Internationale Tagung

Since 2010, Gisela Mettele has been Professor of Gender History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She completed her Magister Artium in Medieval and Modern History at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main in 1989 and received her doctorate there in 1994. From 1994 to 2005, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Economic and Social History at Chemnitz University of Technology, where she completed her habilitation in 2004. She then did research at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC, and in 2007 took on the position of Acting Director there. She was also Lecturer in Urban History at the University of Leicester from 2007 to 2009. She is a member of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg Modell Romantik at the FSU Jena. In addition to women's and gender history, her research focuses on the history of religion, the history of the middle classes, Romantic studies, and the history of cities and urbanization.

Pia Marzell is a research associate at the Chair of Gender History at the University of Jena and is part of the team organizing the conference "Digital Humanities and Gender History". Since January 2021, she has been working on her dissertation about struggles of marginalized women in the New Women's Movement. Her research focuses on women's and queer movements in East and West Germany, the history of National Socialism and its implications in the present, and the history of sexuality.

Martin Prell studied history and religious studies in Jena and Leipzig. He is a research associate at the Chair of Gender History at the University of Jena and at the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar in the academy project "PROPYLÄEN - Research Platform on Goethe's Biographica". His research focuses on digital editions and historical network analysis applied to early modern sources.

Pia Marzell is a research associate at the Chair of Gender History at the University of Jena and is part of the team organizing the conference "Digital Humanities and Gender History". Since January 2021, she has been working on her dissertation about struggles of marginalized women in the New Women's Movement. Her research focuses on women's and queer movements in East and West Germany, the history of National Socialism and its implications in the present, and the history of sexuality.

Since 2010, Gisela Mettele has been Professor of Gender History at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She completed her Magister Artium in Medieval and Modern History at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main in 1989 and received her doctorate there in 1994. From 1994 to 2005, she was a research assistant at the Chair of Economic and Social History at Chemnitz University of Technology, where she completed her habilitation in 2004. She then did research at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC, and in 2007 took on the position of Acting Director there. She was also Lecturer in Urban History at the University of Leicester from 2007 to 2009. She is a member of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg Modell Romantik at the FSU Jena. In addition to women's and gender history, her research focuses on the history of religion, the history of the middle classes, Romantic studies, and the history of cities and urbanization.

Dr. Andreas Neumann is a research associate at the University History Research Center at the Jena University Archives and a lecturer at the Chair for Gender History at FSU Jena. His research interests lie in the field of social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries with a focus on gender, university and educational history. In addition, he is concerned with the adaptation of social science methodologies in historical sciences.

Martin Prell studied history and religious studies in Jena and Leipzig. He is a research associate at the Chair of Gender History at the University of Jena and at the Goethe and Schiller Archive Weimar in the academy project "PROPYLÄEN - Research Platform on Goethe's Biographica". His research focuses on digital editions and historical network analysis applied to early modern sources.

Anselm Scheck received his B.A. from Kalamazoo College after having studied there during the years 2014-18. He majored in political science and minored in history and French. Since autumn 2019 he has been acquiring his M.A. in modern history at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. He will write his Master’s thesis on certain groups of plebeian and proletarian women in Saxony during the years 1847-49. His general interests include the history of Marxism and of the labor movement in Europe.

Regula Selbmann is a student of social theories at the University of Jena. Her research interests are gender studies and research on the extreme right and authoritarianism. She is a research assistant for the conference "Digital Humanities & Gender History" at the Chair for Gender History at the University of Jena.