Dr. Vera Kallenberg

Research associate (Postdoc), Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG), Bielefeld University

Vita

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

University of Bielefeld, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies
Since 06/2021 | Research associate; Postdoctoral Scholar in the Research Training Group “Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being-in-the-World”

University of Erfurt, Germany, Department of North American History
Postdoctoral Fellow/ Lecturer 2019-2020; Member Contested Democracy research group 2021

05/2019–10/2019 | University of California, Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies Department, CA
Visiting Research Associate/ Gerda Henkel Fellow

09/2018–04/2019 | Harvard University, History department, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Fellow/ DAAD Fellow

05/2018–08/2018 | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Jewish Studies Program
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow

08/2017–05/2018 | Vanderbilt University, Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, Nashville, TN
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar

01/2017–07/2017 | Free University Berlin
Research associate (Postdoc), funded by Vanderbilt University Nashville/ Tennessee

2008–2011 | Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt
Research associate (Doc)

 

Focus of Work

I am a historian working at the crossroads of Jewish studies, gender studies, North American studies, and European studies. Currently, I am a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Bielefeld University and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Research Training Group “Experiencing Gender. Constitution and Transformation of Being-in-the-World.”
I am particularly concerned with the relationship between intersectional experience and knowledge production in 20th-century feminist historiography, Jewish intellectual history, and critical thought. In the Research Training Group at Bielefeld University, I focus on intersectionality, experience, and knowledge production in historical perspective. Currently, I am working on the life and work of the pioneering women's historian Gerda Lerner (1920-2013).

Publications (selection)

Recently released:

https://werkstattgeschichte.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WG86_151-155_Kallenberg_zu_Lerner.pdf

“Neu gelesen: Gerda Lerner, Black Women in White America, New York (Pantheon Books) 1972.” WerkstattGeschichte, 2022:86, 151-155.

Books & Articles

“Jewishness, Gender, and Sexual violence before the Penal Court in the City Frankfurt am Main at the turn of the 19th Century.” Jewish Social Studies 2021, 26:2, 93-125.

Monograph Awarded the Arno Lustiger Prize 2019

Jüdinnen und Juden in der Frankfurter Strafjustiz, 1780-1814. Die Nicht-Einheit der jüdischenGeschichte, Göttingen: Wallstein (=Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden, 49/ Hamburg contributions to the history of German Jewry, 49, 464 pages), 2018. [Jews before the Frankfurt Penal Court, 1780-1814. Non-Unity in Jewish History].

Edited Anthology; with J. Meyer, and J.M. Müller

Intersectionality und Kritik. Neue Perspektiven für alte Fragen, Wiesbaden: VS, 2013 [Intersectionality and Critique. New perspectives to old questions.]

Websitelink to my Publications

Keywords

History of women’s and gender historiography
Feminist Theories & Transnational Feminist movements
Auto/Biography & Life Writing

Jewish women in the US in the 20th century

Jewish émigrés of German speaking descent in the US in the 20th century
German-Jewish intellectual history

Racism research and antisemitism research
History of Jewish historiography & the historiography of the Shoah
Intersectionality, Jewish history, and antisemitism

European-Jewish legal-, social-, and gender history since the 18th century

Casegroup

Languages and Cultural Studies, Art and Design