Personalia
Karen Hagemann, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1955. Ph.D. from University of Hamburg, Germany. James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
EURIAS Senior Fellow (1 September 2015 – 30 June 2016)
Oxford Handbook “Gender, War and the Western World since 1600”
Research Question
The Oxford Handbook, covering the period from c. 1600 to the present, investigates how ideas and practices of gender differences contributed to the shaping of warfare and military culture and were at the same time transformed by them. While the main geographical focus is on Europe and the Americas, the book will include the long-term processes of colonization and empire-building and their global aftermath.
Project Description
The Oxford Handbook, covering the period from c. 1600 to the present, investigates how ideas and practices of gender differences contributed to the shaping of warfare and military culture and were at the same time transformed by them. It explores six major themes: the cultural representations of the military and war; the mobilization of the military and society for war and their postwar demobilization; the war experiences on the home and battle fronts; violence in war; war service and citizenship; and postwar cultures and war memories. While its main geographical focus is on Europe and the Americas, it includes the long-term processes of colonization and empire-building and their global aftermath, thus allowing for both temporal and regional comparisons and the exploration of transnational entanglements.
Selected Publications
1) Revisiting Prussia’s Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
2) Editor with Sonya Michel, Gender and the long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989 (Baltimore and Washington DC: Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).
3) Editor with Gisela Mettele and Jane Rendall, Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775 – (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010/2013).
4) Editor with Alan Forrest and Etienne François, War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012/2013).