Dr. Vera Kallenberg

Areas of Research:

History of European-Jewish émigrés in the US, history of Jewish historians in the 20th century, history of historiography, especially the history of women’s history and feminist historiography, new biography research, the history of Black women’s history, Jewish intellectual history, modern European Jewish history since the 18th century (especially gender history, cultural history, everyday history, the history of minorities and marginalized groups), theories and methodologies in history

CV & Publications

Current project:

Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) & The Making of Women’s History. A Transnational biography

Completed projects:

Editor of the Volume “Origins of totalitarianism”/ “Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft” of the Hannah Arendt Complete Edition; responsible for Vol.1 about Antisemitism, as part of a cooperation project between Vanderbilt University, Nashville and Free University Berlin

Dissertation:

Extremely Common: Jews before the Frankfurt Penal Court (1780-1814); TU Darmstadt/EHESS Paris 2016.

Published as: Jüdinnen und Juden in der Frankfurter Strafjustiz (1780-1814). Die Nicht-Einheit der jüdischen Geschichte, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2018. https://bit.ly/2KQG6Gm

Honored with the Arno Lustiger Price 2019 for academic excellence in the field of german-jewish history by the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, as part of the Rosl und Paul Arnsberg Price.