Christine von Oertzen

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PD Dr.

Residence: since June 15, 2005

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My work considers gender relations in society and science. My first monograph explored gender politics and social change in West Germany: an English-language version of this study was published in 2007. The focus of my current work is the creation and maintenance of female academic networks in western Europe and North America since the late-nineteenth century. My monograph, "Science, Gender, Internationalism: A Transnational History of Female Academic Networking," was published by the Wallstein press in Göttingen in September 2012. An English-language translation of this study is forthcoming.

I am working on two additional projects in the broader context of two international working groups that I am organizing at the MPIWG. The first, Science in the Cradle, is part of the working group "Beyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge." My focus here is at-home scientific observation of infants in fin-de-siècle America. The second, The Science of Statistics and the Politics of Censustaking, belongs to the working group "Historicizing Big Data." In this project I consider the societal and scientific ramifications of mechanized "data power" from the late-nineteenth century onward.

I earned my Ph.D. at the Free University of Berlin in 1998. Subsequently, I taught at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender at the Technical University in Berlin. From 2002 to 2005, I served as a Research Fellow at the German Historicial Institute in Washington, D.C. In 2009, I joined the faculty of the history department at the Technical University Braunschweig as a Privatdozentin.

Selected publications

Oertzen, Christine von. Strategie Verständigung. Zur transnationalen Vernetzung von Akademikerinnen 1917-1955. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012.

Oertzen, Christine von. The pleasure of a surplus income : part-time work, gender politics, and social change in West Germany, 1955-1969. New York [u.a.]: Berghahn Books, 2007.

Oertzen, Christine von. Teilzeitarbeit und die Lust am Zuverdienen. Geschlechterpolitik und gesellschaftlicher Wandel in der Bundesrepublik, 1948-1969. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1999.

Oertzen, Christine von. "Was ist Diskriminierung? - Professorinnen ringen um ein hochschulpolitisches Konzept (1949-1989)." In: Zeitgeschichte als Geschlechtergeschichte. Neue Perspektiven auf die Bundesrepublik, eds.: Paulus, Julia, Eva-Maria Silies, Kerstin Wolff. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2012.

Oertzen, Christine von. "Völkerverständigung durch akademische Vernetzung : die International Federation of University Women 1919-1945." In: Politische Netzwerkerinnen : internationale Zusammenarbeit von Frauen 1830-1960, eds.: Schöck-Quinteros, Eva; Schüler, Anja; Wilmers, Anika; Wolff, Kerstin. Berlin: Trafo, 2007.

Christine von Oertzen

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