Department of History - University of Michigan

Kathleen Canning

Professor
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1988

Other U of M Affiliation:
Women's Studies; German Department

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2719 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-763-9937
E-mail: kcanning@umich.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2009-2010

Field(s) of Study:
Modern Germany, modern European women and gender, labor and social movements, welfare state, history of the body

Biography:
Kathleen Canning's current research areas include citizenship and gender in the Weimar Republic; European histories of the body, political violence in the aftermath of war, and the politics of social reform and social hygiene in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is currently writing a book entitled Embodied Citizenships: Gender and the Crisis of the Nation in Germany, 1916-1930. She teaches in the areas of modern German history and transnational and comparative gender history. She is the former North American co-editor of Gender & History and is currently on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Central European History.

Her book Languages of Labor and Gender won the Central European Book Prize for 1996/97.In 1999, Professor Canning was chosen to receive the John H. D'Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities and the Faculty Recognition Award. She was named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 1996.

Selected Publications:
Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 2006);

Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s, co-edited with Kerstin Barndt and Kristin McGuire (Berghahn Publishers, forthcoming 2006)

Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities, co-edited with Sonya O. Rose (London: Blackwell Publishers, 2002);

Class vs.Citizenship: Keywords in German Gender History," in Gary Stark and Lawrence Stokes, eds., Festschrift for Vernon L. Lidtke, special issue of Central European History 37/2 (June 2004): 225-44

"Problematische Dichotomien. Erfahrung zwischen Narrativität und Materialität," Historische Anthropologie 10/2 (2002): 163-183

"Der Körper der Staatsbürgerin als theoretisches und historisches Problem," in Beatrice Bowald et al., Körper im Spannungsfeld von Diskurs und Erfahrung (Luzern, 2002: Bohlau Verlag, 2002), pp.109-33

"The Body as Method? Reflections on the Place of the Body in Gender History," Gender & History 11/3 (November 1999): 499-513

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