Veronika Lipphardt
Research Group Director
Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.
Residence: March 1, 2009–April 30, 2016
Profile
Veronika Lipphardt works on the history of the life sciences, particularly physical anthropology and human population genetics and their social and cultural contexts. Her current work focuses on the history of knowledge about human biodiversity in the 20th century. Since March 2009, she is director of an Independent Research Group, and since 2011, she is Professor at the Free University, Berlin.Veronika Lipphardt has published a book about German-Jewish physical anthropologists and geneticists and how they contributed to the scientific debate about the so-called "Jewish race" between 1900 and 1935. From 2006 to 2009, she has been a researcher in the BMBF-funded Collaborative Research Project "Imagined Europeans. The scientific construction of Homo Europaeus" at Humboldt University Berlin, studying imaginations of the "European" and its biological essence in the life sciences from the 18th century until today. She has studied history, biology, musicology and social sciences in Vienna, Potsdam, Berlin and Freiburg.
Selected publications
Lipphardt, Veronika. "Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics, or: A Contextualization of German Race Science. " Current Anthropology 53 (S5 2012)
Lipphardt, Veronika; Ludwig, David. "Wissens- und Wissenschaftstransfer. " EGO Europäische Geschichte Online (2011)
Veronika Lipphardt. "The Jewish Community of Rome: An Isolated Population? Bio-historical Narratives in Genetic Anaysis in the 1950s. " BioSocieties (5 2010)
Lipphardt, Veronika. "Knowing Europe, Europeanizing knowledge : the making of "Homo Europaeus" in the life sciences." In: Europeanization in the twentieth century : historical approaches, eds.: Conway, Martin; Patel, Kiran Klaus. Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Lorraine Bluche / Veronika Lipphardt / Kiran Klaus Patel (Editor/s). Der Europäer - ein Konstrukt. Wissensbestände, Diskurse, Praktiken. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009.
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