peace Research)
• Arbeitskreis Militär und Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit (AMG) (Working Committee on the
Military and Society in Early Modern History)
• Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte (AKM) (Military History Working Committee)
• Coordination Council for Women in History
• German Studies Association
• Military History Society
• Verband der Historiker Deutschlands (German Historical Association)
Since 2012: Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence for the History of
Violence, Newcastle, Australia, which is jointly organized by the University of Newcastle, the Australian
National University, Melbourne University, Monash University, Adelaide University and the University
of Tasmania.
Since 2008: Member of the Board of Directors of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era.
Since 2007: Member of the Executive Board of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.
Since 2006: Member of the Scholarly Council of The Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution,
Florida State University.
Since 2002: Member of the Board of the International Museum of Women, San Francisco.
1999 – 2005: Member of the Board of the AKM.
1998 – 2006: Co-founder and co-editor of the scholarly email discussion list Gendered Nations/Nationalisms
with 400 scholars from 41 countries.
1995 - 1998: Member of the Board of the AMG
1994 – 1996: Member of the Advisory Board to the Central Office for Women’s Affairs at the Technical
University of Berlin as a representative of female students and university lecturers.
1990: Co-founder of the AKHFG, which represents German scholars in the International Federation for
Research in Women’s History (IFRWH), from 1990 - 1994 national coordinator, together with Karin
Hausen.
Editorial Boards
Since 2012: Member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat (Academic Advising Board) of the journal L´Homme.
June 2005 – December 2010: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Women’s History.

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Since March 2003: Member of the Editorial Board of the Blackwell History Compass, an electronic journal.
Website: www.history-compass.com
Since February 2008: Co-operating editor of the journal Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung.
V. Fields of Research
My research interests in Modern German, European and Transatlantic Women’s and Gender History (late
eighteenth to twentieth centuries) include the following fields:
• comparative and transnational history,
• the history of experiences, memories and identities,
• the history of masculinity,
• the history of the military, war and violence,
• the history of nation and nationalism,
• the history of political concepts and culture,
• the history of welfare states and social and population policy,
• the history of education,
• the history of the women’s movement,
• labor history, the history of working-class culture and the labor movement,
• family history and the history of women’s everyday lives,
• oral history.
Authored Books
VI. Publications
“Mannlicher Muth und Teutsche Ehre”. Nation, Militär und Geschlecht zur Zeit der Antinapoleonischen
Kriege Preußens, Paderborn, 2002 (Schöningh, series “Krieg in der Geschichte,” vol. 8).
Frauenalltag und Männerpolitik. Alltagsleben und gesellschaftliches Handeln von Arbeiterfrauen in der
Weimarer Republik, Bonn, 1990 (JHW. Dietz. Nachf.).
With Jan Kolossa, “Gleiche Rechte - Gleiche Pflichten?” Der Frauenkampf um “staatsbürgerliche” Gleichberechtigung.
Ein Bilder-Lese-Buch zu Frauenalltag und Frauenbewegung in Hamburg, Hamburg, 1990
(VSA) (256 pp.).
“Wir wollen zum Köhlbrand!” Geschichte und Gegenwart der Hamburger Arbeiterwohlfahrt. 1919 - 1985,
Hamburg, 1985 (VSA).
Work in Progress:
Revisiting Prussia’s Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture, Memory (Under contract with Cambridge
University Press)
Edited Books
Editor with Stefan Dudink and Anna Clark, Representing Masculinity: Citizenship in Modern Western Culture,
Basingstoke, 2008, paperback edition 2012 (Palgrave Macmillan series “Studies in European Culture
and History”).

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Editor with Alan Forrest and Etienne François, War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in
Modern European Culture. Basingstoke, 2012 (Palgrave Macmillan series “War, Culture and Society, 1750 –
1850”). (In preparation for a paperback edition: 2013)
Editor with Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde, Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative
Perspectives, Oxford and New York, 2008, paperback edition 2011 (Berghahn Books series “European Civil
Society”)
Editor with Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, Children, Families and States: Time Policies
of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe, Oxford and New York, 2011 (Berghahn
Books). (In preparation for a paperback edition: 2013)
Editor with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775 –
1830, Basingstoke, 2010 (Palgrave Macmillan series “War, Culture and Society, 1750 – 1850”). (In preparation
for a paperback edition: 2013)
Editor with Alan Forrest and Jane Rendall, Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of
the French Wars, 1790 – 1820, Basingstoke, 2009 (Palgrave Macmillan series “War, Culture and Society,
1750 – 1850”).
Editor with Jean Quataert, Geschichte und Geschlechter. Revisionen der neueren deutschen Geschichte,
Frankfurt a.M. und New York 2008 (Campus series “Geschichte und Geschlechter”).
Editor with Jean Quataert, Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography, Oxford and New
York, 2007/2010 (Berghahn Books).
Editor with Michael Epkenhans and Stig Förster, Militärische Erinnerungskultur. Soldaten im Spiegel von
Biographien, Memoiren and Selbstzeugnissen, Paderborn, 2006 (Schöningh series “Krieg in der Geschichte,”
vol. 29).
Editor with Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel, Frieden – Gewalt – Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
als Geschlechterforschung, ed. in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Essen, 2005 (Klartext
Verlag series “Frieden und Krieg. Beiträge zur Historischen Friedensforschung).
Editor with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh, Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History,
Manchester and New York, 2004 (Manchester University Press series: “Gender in History”).
Editor with Karl Christian Führer and Birthe Kundrus, Eliten im Wandel. Gesellschaftliche Führungsschichten
im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Münster, 2004 (Westfälisches Dampfboot).
Editor with Barbara Duden, Regina Schulte and Ulrike Weckel, Geschichte in Geschichten. Ein historisches
Lesebuch, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 2003 (Campus).
Editor with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century
Germany, Oxford and New York, 2002 (Berg Publishers).
Editor with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Heimat — Front. Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter
der Weltkriege, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 2002 (Campus series “Geschichte und Geschlechter”) .
Editor with Ida Blom and Catherine Hall, Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long
Nineteenth Century, Oxford and New York, 2000 (Berg Publishers).
Editor with Ralf Pröve, Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger. Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung
im historischen Wandel, Frankfurt a.M., 1998 (Campus series “Geschichte und Geschlechter”).
Editor, Eine Frauensache. Alltagsleben und Geburtenpolitik 1919 - 1933, Pfaffenweiler, 1991 (Centaurus).
In Print:
Editor with Sonya Michel, Gender and the long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two
Germanys, 1945-1989, Baltimore and Washington DC, 2014 (Johns Hopkins University Press/Wilson Center
Press).

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In Preparation:
General editor, Oxford Handbook “Gender, War and the Western World since 1650”, co-editors Dirk Bonker,
Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose, Oxford and New York, 2017 (Oxford University Press).
Editor with Konrad H. Jarausch, Halbtags oder Ganztags?: Zeitpolitiken von Kindergarten und Schule nach
1945 im europäischen Vergleich, Weinheim, 2014 (Beltz-Juventa).
Editor with Stefan Dudink, Alan Forrest and Michael Rowe, War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy
of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions, Basingstoke, 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan)
Book Series (Editor)
Editor with Rafe Blaufarb and Alan Forrest: Palgrave Macmillan Series War, Culture and Society, 1750 –
1850 (started fall 2008). See: http://www.unc.edu/nbi/palgrave.htm
Editor with Arnd Bauerkämper, and Etienne François: Schöningh Series: “Die Revolutions- und Napoleonischen
Kriege in der Europäischen Erinnerung” (started fall 2012). See:
http://www.schoeningh.de/katalog/reihe/die_revolutions_und_napoleani.html
Journals (Guest editor)
Guest editor with Katherine Aaslestad and Judith Miller, Special Issue: European History Quarterly 37, no. 4
(2007): “Gender, War and the Nation in the Period of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars – European
Perspectives.”
Guest editor with María Teresa Fernández-Aceves, History Practice Section of the Journal of Women's
History 18, no. 1 (2007): “Gendering Trans/National Historiographies: Similarities and Differences in Comparison.”
Guest editor with Katherine Aaslestad, Special Issue of the Journal Central European History 39, (Dec.
2006): “Collaboration, Resistance, and Reform: Experiences and Historiographies of the Napoleonic Wars in
Central Europe.”
Guest editor with Sonya Michel, Special Issue of the Journal Social Politics: International Studies in Gender,
State, and Society 13 (Summer 2006), no. 2: “Child Care in Transition: Eastern and Western Europe in
Comparison.”
Guest editor, Special Issue of the Journal Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 60, no. 2 (2001): “Nach — Kriegs
— Helden: Kulturelle und politische DeMobilmachung in deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichten,”
Guest editor with Molly Ladd-Taylor, Special Issue of the Journal Social Politics: International Studies in
Gender, State, and Society 4, no. 1 (1997): “Gender and Rationalization in Comparative Historical Perspective
- Germany and the United States.”
Guest editor with Anne Lührs, Vom Dienen und (Mit-)verdienen II. Frauenarbeit im Wandel. Vom ausgehenden
Kaiserreich bis zum Ende des Nationalsozialismus, exhibition brochure no. 2 for “Hammonias Töchter -
Frauen und Frauenbewegung in Hamburgs Geschichte,” Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg,
1985.
Journal Articles
“Mobilizing Women for War: The History, Historiography, and Memory of German Women’s War Service in
the Two World Wars,” Journal of Military History 75:3 (2011): 1055-1093.
“Die Ganztagsschule als Politikum: Die westdeutsche Entwicklung in gesellschafts- und geschlechtergeschichtlicher
Perspektive,” Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (Beiheft) 554 no 1 (2009): 209-229.

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“Reconstructing ‘Front’ and ‘Home’: Gendered Experiences and Memories of the German Wars against
Napoleon – A Case Study,” War in History 16, no. 1 (2009): 25-50.
With Monika Mattes, “Ideologie und Ökonomie: Die Ganztagserziehung im deutsch-deutschen Vergleich,”
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschehen B23 (2008): 7-14.
“‘Heroic Virgins’ and ‘Bellicose Amazons’: Armed Women, the Gender Order, and the German Public
during and after the Anti-Napoleonic Wars,” European History Quarterly 37, no. 4 (2007): 507-527.
“From the Margins to the Mainstream? Women’s and Gender History in Germany,” History Practice Section
of the Journal of Women's History 18, no. 1 (2007): 193-200.
With Katherine Aaslestad, “1806 and its Aftermath: Revisiting the Period of the Napoleonic Wars in German
Central Europe,” Central European History 39, no. 4 (2006): 547-579.
“Occupation, Mobilization and Politics: The Anti-Napoleonic Wars in Prussian Experience, Memory and
Historiography,” Central European History 39, no. 4 (2006): 580-610.
“Gendered Images of the German Nation: The Romantic Painter Friedrich Kersting and the Patriotic-National
Discourse during the Wars of Liberation,” Nation and Nationalism 12, no. 4 (2006): 653-679.
“Between Ideology and Economy: The “Time Politics” of Child Care and Public Education in the Two
Germanys,” Social Politics, 13, no. 1 (2006): 217-260.
“’Be Proud and Firm, Citizens of Austria!’ Patriotism and Masculinity in Texts of the 'Political Romantics'
Written During Austria’s Anti-Napoleonic Wars,” German Studies Review 24, no. 1 (2006): 41-62.
“Francophobia and Patriotism: Anti-French Images and Sentiments in Prussia and Northern Germany during
the Anti-Napoleonic Wars,” French History 18, no. 4 (2004): 404-425.
“Female Patriots: Women, War and the Nation in the Period of the Prussian-German Anti-Napoleonic Wars,”
Gender & History 16, no. 3 (2004): 396-424.
“‘Den Pfad ächter Weiblichkeit verfehlt...’ - Heldenjungfrauen im Krieg gegen Napoleon,” DAMALS. Das
Magazin für Kultur und Geschichte 34, no. 10 (2002): 22-27.
With Karin Gottschall, “Die Halbtagsschule in Deutschland - ein Sonderfall in Europa?,” Aus Politik und
Zeitgeschichte, Beilage zur Wochenzeitung ‘Das Parlament’, B 41 (2002): 12-22.
“Kulturelle und politische Demobilmachung in deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichten,” Militärgeschichtliche
Zeitschrift 60, no. 2 (2001): 291-296.
“Tod für das Vaterland. Der patriotisch-nationale Heldenkult zur Zeit der Freiheitskriege,” Militärgeschichtliche
Zeitschrift 60, no. 2 (2001): 307-342.
“Von Männern, Frauen und der Militärgeschichte,” L’Homme 12, no. 1 (2001): 144-153.
“‘We need not concern ourselves...’ Militärgeschichte - Geschlechtergeschichte - Männergeschichte:
Anmerkungen zur Forschung,” Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte. Revue D’Histoire 31, no. 1 (1998): 75-
94.
“Of ‘Manly Valor’ and ‘German Honor’. Nation, War and Masculinity in the Age of the Prussian Uprising
against Napoleon,” Central European History 30, no. 2 (1997): 187-220.
“‘Rationalization of Family Work’: Municipal Family Welfare and Urban Working-Class Mothers in Interwar
Germany,” Special Issue of the Journal Social Politics 4, no. 1 (1997): 19-48.
“Of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Housewives: Norms and Standards of Everyday Housework and the Limits of Household
Rationalization in the Urban Working-Class Milieu of the Weimar Republic,” International Review of
Social History 41, no. 3 (1996): 305-330.
“Nation, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung. Zum kulturellen und politischen Diskurs in Preußen in den Jahren
der antinapoleonischen Erhebung, 1806-1815,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 22, no. 4 (1996): 562-591.

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“Von ‘guten’ und ‘schlechten’ Hausfrauen. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Rationalisierung im großstädtischen
Arbeiterhaushalt der Weimarer Republik,” Historische Mitteilungen 9, no. 1 (1995): 65-84.
“Changer chaque jour de travail: L’emploi des ouvrières de Hambourg dans les années vingts,” in Bulletin.
Centre Pierre Léon d’Histoire Economique et Sociale, 1994, nos. 2-3, Stratégies du marché du travail: entre
mobilités et sédimentations, Lyons (1994): 23-35.
“Der Arbeitskreis historische Frauenforschung,” Metis 2, no 1 (1993): 87-92.
“La ‘question des femmes’ et la rapport masculin-feminin dans la social-democratie allemande sous la Republique
de Weimar,” Le Mouvement Social, no. 163 (1993): 25-44.
“Men’s Demonstrations and Women’s Protest. Gender in Collective Action in the Urban Working-Class
Milieu During the Weimar Republic,” Gender & History 5, no. 1 (1993): 101-119.
“‘Wir hatten mehr Notjahre als reichliche Jahre...’ Lebenshaltung und Hausarbeit in Hamburger Arbeiterfamilien
in der Weimarer Republik,” Journal Geschichte (April/Juni 1991): 28-43.
“‘... wir werden alt vom Arbeiten’. Die soziale Situation alternder Arbeiterfrauen in der Weimarer Republik
am Beispiel Hamburgs,” Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, vol. 30 (1990): 247-295.
“Frauen als handelnde Subjekte der Geschichte zeigen. Nachbereitung der Fernsehserie ‘Unerhört’,” Weiterbildung
& Medien (1989), no. 2: 46-48.
“‘Wir werden alt vom Arbeiten...’ Frauenarbeit im Wandel. Vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik,” Vom
Dienen und (Mit)verdienen II. Frauenarbeit im Wandel. Vom ausgehenden Kaiserreich bis zum Ende des
Nationalsozialismus, ed. by Karen Hagemann and Anne Lührs, exhibition brochure no. 2 for “Hammonias
Töchter - Frauen und Frauenbewegung in Hamburgs Geschichte,” Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte,
Hamburg (1985): 4-20.
With Insa Tjarks and Erika Wulf, “Nicht nur ein ‘Museum der Arbeiter’,” Geschichtsdidaktik 10, no. 4
(1985): 366-373.
With Insa Tjarks and Erika Wulf, “Die Volkskunde - Ein Frauenfach? Bericht über die erste Tagung der
Kommission ‘Frauenforschung’ in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (DGV),” ‘Frauen in der
Geschichte V,’ Geschichtsdidaktik 10, no. 2 (1985): 214f.
“Möglichkeiten und Probleme der ‘Oral History’ für Projekte zur Frauengeschichte am Beispiel meiner Arbeit
zur sozialdemokratischen Frauenbewegung Hamburgs in der Weimarer Republik,” in beiträge 5 zur feministischen
theorie und praxis. Documentation of the 3 rd Historikerinnentreffen in Bielefeld, April 1981, Munich,
(1981): 55-61.
Book Chapters
“Gendered Boundaries: Civil Society, the Public/Private Divide, and the Family,” in The Golden Chain:
Family, Civil Society and the State, eds. Paul Ginsborg, Jürgen Nautz and Ton Nijhuis, Oxford and New
York, 2013, 43-65.
“’German Women Help To Win!’ Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars,” in The Brill
Companion to Women’s Military History, eds. Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, Leiden and Boston,
2012, 485-512.
“A ‘Valorous Nation’ in a ‘Holy War’: War Mobilisation, Religion and Political Culture in Prussia, 1807 to
1815,” in The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, eds. Michael Broers, Agustin
Guimera and Peter Hicks, Basingstoke, 2012, 186-200.
With Alan Forrest and Etienne François, “Introduction: Memories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
in Modern European Culture,” in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European
Culture, eds. Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Etienne François, Basingstoke, 2012, 1-40.
“National Symbols and the Politics of Memory: The Prussian Iron Cross of 1813, Its Cultural Context and its
Aftermath,“ in War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, eds.
Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Etienne François, Basingstoke, 2012, 215-244.

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“A West-German ‘Sonderweg’? Gender, Work, and the Half-Day-Time Policy of Child Care and Primary
Education,” in Children, Families and States: Time Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling
in Europe, eds. Karen Hagemann, Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, Oxford and New
York, 2011, 275-300.
With Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, „Children, Families and States: Time Policies of
Childcare and Education in a Comparative Historical Perspective,“ in Children, Families and States: Time
Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe, eds. Karen Hagemann, Konrad H.
Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, Oxford and New York, 2011, 3-50.
“Celebrating War and Nation: The Gender Order of Patriotic Ceremonies and Festivities in the Time of
Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon, 1813–1815,“ in Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives,
1775-1820, eds. Karen Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, Basingstoke, 2010, 264-306.
With Jane Rendall, “Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wars of Revolution and
Liberation, 1775-1830,” in Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830, eds. Karen
Hagemann, Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, Basingstoke, 2010, 1-40.
“The Military and Masculinity: Gendering the History of the French Wars, 1792–1815,” in War in an Age of
Revolution, 1775-1815, eds. Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, Cambridge and New York, 2010, 331-352.
“‘Unimaginable Horror and Misery’: The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 in Civilian Experience and
Perception,” in Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820,
eds. Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall, Basingstoke, 2009, 157-178.
“‘Desperation to the Utmost’: The Defeat of 1806 and the French Occupation in Prussian Experience and
Perception,“ in The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, eds. Alan
Forrest and Peter Wilson, Basingstoke, 2008, 191-214.
“Civil Society Gendered: Rethinking Theories and Practices,” in Civil Society and Gender Justice. Historical
and Comparative Perspectives, eds. Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde, Oxford and
New York 2008, 17-42.
“The first Citizen of the State: Paternal Masculinity, Patriotism and Citizenship in Early Nineteenth Century
Prussia,” in Representing Masculinity. Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, ed. Stefan Dudink, Karen
Hagemann and Anna Clark, Basingstoke, 2007, 67-88.
With Jean H. Quataert, “Gendering German History: Comparing Historiographies and Academic Cultures in
Germany and the U.S. through the Lens of Gender,” in Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting
Historiography, ed. Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert. Oxford and New York, 2007, 1-38.
“Military, War and the Mainstreams: Gendering Modern German Military History,” in Gendering Modern
German History: Rewriting Historiography, ed. Karen Hagemann and Jean Quataert, Oxford and New York,
2007, 63-85.
“Die Freiheit ruft uns allen”. (Selbst) Entwürfe von Patriotismus und Männlichkeit “politischer Romantiker”
zur Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege Österreichs, 1809 und 1813-15, in Paradoxien der Romantik. Gesellschaft,
Kultur und Wissenschaft in Wien im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, eds. Christinan Aspalter et al., Vienna,
2006, 123-147.
“Aus Liebe zum Vaterland. Liebe und Hass im frühen deutschen Nationalismus,” in Gefühl und Kalkül. Der
Einfluss von Emotionen auf die Politik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Birgit Aschmann, Cologne, 2005,
101-123.
“Krieg, Frieden und Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung – Eine Einführung,”
in Frieden – Gewalt – Geschlecht. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung,
eds. Jennifer Davy, Karen Hagemann and Ute Kätzel, Essen, 2005, 17-56.

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“Ein kerndeutscher Mann. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (11.8.1887 – 15.10.1852),” in Friedrich Ludwig Jahn und
die Gesellschaften der Turner – Wirkungsfelder, Verflechtungen, Gruppenpolitik. Beiträge des Jahnsymposiums
vom 03. bis 05. Oktober 2003 in der Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Ehrenhalle in Freyburg a. d. Unstrut, Halle
2004, 8-15.
With Stefan Dudink, “Masculinity in Politics and War in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850,” in
Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, eds. Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and
John Tosh, Manchester and New York, 2004, 3-21.
“German Heroes: The Cult of the Death for the Fatherland in Nineteenth-century Germany,” in Masculinities
in Politics and War. Gendering Modern History, eds. Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh,
Manchester and New York, 2004, 116-134.
“Die Perthes im Krieg. Kriegserfahrungen und –erinnerungen einer Hamburger Bürgerfamilie in der ‘Franzosenzeit’,”
in Eliten im Wandel. Gesellschaftliche Führungsschichten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, eds. Karl
Christian Führer, Karen Hagemann and Birthe Kundrus, Münster, 2004, 72-101.
“’Mit Männerkraft und Männermuth’. Bewaffnete Frauen in den Kriegen von 1792 bis 1815,” in Bad Girls.
Unangepasste Frauen von der Antike bis heute, ed. Anke Väth, Konstanz, 2003, 109-134.
“Das Heldenmädchen von Lüneburg,” in Geschichte in Geschichten. Ein historisches Lesebuch, eds. Barbara
Duden, Karen Hagemann, Regina Schulte and Ulrike Weckel, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 2003, 253-260.
“Home/Front: The Military, Violence and Gender Relations, in the Age of the World Wars,” in Home/Front:
The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, eds. Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-
Springorum, Oxford and New York, 2002, 1-42.
“Heimat — Front. Militär, Gewalt und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege,” in Heimat —
Front. Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege, eds. Karen Hagemann and Stefanie
Schüler-Springorum, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 2002, 13-52.
“Federkriege. Patriotisch-nationale Meinungsmobilisierung in Preußen in der Zeit der Antinapoleonischen
Kriege, 1806-1815,” in Kommunikation und Medien in Preußen vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Bernd
Sösemann, Stuttgart, 2002, 281-302.
“‘Jede Kraft wird gebraucht’. Militäreinsatz von Frauen im Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg,” in Erster
Weltkrieg – Zweiter Weltkrieg. Ein Vergleich. Krieg, Kriegserlebnis, Kriegserfahrung in Deutschland, eds.
Bruno Thoß and Hans-Erich Volkmann, Paderborn, 2002, 79-106.
“Men’s Demonstrations and Women’s Protest: Gender in Collective Action in Urban Working-Class Milieu
During the Weimar Republic,” in The European Women’s History Reader, eds. Fiona Montgomery and
Christine Collette, London and New York, 2001, 314-328 (Reprint).
“‘Deutsche Heldinnen’. Patriotisch-nationales Frauenhandeln in der Zeit der antinapoleonischen Kriege,” in
Nation, Politik und Geschlecht. Frauenbewegungen und Nationalismus in der Moderne, ed. Ute Planert,
Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 2000, 86-112.
“Familie – Staat – Nation. Das aufklärerische Projekt der ‘Bürgergesellschaft’ in geschlechtergeschichtlicher
Perspektive,” in Europäische Zivilgesellschaft in Ost und West. Begriff, Geschichte, Chancen, eds. Manfred
Hildermeier, Jürgen Kocka and Christoph Conrad, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 2000, 57-84.
“‘A Valorous Volk Family’: The Nation, the Military, and the Gender Order in Prussia in the Time of the
Anti-Napoleonic Wars, 1806-15,” in Gendered Nations. Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth
Century, eds. Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann and Catherine Hall, Oxford and New York, 2000, 179-205.
“Venus und Mars. Reflexionen zu einer Geschlechtergeschichte von Militär und Krieg,” in Militär - Gewalt -
Geschlechterverhältnis. Dokumentation einer Vortragsreihe, eds. Christine Eifler and Frauenbündnis Projekt
Osnabrück, Osnabrück, 1999, 8-41 (Reprint).
“Venus und Mars. Reflexionen zu einer Geschlechtergeschichte von Militär und Krieg,” in Landsknechte,
Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger. Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel, eds.
Karen Hagemann and Ralf Pröve, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 1998, 13-50.

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“Der ‘Bürger’ als ‘Nationalkrieger’. Entwürfe von Militär, Nation und Männlichkeit in der Zeit der Freiheitskriege,”
in Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger. Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im
historischen Wandel, eds. Karen Hagemann and Ralf Pröve, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 1998, 74-102.
“Heldenmütter, Kriegerbräute und Amazonen: Entwürfe ‘patriotischer Weiblichkeit’ in Preußen zur Zeit der
Freiheitskriege,” in Militär und bürgerliche Gesellschaft, ed. Ute Frevert, Stuttgart, 1997, 174-200.
“Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterverhältnisse. Untersuchungen, Überlegungen und Fragen zur Militärgeschichte
der Frühen Neuzeit,” in Klio in Uniform. Probleme und Perspektiven einer modernen Militärgeschichte
der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Ralf Pröve, Cologne and Vienna, 1997, 35-88.
“Alltäglicher Arbeitswechsel. Arbeitsmarktchancen, Arbeitserfahrung und Arbeitsmarktverhalten von Hamburger
Arbeiterinnen in den 1920er Jahren,” in Mobilität, Stabilität und Flexibilität, Arbeitsmarktstrategien
von Unternehmern und Beschäftigten in Deutschland und Frankreich im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, eds. Carola
Sachse and Sylvie Schweitzer, Bochum, 1996, 99-116.
“‘Heran, heran zu Sieg oder Tod!’ Entwürfe patriotisch-wehrhafter Männlichkeit zur Zeit der Befreiungskriege,”
in Männergeschichte - Geschlechtergeschichte. Männlichkeit im Wandel der Moderne, ed. Thomas
Kühne, Munich, 1996, 51-69.
“Ausbildung für die ‘weibliche Doppelrolle’. Berufswünsche, Berufswahl und Berufschancen von Volksschülerinnen
in der Weimarer Republik,” in Geschlechterhierarchie und Arbeitsteilung. Zur Geschichte
ungleicher Erwerbschancen von Männern und Frauen, ed. Karin Hausen, Göttingen, 1993, 214-235.
“Der ‘Traumberuf’ der Kontoristin. Wunschbilder und Wirklichkeiten weiblicher Büroarbeit in der Weimarer
Republik,” in Elisabeth v. Dücker, Karin Haist and Ursula Schneider (eds): Europa im Zeitalter des Industrialismus.
Zur “Geschichte von unten” im europäischen Vergleich, Hamburg, 1993, 187-198.
“Feindliche Schwestern? Bürgerliche und proletarische Frauenbewegung Hamburgs im Kaiserreich,” in “Heil
über dir, Hammonia.” Hamburg im 19. Jahrhundert. Kultur, Geschichte, Politik, eds. Inge Stephan and Hans-
Günter Winter, Hamburg, 1992, 345-368.
“Frauenprotest und Männerdemonstrationen. Zum geschlechtsspezifischen Aktions- und Demonstrationsverhalten
im großstädtischen Arbeitermilieu der Weimarer Republik,” in Symbolische Gebräuche und Praktiken
der Aneignung städtischen Raumes, ed. Bernd-Jürgen Warneken, Frankfurt a.M. and New York, 1991, 202-
230.
“‘Wir hatten mehr Notjahre als reichliche Jahre...’ Lebenshaltung und Hausarbeit Hamburger Arbeiterfamilien
in der Weimarer Republik,” in Arbeiter im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Klaus Tenfelde, Stuttgart, 1991, 200-240.
“‘Ich glaub’ nicht, daß ich Wichtiges zu erzählen hab’ ...’ Oral History und historische Frauenforschung,” in
Oral History. Mündlich erfragte Geschichte, ed. Herwart Vorländer, Göttingen, 1990, 29-48.
“‘Wir Frauen der Arbeit marschieren mit!’. Frauen in der Hamburger Arbeiterbewegung. 1918 - 1933,”
in:”Wir sind die Kraft.” Arbeiterbewegung in Hamburg von den Anfängen bis 1945, eds. Ulrich Bauche,
Ludwig Eiber, Ursula Wamser and Wilfried Weinke, Hamburg, 1988, 203-231.
“Ausbildung von Arbeitertöchtern. Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts,” 45-47; und “Mangelnde Gleichberechtigung
der Sozialdemokratinnen,” 345f, in: Frauen. Ein historisches Lesebuch, ed. Andrea van Dülmen,
Munich, 1988.
“‘Abbau der Doppelverdiener!’ - Ideologie und Realität von Frauenarbeit in der Wirtschaftskrise,” in Rund
um die Uhr. Frauenalltag in Stadt und Land zwischen Erwerbsarbeit, Erwerbslosigkeit und Hausarbeit. 3 rd
conference of the Kommission Frauenforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, 2 - 5 June
1988, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie Marburg, Marburg, 1988, 197-220.
“Erziehung für den ‘weiblichen Hauptberuf’. Der Hauswirtschaftsunterricht für Mädchen an Hamburgs
Volks- und Berufsschulen,” 252-272;
“Die erste Oberschulrätin Hamburgs. Emmy Beckmann,” 342-350;
“Wegbereiterin der Berufsschulausbildung für Mädchen. Olga Essig,” 356-360;
in: “Der Traum von der freien Schule.” Schule und Schulpolitik in der Weimarer Republik, eds. Hans-Peter de
Lorent and Volker Ullrich, Hamburg, 1988.

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“‘Equal but not the Same’: The Social Democratic Women’s Movement in the Weimar Republic,” in Bernstein
to Brandt. A Short History of German Social Democracy, ed. Roger Fletcher, London, 1987, 133-143.
“‘Wir jungen Frauen fühlten uns wirklich gleichberechtigt...’ Arbeiterfrauen,” in Die Arbeiter. Lebensformen,
Alltag und Kultur von der Frühindustrialisierung bis zum ‘Wirtschaftswunder’, ed. Wolfgang Ruppert,
Munich, 1986, 69-78.
“Gleiche Rechte - gleiche Pflichten? Frauenalltag und Frauenbewegung in der Weimarer Republik. 1918 -
1933,” in Hammonias Töchter. Frauen und Frauenbewegung in Hamburgs Geschichte, Hamburg Porträt, No.
21, 1985, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte (5 pp.).
“‘Endlich auch das Frauenwahlrecht!’ Über die Anfänge des Kampfes um die ‘staatsbürgerliche’ Gleichberechtigung
der Frauen,” in Geschichte der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft. 125 Jahre gewähltes Parlament,
eds. Manfred Asendorf, Franklin Kopitzsch, Winfried Steffani, Walter Tormin, Berlin, 1984, 135-144.
“Miedjes und andere erwerbstätige Frauenspersonen,” 115-118, “Die Hauptträgerin des Familienlebens ist die
Frau,” 255-260, “Ich hab schon früh bei fremden Leuten arbeiten müssen,” 261-263, “Die Scheidung
zwischen den Prostituierten und dem anständigen Teil der Bevölkerung,” 267-69, “Aus dem keuschen Dämmer
des Hauses herausgezogen,” 270f, “Proletarierinnen auf zur Tat, damit der Tag des Wahlrechts naht!,”
272-274, in: Industriekultur in Hamburg. Des Deutschen Reiches Tor zur Welt, ed. Volker Plagemann, Munich,
1984.
“Frauen in der Hamburger SPD der Weimarer Republik - Anspruch und Wirklichkeit sozialdemokratischer
Frauenpolitik,” in Arbeiter in Hamburg. Unterschichten, Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung seit dem ausgehenden
18. Jahrhundert, eds. Arno Herzig, Dieter Langewiesche and Arnold Sywottek, Hamburg, 1983, 443-455.
“‘Die Frauenerwerbsarbeit ist das gute Recht der Frau ...’,” 37-41, “‘Neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen ...’
Wie die ‘Erwerbslosen-Selbsthilfe-Küche’ Jarrestraße entstand,” 54f, “‘Arbeiterwohlfahrt ist Selbsthilfe der
Arbeiterschaft’,” 104-110, “‘Politik war Männersache’. Die Frauen kämpften anders,” 145-168, in Vorwärtsund
nicht vergessen. Arbeiterkultur in Hamburg um 1930. Materialien zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik,
“Projektgruppe Arbeiterkultur Hamburg” im Auftrag der Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg,
Berlin, 1982.
With Brigitte Söllner, “‘Denn der Mann hat gesagt: Es genügt, wenn ich in der Partei bin’. Die sozialdemokratische
Frauenbewegung Hamburgs in der Weimarer Republik,” in Das andere Hamburg. Freiheitliche
Bestrebungen in der Hansestadt seit dem Spätmittelalter, ed. Jörg Berlin, Cologne, 1981, 235-262.
Forthcoming:
“Literaturmarkt, Zensur und Meinungsmobilisierung: Die politische Presse Preußens zur Zeit der Napoleonischen
Kriege,” in Agenten der Öffentlichkeit. Theater und Medien im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. Maike Wagner,
Bielefeld, 2012.
Not included are reviews and newspaper articles.

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Public Lectures
VII. Public Lectures, Workshops and Conferences
Since 1982: Numerous public lectures in Germany (among other places at the GDR Academy of Sciences, the
Free University of Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the
Universities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Cologne, Halle, Hamburg, Hannover, Konstanz, Münster, Osnabrück,
Potsdam, Trier, and Tübingen, various educational and cultural institutions in Berlin, Bonn,
Bremen, Hamburg and Marburg), in Canada (University of Toronto, York University), in Finland
(University of Helsinki), Norway (at the University of Bergen), in Sweden (at the Universities of
Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, and Uppsala), and in the USA (Binghamton University, City University
of New York, Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Illinois, University of Iowa,
University of Main, University of Minneapolis, Princeton University, Penn State University, and University
of Wisconsin).
UNC Workshop and Seminar Series
Autumn 2005 - spring 2011: UNC workshop series on “Gender, Politics and Culture in Europe and beyond,”
organizer in co-operation with Prof. Chad Bryant (UNC Chapel Hill). Website:
http://www.unc.edu/gpc/
Since spring 2006: “Research Triangle Seminar Series on the History of Military, War and Society,” organizer
in co-operation with Prof. Dirk Bönker and Prof. Adriane Lentz-Smith (Duke University), Prof.
Susanne Lee (NC State), and Prof. Wayne Lee (UNC Chapel Hill). Website:
http://www.unc.edu/mhss/
Since fall 2007: “North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series,” organizer and speaker in
cooperation with Prof. Bill Donahue (Duke University) and Prof. Konrad Jarausch (UNC Chapel Hill).
Website: http://www.unc.edu/ncgs/
Since fall 2011: Interdisciplinary Duke-UNC seminar and workshop series on “Gender, War and Culture,”
organizer and speaker in co-operation with Prof. Dirk Bönker (Duke University), Prof. Annegret Fauser
and Prof. Ariana Vigil (UNC Chapel Hill). Website: http://gwc.web.unc.edu/
Workshop, Conference and Session Organization
11-13 September 2014, Durham, NC:
Workshop 2 of the Workshop Series “Gender, War and the Western World, 1650-Present: An Interdisciplinary
and Transatlantic Project”: “Gender, War and Culture: From the Age oft the World Wars
(1910s-1940s) to the Cold War, Anti-Colonial Struggle to the Wars of Globalization (1940s-Present).”
Organization with Dr. Dirk Bönker, Duke University. Main conveners and sponsors: Duke University,
German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

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20 – 22 February 2014, Chapel Hill. NC:
Workshop 1 of the Workshop Series “Gender, War and the Western World, 1650-Present: An Interdisciplinary
and Transatlantic Project”: “Gender, War and Culture: From Colonial Conquest and
Standing Armies to Revolutionary Wars (1650s-1830s): To the Wars of Nations and Empires (1830s-
1910s).” Main conveners and sponsors: Duke University, German Historical Institute, Washington,
D.C. and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
30 May – 1 June 2013, London:
Joint International (Post) Graduate Workshop and Conference “War, Demobilization and Memory:
The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions.” Organization with Dr. Michael Rowe, Kings
College London. Conveners and sponsors: King’s College London, Department of History and Department
of War Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History and The
Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and The Winston House London, College of Arts & Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Website: http://wdm.web.unc.edu/
7-10 October 2010, Oakland, CA:
German Studies Association (GSA) - Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference. Organization of the Panel:
Stabilization, Dissolution, and Reform: The Male-Breadwinner Family Model in (West) German Policy
since the 1960s.
Paper: Segregation by Education: The West-German Half-day Policy for Child Care, Preschool and
Primary Schools since the 1960s.
25 – 27 February 2010, Charleston, SC:
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, together with Denise Z. Davidson (Georgia State
University, History Department) organization of a series of panels on “Gendering the Revolutionary
Era, 1750-1850 - Transatlantic Perspectives”.
Roundtable: Gendering the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 - Comparative Perspectives and moderate a
discussion
29 – 31 May, 2008, Washington D.C.:
International and Interdisciplinary Conference “Gender and the long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the
United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989”, conference to be held at the German Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C., convener together with Sonya Michel (University of Maryland, College
Park) and Corinna Unger (German Historical Institute, Washington)
11 – 13 October 2007, Mannheim:
International and Interdisciplinary Conference “Experience, Memory and Media: Transmitting the
Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in 19 th and 20 th Century Europe,” organization together with Dr.
Ruth Leiserowitz and Dr. Kirstin Schäfer (Free University of Berlin), and Prof. Erich Pelzer (University
of Mannheim). Sponsored by the University of Mannheim, the German Research Foundation, the
Center for French Studies at the Free University of Berlin and the Richter Media Group.
17 – 19 May, 2007, Chapel Hill:
International Conference “Gender, War and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic
Comparisons, 1775 – 1820,” main conveners UNC at Chapel Hill, German Historical Institute
Washington D.C. and Duke University.

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1 - 3 March, 2007, Cologne:
International and Interdisciplinary Conference “The German Half-Day Model: A European Sonderweg?
The ‘Time Politics’ of Child Care, Pre School and Elementary School Education in Post-War
Europe,” organized together with Prof. Christina Allemann-Ghionda (University of Cologne, Department
of Education) and Prof. Konrad Jarausch (Center for Research on Contemporary History,
Potsdam), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research
of the FRG.
Paper: “A West German ‘Sonderweg’?: Women, Work, and the ‘Time Politics’ of Public Education”
28 September – 1 October, 2006, Pittsburgh:
Thirtieth Annual GSA Conference,
Panel: “War Stories: Popular Memories of the Napoleonic Wars in the Long Nineteenth Century,” coorganization
with Katherine Aaslestad (West Virginia University), commentator.
31 March – 1 April, 2006, Potsdam:
Interdisciplinary Workshop “Welfare State Regimes, Public Education and Child Care - Theoretical
Concepts for a Comparison of East and West”, organized together with Prof. Christina Allemann-
Ghionda (University of Cologne, Department of Eduction) and Prof. Konrad Jarausch (Center for Research
on Contemporary History, Potsdam), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
24 – 25 February, 2006, London:
Joint Workshop “War Experiences and Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Contemporary
Perception”, organized together with Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz (BKVGE, FU Berlin) as part of
the project “Nations, Border, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences
and Memory” in co-operation with the German Historical Institute London, funded by the GHI,
the German Research Foundation and the Art and Humanities Research Council.
Paper: “Men and Women in Wartime: Gendered Experiences of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars – A Case
Study”
5 – 8 January, 2006, Philadelphia:
120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,
Roundtable: “Women, Nation and Patriotism in the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic
France,” organized together with Katherine Aaslestadt (West Virginia University);
Paper: “Heroic Virgins and Male Patriots: Female soldiers in the patriotic discourse during the Prussian
Wars of Liberation.”
11 – 12 November, 2005, Berlin:
Workshop: “The Experiences and Memories of War in European Comparison: (Trans)national and
Interdisciplinary Approaches,” organized together with PD. Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper (BKVGE, FU Berlin)
and Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz (BKVGE, FU Berlin) as part of the project “Nations, Border, Identities:
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences and Memory”, funded by the German
Research Foundation and the Art and Humanities Research Council.
28 September – 2 October, 2005, Milwaukee:
Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association,
Panel “Between Collaboration and Resistances: Different Experiences of the Napoleonic Wars in Central
Europe,” organized together with Katherine Aaslestadt (West Virginia University);
Paper: “A Prussian ‚Sonderweg’? Experiences of French Occupation and Patriotic Mobilization in
Prussia.”

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2 – 5 June 2005, Scripps College, Claremont, California:
Member of the program committee of the 13th Berkshire Conference on Women's History “Sin
Frontera: Women’s Histories, Global Conversations”, to be held at Scripps College, Southern California.
Panel: “Gendering trans/national historiographies: similarities and differences in comparison.”
Paper: “From the Margins to the Mainstream? Women’s and Gender History in Germany.”
1 November 2004, Potsdam:
Workshop “The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: New Approaches and Future Questions of Research”
at the Military History Research Institute (MGFA) organized together with Prof. Beatrice
Heuser (MGFA) and the European research network “Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary
and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences and Memories
6 – 10 October 2004, Washington D.C.:
Panel at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference der German Studies Association in Washington, D.C.:
“Kriege beenden: Semantiken der Befriedung deutscher Nachkriegsgesellschaften im Vergleich”, organizer
together with HD Dr. Christian Jansen (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Paper: Die Zivilisierung des Bürger: Semantische Strategien der gesellschaftlichen Befriedung nach
den Antinapoleonischen Kriegen
9 – 11 July 2004, Berlin:
Interdisciplinary Conference at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) of the WZB Working
Group “Civil Society: Historical and Comparative Perspectives” on the theme: “Civil Society and
Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives”
24 – 27 March 2004, Berlin:
Fifth European Social Science History Conference Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, network
“Women/Gender”, together with Prof. Sonya Michel (University of Maryland) organizer of an accepted
panel on: “States - Children - Families: The Politics of Public education in Post-War Europe.
East-West-Comparisons”.
Paper: Father state and his children: the politics of public education - comparing the two Germanies
8 – 11 January 2004, Washington D.C.:
118th Annual Meeting of the AHA, Washington, D.C. on “War and Peace: History and the Dynamics
of Human Conflict and Cooperation”, organizer of an accepted session on “Citizens and Warriors:
Concepts and Representations of Masculinity and Citizenship in the Period of Wars from 1792-1815”.
Paper: The first citizen of his state. Representations of monarchic masculinity in the period of the
Prussian Antinapoleonic Wars, 1806-15
10 – 11 October, 2003, Reinbek/Hamburg:
Annual conference of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V. in co-operation with the Otto-von-
Bismarck-Stiftung and the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung on “Soldat und Gesellschaft. Biographien
und Selbstzeugnisse in der Militärgeschichte”, organization in co-operation with Prof. Stig
Förster (University of Bern) and Dr. Michael Epkenhaus (Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung).
Paper: Biographien und Selbstzeugnisse in der Militärgeschichte – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
3 – 5 July 2003, Trier:
International and Interdisciplinary Symposium Negotiating Citizenship: Concepts and Representations
of masculinity in the Creation of Modern Western Political Culture (1763-1914) at the University
Trier, organization in co-operation with Dr. Stefan Dudink (Katholike Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands),
Prof. Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhof und Prof. Helga Schnabel-Schüle (both University of Trier).

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Paper: The first citizen of his state. Representations of monarchic masculinity in the period of the
Prussian Antinapoleonic Wars, 1806-15
Funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation and the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation
9 – 10 May 2003, Berlin:
Interdisciplinary Colloquium Pazifismus/PazifistInnen. Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als
Geschlechterforschung of the Centre for Interdisziplinary Studies on Women and Gender at the TU
Berlin, organization in co-operation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Arbeitskreis für Friedensund
Konfliktforschung and the Arbeitskreis historische Friedensforschung.
Funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
21 – 23 March 2003, Toronto:
German-American Colloquium Gendering Modern German History: Rewritings of the Mainstream
(19th-20th Centuries) at the University of Toronto, organization in co-operation with the Joint German
European Initiative at the Munk Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto and the
German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Paper: Military, War and the Mainstream. Gendering Modern German Military History.
Funded by the DAAD, the GHI and the University of Toronto.
7 June 2002, Berlin:
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender TU Berlin: Nach – Kriegserfahrungen:
Frauen und Männer, 1945 – 1949. Workshop.
26 – 29 September 2000, Aachen:
Deutscher Historikertag, organizer and chair panel: Kriegsfolgen - Kriegsbewältigungen -
Männlichkeiten: Die kulturelle Bearbeitung von Kriegen in der deutschen Geschichte des 19. und 20.
Jahrhunderts.
Paper: Fallen Hereos. The Cult of the Death for the Fatherland in Prussia during and after the Wars of
Liberation
Funded by the German Research Foundation.
6 – 13 August 2000, Oslo:
together with Dr. Stefan Dudink (Katholike Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands), organizer of the
theme: Masculinity as practice and representation.XIX th International Congress of Historical Sciences.
15 – 16 October 1999, Berlin:
together with Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Marcus Funck M.A. (Department of History,
Technical University of Berlin), Colloquium: Geschlechter - Kriege: Militär, Krieg und
Geschlechterverhältnisse, 1914-1949 (Gender - Wars: The Military, War and Gender, 1914-1949), organized
by the Military History Study Group (University of Freiburg) and the Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies on Women and Gender at the Technical University of Berlin.
Funded by the German Research Foundation.
31 October 1998, Berlin:
together with Dr. Ulrike Weckel (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender, Technical
University of Berlin), Workshop: Women between the Worlds: Gendered Cultural Mixture with
Prof. Natalie Zemon Davis (Princeton University, USA / University of Toronto, Canada) and Prof.
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25 – 28 March 1998, Berlin:
together with Prof. Dr. Ida Blom (University of Bergen, Norway), Conference: Gendered Nations.
Nationalisms and Gender Order in the long 19 th Century - International Comparisons, organized by
the Einstein Forum Potsdam and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender at the
Technical University of Berlin.
Paper: The formation of a manful and valorous nation: Prussia in the age of the anti-Napoleonic
uprising.
Funded by the German Research Foundation, the Hans Böckler Foundation, the Heinrich Böll
Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the British Council, and the Technical University of Berlin.
7 – 8 November 1997, Berlin:
together with Dr. Ralf Pröve (Humboldt University of Berlin), Colloquium: Militär, Krieg und
Geschlechterverhältnisse im historischen Wandel (17. - 19. Jahrhundert), organized by the Study
Group on the Military and Society in Early Modern History) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
on Women and Gender at the Technical University of Berlin.
Paper: Militärgeschichte als Geschlechtergeschichte. Eine Einführung (A Gendered Military History.
An Introduction).
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
21 – 24 November 1996, Stockholm:
together with Dr. Ulla Wikander (University of Uppsala, Sweden), First German-Nordic Conference
on Gender History on The Construction of Gender in the Long Nineteenth Century: German-Nordic
Comparison.
Paper: Of 'Manly Valor' and 'German Honor'. Nation, War and Masculinity in the Age of the Prussian
Uprising against Napoleon.
Funded by the Swedish Council for Human Studies.
31 May – 1 June 1996, Berlin:
together with Regine Bigga (Department of Education, Technical University of Berlin) and Dr.
Claudia Gather (Department of Sociology, Free University of Berlin), Interdisciplinary Colloquium:
Gender Hierarchy and the Division of Labour in Current Research at the Technical University of Berlin.
Funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation.
8 – 11 February 1995, Bad Homburg:
Conference: The Politics of Social Welfare and the Rationalization of the Everyday Life: The United
States and Germany during the Interwar Years, co-chaired and co-organized by Prof. Alice Kessler-
Harris (Rutgers University, USA) and Prof. Elizabeth Faue (University of Michigan, USA).
Paper: Rationalizing Family Work: Municipal Family Welfare and Urban Working-Class Mothers in
Germany.
Funded by the Werner Reimers Foundation
13 – 14 January 1995, Berlin:
Colloquium of the Department of History, Technical University of Berlin: Victims and (Co-
)Perpetrators under National Socialism: Recent Scholarship on Women’s Involvement in Resistance
and Persecution.

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5 – 7 May 1994, Bad Homburg:
together with Prof. Karin Hausen on behalf of the Task Force on Women’s History, 3 rd Colloquium for
Doctoral Candidates on Women’s History and Gender History: Women’s Work and Men’s Work in the
Process of Vocational Qualification and Professionalization.
Funded by the Werner Reimers Foundation.
5 – 6 June 1992, Berlin:
Colloquium of the Department of History, Technical University of Berlin: Gender History - Men’s
History.
Conference Contributions
21-23 February 2013, Ft. Worth, Texas:
2013 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.
Keynote: Heroes, Horror and Hunger: The Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 - Experiences and Memories
30 November – 2 December 2013, Landau, Germany:
International and Multidisciplinary Conference “Political Masculinities in Literature and Culture:
from Early Modernism to Today”. Conveners: University of Koblenz-Landau and University of Vienna.
Keynote: Forging Men: Masculinities, Politics and War in a Transatlantic Perspective, 1750-1850.
8-9 September 2011, Lexington, KY:
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender and War at the University of Kenntucky, Lexington.
Keynote: War and Gender in the Age of the World Wars: Reflections on the History and Memory of
German Women's War Service in the Third Reich.
28-30 July 2011, Munich:
Interdisciplinary Conference at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on Agenten der Öffentlichkeit.
Theater und Medien im 19. Jahrhundert (1800-1850).
Paper on: Literaturmarkt, Zensur und Meinungsmobilisierung: Die politische Presse in Preußen zur
Zeit der Napoleonischen Kriege.
3-5 March 2011, Tallahassee, FL:
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Panel Soldiers, War, and Domestic Terrorism in
German Central Europe after 1815.
Comment.
10 – 12 September 2009, Giessen:
Conference „Militärische Erinnerungskulturen vom 14. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert“.
Panel moderation.
19 – 21 February 2009, Savannah, GA:
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850: Round Table: Wars of Liberation.
Paper: The Wars of 1813-15 in German Central Europe: War, Society and Culture
13 – 15 November 2008, Jena:
Annual Meeting Meeting of the Military History Working Committee: „Soldatinnen”.
Final Round Table

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16 – 18 May, 2008, York:
International Conference „War, Empire and Slavery 1790-1820,” organized by the AHRC-DFG research
group “Nations, Border, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences
and Memory.”
Final Round Table
21 – 23 February 2008, Helsinki:
International conference “Europe in Upheavel - The Era of the Napoleonic Wars,” organized by the
Finnish Historical Society, the Prime Ministers Office and the 1809 Committee, and the Nordic Commission
of Military History.
Keynote lecture: The Military and Masculinity: Gendering the History of the French Wars, 1792–1815
19 – 20 October, 2006, London:
International conference “Clash of Empires: Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire,
1806-2006,” German Historical Institute, London,
Paper: Beyond Cooperation and Resistance: Civilian Experiences of the Napoleonic Wars in Prussia –
Some Reflections on 1806 and its Aftermath.
2 – 4 March, 2006, Atlanta:
36th Annual Meeting of the “Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850”.
Panel: “Gender, Memory, and War in Napoleonic Europe”.
Paper: Gendered War Memories. The French Occupation of Hamburg in 1813-14 in Autobiographical
Documents.
Round Table: 1806 as a Turning Point?
9 – 12 March 2005, Washington D.C.:
International conference “War in an Age of Revolution: The Wars of American Independence and the
French revolution, 1775 – 1815”, organized by the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C.,
Paper: Military and Masculinity: Gendering the History of the French War, 1792–1815
3 – 5 March 2005, Wassenaar:
International conference “Family and Civil Society”, organized by the European Civil Society Network.
Paper: Drawing Gendered Boundaries Civil Society, the Family and the Enlightened Gender Order
21 – 24 June 2004, Verona:
International symposium “Napoleon and the Empire”, sponsored by the University of Verona, Italy,
and the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Paper: Francophobia and Patriotism: Images of Napoleon and 'the French' in Prussia and Northern
Germany at the Period of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars, 1806-1815
30 October – 1 November 2003, Erfurt:
Jahrestagung der Ranke-Gesellschaft “Gefühl und Kalkül. Der Einfluss von Emotionen auf die Politik
des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts”.
Paper: Aus Liebe zum Vaterland. Liebe und Hass im frühen deutschen Nationalismus.
3 – 5 October 2003, Freyberg:
Symposium “F.L. Jahn und die Gesellschaften der Turner. Wirkungsfelder, Verpflechtungen und
Gruppenpolitik” organized by the Jahn-Museum Freyberg.
Round table on: “Über die Schwierigkeiten, “ein deutscher Mann zu werden und es, geworden zu bleiben”

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28 February – 1 March 2003, Vancouver:
“Der Frauen Zustand ist beklagenswert”: Deplorable States: Women in German Literature and Culture,
1770-1830. Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Tagung des Centre for European der University
of British Columbia
Paper: German Heroines: Patriotic National Women’s Activities during and after the Wars of Liberation,
1813-15.
23– 25 May 2002, Krefeld:
University of Münster / Textile Museum Krefeld: Uniformen fürs Zivile. Zur Geschichte unifomer
Kleidung als symbolischer Kommunikation. International and Interdiciplinary Conference r
Paper: Zeichen von Patriotismus. Zur symbolischen Bedeutung der Nationaltracht in der Zeit vor und
während der Antinapoleonischen Kriege
5 – 28 April 2002, Vienna:
University of Vienna: Die Spuren der Romantik in Wien - International Symposium.
Paper: Heimatlosigkeit und Patriotismus. Männlichkeitsvorstellungen ‚politischer Romantiker‘ in der
Zeit der Antinapoleonischen Kriege.
26 – 28 September 2001, Dublin:
International Conference, Trinity College Dublin: Demobilizing the Mind. Culture, Politics and the
Legacy of the Great War, 1919-1933.
Comment: ‚War Cultures‘ after the War.
28 – 30 June 2001, Tampere:
History of Concepts Group Annual Conference, University of Tampere: Rhetoric and Conceptual
Change.
Paper: Male and Female Patriots. Gendering the Early Concept of the German Nation.
18 – 20 May 2001, Minneapolis:
International Conference in European Studies of the European Studies Consortium, University of Minnesota:
Manifestations of National Identity in Modern Europe.
Keynote speaker: Nation - State - Family: The Nationalization of the Enlightened “Society of Citizens”.
16 – 17 March 2001, Potsdam:
Annual conference of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V. in cooperation with Militärgeschichtliches
Forschungsamt Potsdam and chair of Militärgeschichte at the University of Potsdam: Operationsgeschichte
und moderne Historiographie. Ein Widerspruch?
Paper: Operationsgeschichte und Geschlechtergeschichte.
16 February 2001, New Haven:
Colloquium of the Department for Politics and the Department for Asian Studies, Yale University: The
Political Economy of Child Care: Asia, Europe and the United States in Comparison.
Paper: Public Education in East and West Germany.
29 September – 1 October 1997, Hofgeismar:
Annual conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur preußischen Geschichte e.V.: Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft
und Bildung. Zur Sozialgeschichte Preußens vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.
Paper : Nation, Militär und Geschlecht in Preußen in den Jahren der antinapoleonischen Erhebung.

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9 June 1997, Bonn:
Hearing of the Parlamentary Party of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: Women and Remilitarization.
Paper: Nation, Militär und Geschlechterordnung. Reflexionen zur Genese des modernen deutschen
Nationalismus.
30 October – 1 November 1996, Ravensbrück / Fürstenberg:
Colloquium of the Einstein Forum and the Memorial Ravensbrück: New Research on the History of the
Women's Concentration Camp Ravensbrück.
Chair and Moderation of the Panel: Gender and Holocaust.
3 – 5 November 1995, Essex:
Workshop of the Gender and Culture project, Central European University in Budapest, and the Inter-
Regional Faculty Seminar on Gender and Culture, University of Essex: Gender and Nationalism.
Paper: Nation, War and Masculinity. The Case of Prussia in the Age of the Antinapoleonic Uprising.
26 August – 3 September 1995, Montreal:
19 th Conference of the International Historical Association, Major Theme II: Women, Men, and
Historical Change: Case Studies on the Impact of Gender History.
Paper: Nation, War and Gender in the Age of the Prussian Uprising against Napoleon.
23 – 25 September 1994, New York:
Conference of the Department of History, Columbia University: Gender and Modernity in the Era of
Rationalization, Panel 7: Learning to be ‘rational’.
Paper: Of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Housewives: Norms and Standards of Everyday Housework and the
Limits of Household Rationalization in the Urban Working Class Milieu of the Weimar Republic.
12 – 13 April 1994, Bad Homburg:
Conference of the Working Group on Modern Social History: The Military and Gender Relations in
the 19 th Century.
Paper: ‘Heran, heran zu Sieg oder Tod!’ Entwürfe patriotisch-wehrhafter Männlichkeit zur Zeit der
Befreiungskriege.
11 – 13 June 1993, Vassar College, N.Y.:
Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Panel: Creating the ‘New Woman’ in Sweden
and China in the 1930s.
Chair and Moderation of the Panel.
27 – 29 March 1992, Chicago:
Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Panel: Gender and Politics in Early 20 th -Century
Europe.
Paper: The ‘Women Question,’ Women’s Suffrage, and Political Modernization: Gender Relations in
the Social Democratic Labor Movement during the Weimar Republic.
13 – 12 March 1992, Lyon:
Fifth German-French Conference on the Comparative History of Industrial Societies: Mobility and
Stabilization. The Labour Market Strategies of Entrepreneurs and Employees.
Paper: Changer Chaque Jour De Travail: L’Emploi Des Ouvrieres De Hambourg Dans Les Annees
Vingt.
3 – 7 December 1990, Hamburg:
Conference of the Museum of Labour: Europe in the Industrial Age - History from Below in European
Comparison.

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Paper: Der ‘Traumberuf’ der Kontoristin. Wunschbilder und Wirklichkeiten weiblicher Büroarbeit in
der Weimarer Republik.
29 – 30 November 1990, Berlin:
Colloquium of the Department of History, Technical University of Berlin and the Institute of Economic
History (formerly GDR Academy of Sciences): Women’s Employment in the 19 th and 20 th Century.
Paper: Ausbildung für die weibliche Doppelrolle. Berufswünsche, Berufswahl und Berufschancen von
Volksschülerinnen in der Weimarer Republik.
4 – 7 October 1990, Stockholm:
International Symposium of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
The Construction of Sex/Gender - What is a Feminist Perspective?
Paper: Gender in Collective Action.
8 – 12 January 1990, Eyba, GDR:
18 th Conference of the Working Group on Productive Forces of the Institute for Economic History of
the GDR Academy of Sciences: Women’s Work in the 19 th and 20 th Century.
Paper: Erziehung für den weiblichen Hauptberuf. Der Hauswirtschaftsunterricht für Mädchen an
Hamburgs Volks- und Berufsschulen.
17 – 18 May 1989, Paris:
Round table organized by the CNRS and German Research Foundation: Symbolic Customs and Practices
in the Appropriation of Urban Space.
Paper: Frauenprotest und Männerdemonstrationen. Zum geschlechtsspezifischen Aktions- und Demonstrationsverhalten
im großstädtischen Arbeitermilieu der Weimarer Republik.
2 – 4 March 1989, Bad Homburg:
Conference of the Working Group on Modern Social History: Workers in the 20 th Century.
Paper: ‘Wir hatten mehr Notjahre als reichliche Jahre...’ Lebenshaltung und Hausarbeit Hamburger
Arbeiterfamilien in der Weimarer Republik.
2 – 5 June 1988, Marburg:
2 nd Conference of the Commission on Women’s Studies in Folklore Studies: Around the Clock:
Women’s Everyday Life in Town and Country – Paid Employment, Unemployment and Housework.
Paper: ‘Abbau der Doppelverdiener!’ - Ideologie und Realität von Frauenarbeit in der Wirtschaftskrise.
17 – 19 March 1988, Lancaster:
Conference of the History Department, University of Lancaster: Working Class Culture in Britain and
Germany.
Paper: Familienideale - Familienrealität. Zum Alltag sozialdemokratischer Arbeiterfamilien in der
Weimarer Republik.
6 November 1987, Hamburg:
Conference of the Association of Town, Regional and Land-use Planning, Regional Group North in
cooperation with the Hamburg Women’s Equality Office: Planning for Hamburg. Employment for
Women.
Paper: Die Stadt als Frauen-Raum. Erkundungen in der Hamburgischen Geschichte des 19. und 20.
Jahrhunderts.

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9 – 10 November 1985, Frankfurt a.M.:
Conference of the Working Group of Scholars at Museums in Hesse, Committee on Women in
Museums: Women in Museums.
Paper: Hammonias Töchter. Frauen und Frauenbewegung in Hamburgs Geschichte. Präsentation einer
Ausstellung im Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte.
2 – 4 November 1984, Tübingen:
First Conference of the Commission on Women’s Studies of the German Society for Folklore Studies.
Paper: Nicht nur ein Museum der Arbeiter. Frauengeschichte im Museum der Arbeit e.V. Hamburg.
4 – 6 February 1982, Hamburg:
First Conference of the Hamburg Working Group on Regional History on Workers in Hamburg: Lower
Classes, Workers and Labour Movement since the Late 19 th Century.
Paper: Frauen in der Hamburger SPD der Weimarer Republik - Anspruch und Wirklichkeit sozialdemokratischer
Frauenpolitik.
10 – 12 April 1981, Bielefeld:
Third German Conference of Women Historians.
Paper: Möglichkeiten und Probleme der Oral History für Projekte zur Frauengeschichte am Beispiel
meiner Arbeit zur sozialdemokratischen Frauenbewegung Hamburgs in der Weimarer Republik.
VIII. University Teaching
Graduate Students currently advised at the History Department of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Main advisor:
• Friederike Bruehoefener M.A.
• Brittany Lehman M.A. (co-advised with Prof. Konrad Jarausch)
• Jennifer Lynn M.A. (finished her dissertation in August 2012)
• Ali Rodriguez M.A.
• Alexandra Ruble, M.A. (finished her MA thesis in January 2012)
• Larissa Stiglich, B.A.
• Sarah Summers M.A. (co-advised with Prof. Konrad Jarausch) (finished her dissertation in April
2012)
Co-advisor:
• Marina Jones M.A. (main advisor: Prof. Konrad Jarausch)
• Mary E. Walters (main advisor: Prof. Wayne Lee, co-advisor: Prof. Klaus Larres)
Graduate Students at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of History, coadvised
with Prof. Etienne François, Center for French Studies at the FU Berlin,
Germany
• Wolfgang Koller M.A. (finished in April 2012)

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• Lars Peters M.A. (finished in November 2010)
• Maria Schultz M.A.
Courses taught at the History Department of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spring term 2013
HIST/WMST 259 (lecture course): Women and Gender in Europe, 18 - 20 C.
HIST 263H Honors Seminar: War and Gender in Movies: European Warfare in Twentieth Century
Feature Films
Fall term 2012:
HIST 089-001 (First Year Seminar): Women’s Voices: European History in Female Memory
HIST/WMST 730 (graduate course): Feminist and Gender Theory for Historians: A Theoretical and
Methodological Introduction
Spring term 2011:
HIST/WMST 259 (lecture course): Women and Gender in Europe, 18 - 20 C.
HIST 770 (graduate seminar): Readings in European Women’s and Gender History: 20 th Century History
Fall term 2010:
HIST 712: Modern European History Colloquium: Politics, Society and Culture in 19 th and 20 th Century
Europe
HIST 263H Honors Seminar: War and Gender in Movies: European Warfare in Twentieth Century
Feature Films
Spring term 2010:
HIST/WMST 259 (lecture course): Women and Gender in Europe, 18 - 20 C.
HIST 770 (graduate seminar): Readings in European Women’s and Gender History: 19 th Century History
Fall term 2009:
HIST/PWAD 268: Gateway Course for the Cluster: War, Revolution and Culture: Transatlantic Perspectives,
1750-1850
HIST 089-001 (First Year Seminar): Women’s Voices: European History in Female Memory
Fall term 2008 / Spring term 2009:
On leave.
Spring term 2008:
HIST/WMST 259 (lecture course): Women and Gender in Europe, 18 - 20 C.
HIST/WMST 725 (graduate seminar): Comparative/Global Gender History: Gender History and the
History of Masculinity in Comparative Perspective
Fall term 2007:
HIST 391 (undergraduate seminar in history): Gendering Modern German History, 19-20 C.
HIST/PWAD 517 (undergraduate / graduate seminar): Military, War and Gender in Comparative Perspective.
Germany and the United States

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Spring term 2007:
HIST/WMST 259 (lecture course): Women and Gender in Europe, 18 - 20 C.
HIST 712 (graduate seminar): Modern European History Colloquium: War, Politics and Culture in
20th Century Europe
Fall term 2006:
HIST/WMST 501 (undergraduate/graduate course): The Gender of Welfare – Comparative Perspectives,
19 – 20 C.
HIST/WMST 730 (graduate course): Feminist and Gender Theory for Historians: A Theoretical and
Methodological Introduction
Spring term 2006:
HIST/WMST 259 (lecture course): Women and Gender in Europe, 18 - 20 C.
HIST 490 (joint graduate / undergraduate course): Gender, Race, and Nation in Europe and beyond,
18 – 20 C.
Fall term 2005:
HIST 220 (graduate seminar): Readings in European Women’s and Gender History: Gender, Politics
and Citizenship in Modern European History
HIST 90 (undergraduate seminar in history): Gendering Modern German History, 19-20 C.
Courses taught at the History Department and Interdisciplinary Program for Postgraduate
Gender Studies of the University of Trier
Summer term 2003:
Lecture course: The Military, war and gender from 16 th to 20 th centuries
Seminar: Gender, identity and difference: Political: social and cultural nation building in transnational
comparison
Graduate workshop: The hidden sex: masculinities in interdisciplinary and international research
Courses thought at the History Department of the University of Toronto
Winter term 2003:
Upper-level undergraduate lecture course: State and Family – Men and Women: Gender in Modern
German History.
Fall term 2002:
Joint graduate/undergraduate seminar: Gender, Race and Nation: Rewritings of the History of Nations/Nationalisms
in Modern Europe and beyond.
Courses taught at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender at
the Technical University of Berlin
Summer semester 2000:
Vorlesung (lecture course): The Military, War and Gender in the Modern Age.
Hauptseminar: Schlüsselkinder - Rabenmütter - Wochenendväter: Work and Family as a Problem of
West German Economy and Policy.
Übung: Men - Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Introduction into the International Research.

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DoktorandInnencolloquium zur historischen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (colloquium for doctoral
students who work on women and gender history and want to discuss their own work).
Winter semester 1996/97:
Interdisziplinäres Forschungscolloquium (Interdisciplinary research colloquium together with Prof.
Karin Hausen): Gender and the Research on Sciences.
Summer semester 1996:
Interdisziplinäre Übung (Interdisciplinary reading course co-taught with Regine Bigga (Education,
Technical University of Berlin) and Claudia Gather (Sociology, Free University of Berlin)): Gender
Hierarchy and the Division of Labour. An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Research and Praxis.
Interdisciplinary research colloquium together with Prof. Karin Hausen: On the Cultural Construction
of Gender in the Modern Era.
Winter semester 1995/96:
Interdisciplinary reading course co-taught with Annette Dorgerloh (Art History, Humboldt University
of Berlin): Gender Imagery and Gender Relations in the Period of Revolutionary Upheavals, 1789-
1830.
Interdisciplinary research colloquium together with Prof. Karin Hausen: New Studies on Women and
Gender.
Summer semester 1995:
Interdisciplinary reading course co-taught with Dr. Bernd Nicolai (Art History, Technical University
of Berlin): Sacrifices on the Altar of the Fatherland: Gender Imagery in the National Cult of the Dead
in the 19 th Century.
Interdisciplinary research colloquium together with Prof. Karin Hausen: New Studies on Women and
Gender.
Courses taught at the Department of History, Technical University of Berlin
Winter semester 2001/02:
Hauptseminar (upper-level undergraduate seminar): History, Memory and Gender: The Wars of Liberation
in the Collective Remembrance of the German Nation (19 th and 20 th Century)
Winter semester 1994/95:
Proseminar (introductory undergraduate course): Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century):
The History of the Family in Germany, 1871-1933
Übung (reading course for upper-level undergraduates and graduates): Victims and (Co-)Perpetrators
in National Socialism. Recent Scholarship on Women’s Involvement in Resistance and Persecution.
Summer semester 1994:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): The Nation and Nationalism in
the Early 19 th Century.
Übung: Family Policy and Family Welfare in the Interwar Period in International Comparison.
Winter semester 1993/94:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): Women under National Socialism.
Übung: The Formation of Masculinity. Recent British and American Research on the Victorian Period.

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Summer semester 1992:
Übung: Historical Anthropology and the History of Mentalities. An Introduction to Theory and Methodology.
Winter semester 1991/92:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): (Social and Economic History):
Germany in the Vormärz, 1830-1848.
Reading course: Gender History - Men’s History. An Introduction to New Scholarship.
Winter semester 1990/91:
Übung: Gender and Class. An Introduction to Theory and Methodology of Anglo-American Scholarship.
Summer semester 1990:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): The Reform Era in Prussia, 1807-
1820.
Übung: International Comparisons: Gender Relations among the Nineteenth-Century Middle Classes.
Winter semester 1989/90:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): The History of the German Trade
Unions from the Beginning until 1933.
Übung: Exhibition project: Sexuality, Birth Control and Population Policy in the 20 th Century (working
title).
This course gave rise to the exhibition “Eine Frauensache. Frauenalltag und Geburtenpolitik 1919 -
1933” (A Women’s Matter. Everyday Life and Population Policy 1919-1933) which was shown from
21 May to 13 July 1990 at the Technical University of Berlin and then between 1990 and 1993 in 35
towns in the Federal Republic.
Summer semester 1989:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): The “long 1950s”. Society and
Politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1966.
Übung: Family planning, birth control and § 218 in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic.
Winter semester 1988/89:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): The Adenauer Era: Economy,
Society and Politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1963.
Übung: The Women’s Movement in West Germany. Genesis and Development since 1945.
Summer semester 1988:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): Economy, Society and Politics in
West Germany, 1945-1949.
Übung: The History of the German Women’s Movement and its Representation in the Television Series
“Unerhört” (with film presentations and discussions with the responsible producers and filmmakers).
Winter semester 1987/88:
Proseminar: Introduction to Modern History (Economic and Social History): The History of the Family
in Germany in the First Half of the 20 th Century.
Reading course: Women’s Employment and Labour Market Policy in the Weimar Republic.

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Summer semester 1987:
Übung: Introduction to Modern History (19 th and 20 th Century): Women’s Work, Women’s Emancipation
and Social Democracy in Imperial Germany.