Doctoral Project

Antisemitism and Its Critique in Feminist Movements in the U.S. and West Germany since 1970
Supervisor: Prof. Maren Möhring, Leipzig University

Invited Positions & Fellowships

  • Fellow, Department of History, Harvard University, January – June 2022
  • Doctoral Fellowship, Heinrich Böll Foundation, March 2020 – August 2023

Research Interests

  • Jewish history
  • Women’s and gender history
  • Theory and history of antisemitism
  • Critical social theory and social philosophy
  • Epistemologies and the history of knowledge

Education

  • M.A. in Cultural Studies – Society and Culture, Leipzig University, 2019
  • B.A. in Social Sciences and Philosophy (major: Cultural Studies), Leipzig University, 2013

Academic Positions

  • Teaching and Research Assistant, Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University, April 2024 – July 2025
  • Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University, October 2023 – April 2024
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University, March 2016 – August 2018
  • Member of the Curriculum Reform Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Leipzig University, 2017
  • Student Research Assistant to Prof. Maren Möhring, Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University, 2016
  • Member of the Appointment Committee (Professorship in Cultural Philosophy and Cultural Theory), Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University, 2014–2015

Publications

  • Christian Kleindienst, “Antisemitismus und Geschlecht – Zur Integration und Kritik antisemitischer Ressentiments in der (West-)deutschen und US-amerikanischen Frauenbewegung (1970–2001)”, in: Lennard Schmidt / Andreas Borsch / Salome Richter / Marc Seul / Luca Zarbock / Niels Heudtlaß (eds.), Antisemitismus zwischen Kontinuität und Adaptivität, Göttingen 2022, 121–136. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737014984.121
  • Christian Kleindienst, “Antijudaismus-Debatten in feministischen Bewegungskontexten der Bundesrepublik und den USA”, in: Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, forthcoming.

Teaching

  • Summer 2025: Antisemitism and the Politics of Difference – Antisemitism Critique and Jewish-Feminist Identity Politics since 1970, Leipzig University
  • Winter 2024/25: Feminist Theories and Historiography, Leipzig University
  • Summer 2024: Antisemitism and Racism: A Shared History?, Leipzig University
  • Winter 2023/24: Key Questions in Gender History – Epistemological and Methodological Debates since 1970, Leipzig University
  • Summer 2023: Antisemitism and Its Critique in Feminist Movements in the U.S. and West Germany since 1970, Leipzig University
  • Winter 2017/18: “Identity” as a Category of Analysis in Gender Studies?, guest lecture in the lecture series Gender Studies across the Disciplines (SQ23), Leipzig University
  • Winter 2015/16: Art and Society – Discussions in the Wake of Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, Leipzig University
  • Summer 2015: Umweltbibliothek Leipzig: Reconceptualization and Funding, Leipzig University
  • 2013–2018: Tutorials, Introduction to Comparative Cultural and Social History and Introduction to Academic Writing, Leipzig University

Selected Talks and Conferences

  • 28th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, German History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, GHI Washington, 29 June – 3 July 2023
  • The Politics of Jewish Invisibility – (In)visibility of Jewish Feminists and the Perception of Antisemitism in Feminist Movement Contexts, doctoral colloquium of the ZZF, 11 May 2023
  • Antisemitism and Gender – On the Integration and Critique of Antisemitic Resentments in the German and U.S. Women’s Movements (1980–2001) [Antisemitismus und Geschlecht – Zur Integration und Kritik antisemitischer Ressentiments in der deutschen und US-amerikanischen Frauenbewegung (1980–2001)], 1st Interdisciplinary Conference on Antisemitism for Early Career Researchers, University of Trier, 9 October 2020
  • Sexuality and Gender Relations in National Socialism, guest lecture in the series 15 Years of Gender Studies at Leipzig University, 7 October 2016
  • The Entwinement of Reception and Production: Towards a Critical Theory of Art and Society, 9th Midterm Conference of the RN Sociology of the Arts, European Sociological Association, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 9 September 2016
  • Post-Affirmative Arts Management Revisited, 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination, Prague, 27 August 2015
  • Critical Inquiry: On the Lack of Field-Specific Methods and Theory in Arts Management, 8th Midterm Conference of the RN Sociology of the Arts, European Sociological Association, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, 5 September 2014

Memberships

  • RN31 – Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism, European Sociological Association
  • Association of German Historians (VHD)