Prof. Dr. Kathleen Canning

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Kathleen Canning is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan where she teaches modern German history and transnational history of gender, sexuality, and social movements. She was the director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies from 2006-2009; during her term as director she organized thematic programs on the topics of “history and the visual;” “topographies of violence;” and “thinking and teaching in global dimensions.” She currently serves on the board of editors of the Journal of Modern History and Central European History and is a member of the executive board of the German Studies Association. Her publications include: Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s, co-edited with Kerstin Barndt and Kristin McGuire (forthcoming, Berghahn Books); Gender History in Practice (Cornell, 2006); Gender, Citizenships, and Subjectivities, co-edited with Sonya Rose (Blackwell, 2002); Languages of Labor and Gender (Cornell, 1996).

Publications

Books, Proceedings, Editions, and Articles (10 selected)

• Weimar Subjects/Weimar Publics, co-edited with Kerstin Barndt and Kristin McGuire essay collection (in press with Berghahn Books, forthcoming winter 2010), with the introductory essay: “Subjects, Publics, and the Gender of Weimar History,” pp. 1-43
• “The Ambiguities of Suffrage and Revolution in Germany, 1918-1920,” in Alexander Gallus, Die vergessene Revolution von 1918/19 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), in progress
• “Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Germany,” for Weimar Germany, Short Oxford History of Germany, ed. Anthony McElligott, Weimar Germany. Short Oxford History of Germany (Oxford, 2009), pp. 146-74
• “Sexual Crisis and the Writing of Citizenship: Reflections on States of Exception in Germany, 1914-1920,” in Alf Lüdtke and Michael Wildt, eds. Ausnahmezustand und Polizeigewalt, volume in series Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2009, pp. 168-211
• “Reflections on the Vocabulary of Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Germany,” in Geoff Eley and Jan Palmowski, eds., Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany. Stanford University Press, 2007, pp. 214-32

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