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Jewish Studies Welcomes Professor Vera Kallenberg

Please join the Jewish Studies department in welcoming Visiting Professor Vera Kallenberg for Fall 2024.

 

  • Vera Kallenberg

The Department of Jewish Studies is pleased to introduce our newest faculty member, Visiting Professor Vera Kallenberg. 

About Professor Vera Kallenberg: 

Visiting Professor Vera Kallenberg is a historian working at the intersection of Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, North American Studies, and European Studies. She earned her doctorate from TU Darmstadt and EHESS Paris within a binational German-French framework (Cotutelle), focusing on modern European history with a dissertation on Jews before the Frankfurt Criminal Court (1780-1814). Vera's work has been supported by various fellowships and grants. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and the Gerald Westheimer Award 2023. Her German-language book, based on this dissertation, was awarded the Arno Lustiger Prize in 2019. Vera's research interests include the relationship between intersectional experience and transatlantic/transnational Jewish migrant knowledge in 20th-century feminist historiography, as well as Jewish migrant studies, Jewish intellectual history, and critical thought. Since her time as a postdoctoral scholar, she has taught and conducted research at various universities in Germany and the United States, including Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, UCSC, Duke University, the University of Erfurt, and the University of Bielefeld (both in Germany).

At Dartmouth College, in addition to teaching, Vera will focus on her current book project on historian Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a Viennese Jewish refugee, anti-racist activist, and feminist writer who escaped Nazi persecution to become a pioneering scholar in Women's History in the United States and globally.

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