Institute of Modern History

PD Dr. Sarah Panter

Sarah Panter is the Interim Professor for Prof. Dr. Jan Jansen during the winter term 2025/26 and summer term 2026  (50%).

Contact

Department of History
Institute of Modern History
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen
sarah.panterspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours

  • Tue, 10:30am - 11:30am

starting October 14th. Please make an appointment here.

Office: Hegelbau, 2nd floor, room 230A


Curriculum Vitae

2025–2026
Interim Professor

University of Tübingen

2025
Wolf-Erich-Kellner-award for habilitation
2025
Habilitation und Venia Legendi in Neuester Geschichte (19./20. Jahrh.)

JGU Mainz, title: „Revolutionary Families. The Transatlantic Lives of Forty-Eighters, 1848/49–1914.”

2022–2025
Research Associate

at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, DFG-project (PI) „Transatlantic Families. The Lives of German-Speaking Exiles,1848/49–1914“

06/2021–03/2022
parental leave
01/2017–09/2017
parental leave
2015–2021
Research Associate

at the IEG in Mainz

2014–2015
Postdoc

at the IEG in Mainz, feasiblity study „Cosmobilities: Transnational Lives in Dictionaries of National Biography across Europe during the Nineteenth Century“, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

2013–2014
Research Coordinator

at the IEG in Mainz

2013
PhD

University of Freiburg, title: „Contested Loyalties and Reorientations: The Negotiation of Jewish Belongings in Europe and the USA during the First World War“

2009–2013
PhD Candidate

at the Chair for Modern European History, Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard, University of Freiburg

2009
Pre-Doctoral Researcher

at the Chair for Modern European History, Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard, University of Freiburg

2008
Magister Artium (M.A.)

in Modern History and Political Sciences, University of Freiburg

2005–2006
Study Abroad

at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

2003–2008
Studies in Modern History and Political Sciences

University of Freiburg

Research

Research Interests

  • Jewish history in Europe and the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  • Ethnic and religious minorities in World War I
  • Transatlantic migration
  • History of the European revolutions of 1848/49 in their global and colonial contexts, especially in relation to slavery and Euro-American settler colonialism
  • Biography and mobility research
  • Resistance to state authority in the “long” 19th century
  • Family, generational and gender history

Current Project

  • Between Revolution and Counter-Revolution: A Transnational History of Treason in the 19th and 20th Century

Awards and Fellowships

  • 2021: Grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • 2020: Acceptance into the Leibniz-Mentoring-Programme
  • 07–12/2012: Doctoral Fellowship IEG Mainz
  • 05–06/2012: Doctoral Fellowship at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • 05–07/2011: Doctoral Fellowship at the German Historical Institute, London
  • 01–02/2011: Marcus Center Fellow, American Jewish Archives Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 2009–2012: PhD-Fellowship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  • 2005–2006: Fellowship Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg for Studying Abroad

Publications

Book Chapters

(*peer-reviewed)