Lora Wildenthal
Associate Professor of History
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Email: wildenth [] rice.edu Phone: x3526 Office: 318 Humanities
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994
- B.A. Rice University, 1987
Areas of Interest
- Modern Germany
- European Women
- Human Rights
- Modern Colonialism
Research and Teaching
Dr. Wildenthal received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994, and came to Rice in 2003 after teaching at Pitzer College, M.I.T., and Texas A&M University.
She is currently completing a book to be entitled “The Language of Human
Rights in West Germany.” What
causes have West Germans have considered to be “human rights” causes? Why did West Germany have the kinds of
human rights activists and experts that it did? This book seeks to meet a need for studies of human rights
activism that are closely contextualized in their domestic settings. For more
about this book project, please click here.
Lora Wildenthal’s 2001 book German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
(Duke University Press) pursued the questions of how German women participated
in Europe’s most intense period of imperial expansion, and how ideas of race in
the colonial context implicated white German women. For more about this book project, please click here.
Dr. Wildenthal offers two 100-level surveys: HIST 108 “World History since
1492” and HIST 102 “Modern Europe, 1789-present.” She also teaches upper-level
and graduate courses on the “History of Human Rights,” on Nazi and post-1945
German history, on nationalism, and on the history of women, gender and
feminism in Europe and around the world.
Selected Publications
- German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 (Duke University Press, 2001).
- “Human Rights Activism in Occupied and Early West Germany: The Case of the German League for Human Rights,” Journal of Modern History, vol. 80, no. 3 (September 2008): 515-556.
- “Mass-Marketing Colonialism and Nationalism: The Career of Else Frobenius in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” in Nation und Politik. Frauenbewegungen und Nationalismus zwischen Aufklärung und Zweitem Weltkrieg, pp. 328-343. Ed. Ute Planert. Frankfurt: Campus, 2000.
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German Women for Empire,
1884-1945 (Duke, 2001). |
Erinnerungen einer Journalistin:
Zwischen Kaiserrich und
Zweitem Weltkrieg [Memoirs of a
Journalist Between the
German Empire and World
War Two] (2005). |
Germany's Colonial Pasts (2005,
with Eric Ames and Marcia Klotz) |
Curriculum Vitae
CV as of October 2009
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