Doris Kaufmann

Doris Kaufmann (born January 3, 1953 in Münster ) is a German historian .

Doris Kaufmann studied history and political science at the University of Münster , the Free University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin . From 1981 to 1983 she was a lecturer in women's history at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In 1983 Kaufmann received his doctorate from Reinhard Rürup and Karin Hausen at the TU Berlin with a thesis on Catholic milieu and politics in the final phase of the Weimar Republic . From 1984 to 1987 she was a research assistant at the University of Tübingen in a research project on women and Christianity in the first half of the 20th century . From 1992 to 1993 Kaufmann was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . In 1993, Kaufmann completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin with the thesis Enlightenment, Civil Self-Experience and the 'Invention' of Psychiatry in Germany, 1770-1850 . From 1993 to 1996 she was visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Tübingen, the University of Jena and the University of Bern . From 1995 to 1997 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From the beginning of 1998 to March 2000 she worked in the Max Planck Society as project manager of the research program History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism . Since March 2000, Kaufmann has been teaching the history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Bremen .

Her main research interests are the history of culture and science, in particular the history of natural sciences and psychiatry under National Socialism , the history of human sciences since the 18th century, the cultural and social history of deviance and deviation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Kaufmann was on the advisory board of the journal Feminist Studies .

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Monographs

• Ornamental worlds. Ethnological expeditions and the art of the “others”, 1890–1930. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2020, ISBN 978-3-41251-834-9 .
• Enlightenment, bourgeois self-awareness and the “invention” of psychiatry in Germany, 1770–1850 (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History. Vol. 122). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-35437-1 .
• Women between departure and reaction. Protestant women's movement in the first half of the 20th century (= Piper. Vol. 897). Piper, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-492-10897-0 .
• Catholic milieu in Münster 1928–1933. Political forms of action and gender-specific behavioral spaces (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur recent regional history and the history of North Rhine-Westphalia. Vol. 14). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-590-18126-5 .

Editorships

• History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during National Socialism. Inventory and prospects for research. 2 vols., Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-423-4 .

literature

• Jaromír Balcar, Nina Balcar (eds.): The other and the self. Perspectives on this side and on the other side of cultural history. Doris Kaufmann on her 65th birthday. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2018, ISBN 3-8378-1051-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Doris Kaufmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Kaufmann at Researchgate