Deborah Pomeranz

Deborah Pomeranz is a third year PhD student focusing on modern Central European cultural history. Her dissertation research takes up variety performance in Imperial Germany, and asks how this globalized popular culture and its performers influenced conceptions of nation, belonging, and normative citizenship at the turn of the century. Prior to the PhD, she worked in collections and curation at the Stadtmuseum Berlin.

During the fellowship period, Pomeranz will conduct preliminary research in the transnational and multimedial archives of variety performance, spanning press, police records, visual and material culture, and diaries and memoirs; enabling her to delimit her research questions in preparation for the prospectus.