Dr. Maren Möhring

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Dr. phil. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 2002

Visiting NEH/GHI-Research Fellow February-July 2007

Research project:
Foreign Cuisine in Postwar Germany. Food, Migration, and Consumption

Main areas of interest:

Social and cultural history of 20th century Germany, body and gender history, postcolonial studies

Most important publications:

• Marmorleiber: Körperbildung in der deutschen Nacktkultur (1890-1930), (Böhlau, 2004).
• "Working Out the Body’s Boundaries: Physiological, Aesthetic, and Psychic Dimensions of the Skin in German Nudism, 1890-1930", in Christopher Forth/Ivan Crozier (eds.), Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality (Lexington Books, 2005), pp. 229-246.
• "Der bronzene Leib: Die FKK-Ästhetik in der Weimarer Republik", in Michael Cowan/Kai Marcel Sicks (eds.), Leibhaftige Moderne: Körper in Kunst und Massenmedien 1918 bis 1933 (transcript, 2005), pp. 200-216.
• "Performanz und historische Mimesis", in Jürgen Martschukat/Steffen Patzold (eds.), Geschichtswissenschaft und "performative turn": Ritual, Inszenierung und Performanz vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit (Böhlau, 2003), pp. 255-285.
• "Nacktheit und Sichtbarkeit", in Jürgen Martschukat (ed.), Geschichte schreiben mit Foucault (Campus, 2002), pp. 151-169.
• "Der moderne Apoll", WerkstattGeschichte, 10/29 (2001), pp. 27-42.

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