Karen Hagemann

Karen Hagemann (born December 17, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German-American historian . Her research areas are modern and contemporary history, German and European history, social, political and cultural history as well as military history and gender history.

Live and act

Karen Hagemann studied history, German and Education at the University of Hamburg , where in 1989 Klaus Saul Dr. phil. PhD . From 1987, she worked as a historian at the Technical University of Berlin employed where they 2000 habilitated . After visiting professorships at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Trier and the University of Toronto , she was Professor of History and Co-director of the Center for Border Studies at the University of Glamorgan , Wales from 2003 to 2005 . Since July 2005 she has been the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Her various honorable invitations and fellowships include: 1991 - Fellowship of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala; 2000/01 - Membership of the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; 2004 - visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin; 2011/12 - John G. Medlin Jr. Fellowship of the National Humanities Center; 2015 - German Transatlantic Program Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy Berlin. Her research was funded by the German National Academic Foundation, the Heinrich Böckler Foundation, the German Research Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Federal Ministry for Research and Education and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Karen Hagemann is one of the co-founders of the Working Group on Historical Women and Gender Studies .

Karen Hagemann is married and has two grown sons.

Fonts (selection)

As an author

Contested memory. The Antinapoleonic Wars in German memory. Schöningh, Paderborn 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-70748-2 .
"Mannlicher Courage and German Honor". Nation, military and gender at the time of the Antinapoleonic Wars in Prussia. (= War in History. Volume 8). Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-74477-1 . (revised habilitation thesis, TU Berlin, 2000)
Everyday life for women and politics for men. Everyday life and social behavior of working women in the Weimar Republic. JHW Dietz, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-8012-5008-3 . (Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1988/89)
with Jan Kolossa: Equal Rights - Equal Duties? The women's struggle for "civic" equality. A picture-reading book on everyday life and women's movement in Hamburg. VSA, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-87975-528-0 .

As editor

with Donna Harsch and Friederike Brühöfener: Gendering Post-1945 History: Entanglements. Berghahn Books, Oxford / New York, 2019.
with Sonya Michel: Gender and the long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / Washington DC 2014.
with Konrad H. Jarausch and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda : Children, Families and States: Time Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe. Berghahn Books, Oxford / New York, 2011. (Paperback edition 2013)
with Alan Forrest and Étienne François : War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2012. (Paperback edition 2013)
with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall: Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775–1830. Palgrave, Houndsmills / Basingstoke 2010. (Paperback edition 2013)
with Alan Forrest and Jane Rendall: Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820. Palgrave, Houndsmills / Basingstoke 2009.
with Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde : Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Berghahn, Oxford / New York 2008. (Paperback edition 2011)
with Jean Quataert: History and Gender. Revisions of Modern German History. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2008. (in English: 2007/2011)
with Stefan Dudink and Anna Clark: Representing Masculinity: Citizenship in Modern Western Culture. Palgrave, Houndsmills / Basingstoke 2007.
with Michael Epkenhans and Stig Förster: Military culture of remembrance. Soldiers in the mirror of biographies, memoirs and personal testimonies. Schöningh, Paderborn 2006.
with Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel: Peace - Violence - Gender. Peace and conflict research as gender research. Klartext, Essen 2005.
with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh: Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History. Manchester University Press, Manchester / New York 2004.
with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum : Heimat - Front. Military and Gender Relations in the Age of World Wars. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2002. (in English: 2002)
with Ida Blom and Catherine Hall: Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berg, Oxford / New York 2000.
with Ralf Pröve : Landsknechte: Soldiers' Wives and National Warriors . Military, war and gender order in historical change. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1998.

Web links

Literature by and about Karen Hagemann in the catalog of the German National Library
Karen Hagemann on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill website
Personal website

personal data
SURNAME	Hagemann, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	17th December 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg