Sabine Lang

holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University In Berlin and came to the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor of International Studies in 2004. Before moving to the US, she taught Political Science in Berlin and Leipzig and worked for four years as Press Secretary and Director of the Executive Office of the Secretary for Labor and Women’s Issues in the Berlin government. She is interested in civil society participation, the public sphere and gender politics. Her recent work is on political advocacy of the non-governmental sector.

 

She can be reached at salang@u.washington.edu

 

Thorsten Wagner

pursued his graduate studies at the Technical University and the Free University of Berlin, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 2001, he has been a docent at the Educational Dept. of the Jewish Museum Berlin and a research fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Copenhagen. He is currently employed by the Scandinavian studies dept. of the Humboldt University of Berlin. preparing a larger research project on Scandinavian Jewish history and literature

 

His main fields of interest are Modern European Jewish History, Danish and German history, the history of Nazism and the Holocaust, and postcolonial and memory studies.

 

He can be reached at thorsten_wagner@hotmail.com