Team

Kathrin Hansen

doctoral researcher

Modern Jewish History, Dubnow Institute

Academic CV

From 2017 to 2022, Kathrin Hansen studied History and English studies at Humboldt-University Berlin. Pursued an MA degree in History with a focus on Contemporary History at Humboldt-University and completed her degree in 2025 with a thesis on the interaction of space and violence during the November Pogroms 1938. From 2020 to 2025 Kathrin Hansen coordinated the MA program European History at Humboldt University as a student advisor. In 2020, she conceptualized and realized the video project “75 Jahre Befreiung” at NS Documentation Center for Forced Labour. Her MA thesis „Keine Tasse, kein Bett – kein Raum: Interaktion von Raum und Akteur*innen am Beispiel der Wohnungszerstörungen im Rahmen der Novemberpogrome am 9. November 1938“ won the Alma Rosé Priz 2025.

Research Interests

  • Private, Jewish and Urban Space
  • Everyday Objects
  • History of Pogroms and Riots
  • History of Antisemitism and National Socialism

Research Project

  • “Home was not Home anymore.” The Destruction of Private Jewish Living Spaces in the November Pogroms of 1938

Publications

Kathrin Hansen, Rezension zu: Krampitz, Karsten: Pogrom im Scheunenviertel. Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik und die Berliner Ausschreitungen 1923. Berlin 2023, in: H-Soz-Kult, 12.04.2024, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-139753.

(During Studies)  "Lass sie laufen, sie ist blond". Die junge Mommsen (Student Journal) 6 (2024), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.18452/31136 .

Awards

Alma Rosé Preis 2025 (Verleihung erst im November 2025)