Professor Cannning is on leave for the 2009-2010 academic year. Her 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.

• Gender as Theory and Practice: Bodies, Class, Citizenship (Cornell University Press, forthcoming, fall 2005);
• 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