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Helmut F. Stern Professor
Department of History1029 Tisch Hall 435 S. State St. 48109-1003
Office Location(s): 2719 Haven Phone: 734.763.9937 Fax: 734.647.4881 kcanning@umich.edu
Kathleen Canning is Professor of History Women's Studies and German as well as the Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professor of History. Her fields of study include modern German social, cultural and political history, including the history of citizenship and class, labor and social movements, welfare state, social reform and the social imaginary. She also teaches and writes in the field of European and transnational history of gender, body, and sexuality. Her current book project, Citizenship Effects: Gender and Sexual Crisis in the Aftermath of War and Revolution in Germany, examines the history of citizenship, gender and sexuality in Germany during the First World War and the Weimar Republic. She is the former director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan (2006-09) and the founding director of the UM Center for European Studies (1995-98). In 2011 she became editor of the University of Michigan Press series on Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Canning currently serves on the editorial board of the Central European History, Gender & History and L’homme and is a member of the Executive Board of the German Studies Association (2009-12). She was named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 1996. Prof. Canning was featured as one of the nation's best professors in Newsweek's 2009 college guide.
