Charlie Knight holds a PhD from the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton where he remains an Honorary Fellow. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies at the School of Advanced…
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Professor Godela Weiss-Sussex’s main research interests lie in the culture and literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the following areas: women’s writing, the works of German-Jewish writers produced in Germany and in exile; multi- and translingualism; concepts of ‘Heimat’ and…
I work on the histories of National Socialism and the Holocaust, especially the role of ‘ordinary’ people in perpetrator societies, the role of visual culture in the spreading nad ‘naturalisation’ of Nazi ideologies, and on the way these histories shaped Jewish experiences and migrations.…
Dr Svenja Bethke is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Leicester and Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her research explores European and Jewish history in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on material culture…
Prof. Tim Grady is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Chester. He specialises in twentieth-century British and German history, including the First World War, German-Jewish experiences, and interwar fascism.
Prof. Christian Wiese is Martin Buber Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. His research focuses on modern Jewish history and philosophy.
Till van Rahden is a Full Professor of German and European Studies at the Université de Montréal where he held a Canada Research Chair from 2006 to 2016. He is also a Research Professor at Carleton University and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad…
Prof. Miri Rubin is a historian of medieval Europe whose research explores the religious cultures of 1100-1600, with focuses on community life, charity, and the Eucharist. Her work examines Jewish-Christian relations, gender, identity, and urban attitudes to strangers through interdisciplinary…
Prof. Dr. Rainer Liedtke is Professor of European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Universität Regensburg, specialising in comparative European, urban, Jewish, British history and the history of modern Greece.
Prof. Anthony Kauders is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Keele University. He specialises in German-Jewish history, antisemitism, and the history of psychology including psychoanalysis, social psychology, and hypnosis.
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Prof. Christina von Hodenberg is Director of the German Historical Institute London and Professor of European History at Queen Mary University of London. She specialises in political culture, popular protest, media history, gender regimes, and generations in modern Germany and Britain.
Prof. Neil Gregor is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Southampton. He specialises in art music in twentieth-century Germany, cultural histories of modern Germany, the Third Reich and Nazism, and minorities in German history.
Prof. Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the University of Oxford. She specialises in nineteenth-century European history, modern Jewish history, nationalism, philanthropy, and transnational religious movements.
Prof. Paul Franks is Professor of Philosophy and Judaism in Antiquity at Yale University. Specializes in Kant, German Idealism, Jewish Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of the human sciences.
Professor David Feldman is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He joined Birkbeck in 1994 after holding lectureships at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the…
Prof. Tobias Brinkmann is Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Pennsylvania State University. Social historian of modern Jewish history after 1800, focusing on migration processes in comparative and transnational frameworks, especially Jewish life in modern cities…
Prof Marion Aptroot is Professor of Yiddish Language and Literature at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. A leading expert in Yiddish studies, her research focuses on the development of Yiddish language, literature, and culture from the early modern period to the 20th century. Aptroot has…