Universität Konstanz
Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science
Universitätsstraße 10, Box 11
78464 Konstanz, Germany
Tel.: 0049 7531 88-4902
E-Mail: claudia.roesch@uni-konstanz.de
Office Hours (during the term break): Feb. 13, 20, 27, March 05, 12, 19,
10 am to 11 am and by appointment.
About
Claudia Roesch is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington since 2018 and spokesperson for the GHI History of Knowledge research focus since 2019. Since January 2022 she has been associated with the University of Konstanz Chair for the History of Knowledge for her “Habilitationsschrift.” Her current research project "Utopian Engineering: Solving the 19th Century Slavery, Labor, and the Women’s Questions with Science" investigates knowledge production in intentional communities in the 19th century Americas.
She studied Contemporary History, English and American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and received her PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Münster in 2014 with a dissertation of Mexican immigrant families in the 20th century United States. Since then, she has received a postdoctoral research grant by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for archival research on the project “Between Public Decisions and Private Choice: Reproductive Debates in the 20th Century United States.” From 2015 to 2017, she was a researcher in the University of Münster’s Collaborative Research Center “Cultures of Decision-Making”. Her research interests include the history of gender, family, migration, and knowledge in a transatlantic perspective.
You can find a full CV here.
Selected Publications
"Owen and the Engineers: Cross-Fertilization between Engineering and Early Socialism in the Owenite Tradition", in: Global Intellectual History (2023), S. 1-16, Link: Full article: Owen and the Engineers: Cross-Fertilization between Engineering and Early Socialism in the Owenite Tradition.
Wunschkinder: Eine transnationale Geschichte der Familienplanung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021), Cover, Link: https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/transnationaleglobalgeschichte/56915/wunschkinder.
Macho Men and Modern Women: Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Oldenbourg 2015).
"A Contested Pill. Transnational Controversies over Medical Abortion in Germany, France, and the United States", in: Journal of Contemporary History (2022 forthcoming) Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00220094221099850?journalCode=jcha.
Outreach
Interview: L.I.S.A Wissenschaftsprotal Gerda Henkel Stiftung, „Ab wann wurde Familie eigentlich etwas Planbares?“ (30.11.2021), online: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/roesch?fbclid=IwAR1rVPBAKwlHyr8UmEBFQl4_U5z_YrsccFHHH8WzIQVjw30MqRB7jiX2R0k
Interview: GiD-Lab: Schöne neue Welt (15.10.2020), online Zugriff: https://gid.hypotheses.org/2553
Podcast: „Wissen entgrenzen“, Episode 13: „Individuelle Familienplanung und das Recht auf Abtreibung in Polen und Deutschland" (08.03.2023).