Kathleen Canning

Professor of History, Women's Studies and German Director of the Eisenberg Institue for Historical Studies Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1988

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Email: kcanning@umich.edu

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Scholarly Interests: Modern Germany, modern European women and gender, labor and social movements, welfare state, history of the body

Biography: Kathleen Canning is Professor of History, Women's Studies and German, and is Director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.  Her fields of study include comparative history of gender, body, and sexuality in modern Europe and modern German history, citizenship, social movements, and body history. Her most recent book,  Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class and Citizenship, was published by Cornell University Press in 2006.  Her first book, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 (Cornell, 1996) won the Book Prize of the Conference Group in Central European History in 1998.  With Sonya O. Rose she co-edited the essay collection, Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities:  Historical and Theoretical Perspectives (London, 2002).  She is currently working on a new book project entitled Embodied Citizenships: Gender and the Crisis of Nation in Germany, 1918-1930. In 1999, Professor Canning received the John H. D'Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities and the Faculty Recognition Award.

Publications:

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 (forthcoming Berghahn Publishers).

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.