Kathleen Canning

Kathleen Canning was Professor of History, Women's Studies, and German as well as the Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professor of History and chair of the History Department. 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.

Affiliation(s)

• Women's Studies
• History
• German

Award(s)

• Sonya O. Rose Collegiate Professorship, 2012
• Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship, 1996
• John D'Arms Award for Distinguished Mentoring in the Humanities, 1999
• Conference Group for Central European History Book Prize, 1999
• Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, 1995

Field(s) of Study

• Modern Germany
• Modern European women and gender
• Labor and social movements
• Welfare state
• History of the body

Fellowships

• Helmet F. Stern Professor, Institute for the Humanities 2012-13
• University of Michigan Humanities Award, 2009-10
• Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, School of History, University of Freiburg, 2009-10

Previous Fellowships

• German Marshall Fund of the United States, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University