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EDUCATION
TU Darmstadt/ École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris (EHESS)
Ph.D. in History with distinction (“summa cum laude”) within a binational framework (“Cotutelle”)
Free University Berlin
State examination in History and German
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Duke University, History Department, Durham, NC, USA
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, summer semester 2023
University of Bielefeld, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies
Research associate; Postdoctoral Scholar in the Research Training Group “Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being-in-the-World” since 06/2021
University of Erfurt, Germany, Department of North American History
Postdoctoral Fellow/ Lecturer 2019-2020; Member Contested Democracy research group since 2021
University of California, Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies Department, CA
Visiting Research Associate/ Gerda Henkel Fellow, 05-10-2019
Harvard University, History department, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Fellow/ DAAD Fellow 09-2018-04/2019
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Jewish Studies Program
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 05-08/2018
Vanderbilt University, Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, Nashville, TN
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar 08/2017-05/2018
Free University Berlin
Research associate (Postdoc), funded by Vanderbilt University Nashville/ Tennessee, 01-07/2017
Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt
Research associate (Doc), 2008-2011
Website:
https://verakallenberg.academia.edu
Kürzlich erschienen:
Kürzlich erschienen (open access):
Vera Kallenberg, Tomke König, Walter Erhart (Hg.), Geschlecht als Erfahrung. Theorien, Empirie, politische Praxis, Bielefeld: transcript (Geschlecht als Erfahrung, Bd. 2) 2024, 284 Seiten.
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6814-8
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6814-8/geschlecht-als-erfahrung/
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/b5/a1/c4/oa9783839468142EanQoCtqJLj8u.pdf
Vera Kallenberg, Rezension zu: Stengel, Katharina: Die Überlebenden vor Gericht. Auschwitz-Häftlinge als Zeugen in NS-Prozessen (1950–1976). Göttingen 2022 , ISBN 978-3-525-31740-2, In: H-Soz-Kult, 24.03.2023,
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-115610
“Neu gelesen: Gerda Lerner, Black Women in White America, New York (Pantheon Books) 1972.” WerkstattGeschichte, 2022:86, 151-155.
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WG86_151-155_Kallenberg_zu_Lerner.pdf
Monograph – Work In Progress [Habilitation project]
"Gerda Lerner & The Making of Women’s Experience": A History of Jewish Migrant Knowledge.
Book Projekt – Work In Progress
"Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) and Nora Kronstein-Rosen (1925-2013). Two Sisters between Austria, the USA, and Israel."
CURRENT RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
North American & Transatlantic/Transnational History (20.Jh.)
Contemporary History in Transregional Perspective
Modern European History (18-20 Jh.), with particular emphasis on Germany and France
"History of knowledge & historiography (esp. history of women’s and gender historiography, migrant knowledge, Jewish historiography & the historiography of the Shoah)''
Social movements in transregional perspective (esp. the Old Left & the New Left, women's movements, antiracist movements
Auto/Biography & Life Writing, especially with regard to Jewish biography, exile, and the Shoah
History of migrants, especially Jewish émigrés of German speaking descent in the US in the 20th century
European/transnational Jewish intellectual history, esp. Léon Poliakov, Hannah Arendt, Gerda Lerner
"Critiques of Anti-Black Racism and antisemitism in historical perspective''
History of Theories of intersectional approaches (esp. with regard to Jewishness, and antisemitism)
European legal-, social-, everyday-, and gender history since the 18th century, particular German-Jewish history