PD Dr. Sarah Panter

This project is the first to develop a transnational history of (high) treason in the 19th and 20th centuries. By examining the changing conceptions of social order in the context of revolution(s) and counterrevolution(s), it transcends traditional epochal boundaries and watersheds. To this end, it firstly reveals the complex state and non-state dynamics of (high) treason as a process of contested coexistence in situations of political upheaval. Secondly, the concrete analysis of (high) treason offenses and accusations is freed from the previously narrow constraints of legal and national history: Firstly, German/European, colonial, and non-European case studies will be integrated into the research design in order to write a transnational history of (high) treason in the form of a monograph. Second, the social figure of the (high) traitor will be historicized as a key to the transformation of social conceptions of order, thereby providing an actor-centered positioning of traitors beyond dichotomous friend-enemy constellations. Third, a systematic examination of the transformation of the concepts of revolution and resistance since 1789 will be undertaken in order to bring together both phenomena, previously considered separately, beyond the umbrella term of treason on a level of conceptual and intellectual history. The social, political, cultural, and constitutional questions linked to these three aims also promise new insights beyond the narrower scope of a transnational history of (high) treason in the 19th and 20th centuries—particularly that the search for a legitimate order was and still is much more contested than is usually assumed not only in Germany, but also in Europe, its (former) colonies, and the USA.

• Revolutionäre Familien. Die transatlantischen Leben der „Achtundvierziger/Forty-Eighters“, 1848/49–1914, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2025 (=Habilitation).
• Jüdische Erfahrungen und Loyalitätskonflikte im Ersten Weltkrieg, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014 (=PhD).
  

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• Mobilität und Differenzierung. Zur Konstruktion von Unterschieden und Zugehörigkeiten in der europäischen Neuzeit, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2023 (ed. together with Johannes Paulmann und Thomas Weller).
• *Mobility and Biography (=European History Yearbook 16 (2015)).

(*peer-reviewed)

• Zwischen Revolution und Gegenrevolution. Die Familie Kapp und die Umbrüche deutscher Geschichte vom Kaiserreich bis in die Bundesrepublik, in: Historische Zeitschrift 322 (2026) [accepted for publication]
• *Auf der Flucht. Transatlantische Mobilität und Eigentum revolutionärer Familien nach 1848/49, in: Historische Anthropologie 32/2 (2024), pp. 225–243.
• *Zwischen Verlust und Aneignung von „Heimat”: Transatlantische Reflexionen deutscher Revolutionsflüchtlinge nach 1848/49, in: The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 96 (2021), no. 3, pp. 276–292.
• *Beyond Marginalization: The (German-)Jewish Soldiers’ Agency in Times of War, 1914–1918, in: Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 66 (2021), pp. 25–39.
• *Neutral Spectators from a Distance? American Jews and the Outbreak of the First World War, in: Religions 9 (2018), pp. 1–17. [=Special Issue „The American Jewish Experience”, ed. by Eli Lederhendler]
• *Mobility and Biography. Methodological Challenges and Perspectives, in: Mobility and Biography, ed. by Sarah Panter (=European History Yearbook 16 (2015)), pp. 1–14 (together with Johannes Paulmann and Margit Szöllösi-Janze).

• *Zwischen Selbstreflexion und Projektion. Die Bilder von Ostjuden in zionistischen und orthodoxen deutsch-jüdischen Periodika während des Ersten Weltkriegs, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 59 (2010), 1, pp. 65–92. 

(*peer-reviewed)

• *Processing the Revolutionary Past: The Transatlantic Marriage of Mathilde and Fritz Anneke, in: Sandra Dahlke, Nikolaus Katzer and Denis Sdvizhkov (eds.): Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2024, pp. 193–208.
• Revolution und transatlantische Migration: „Familie“ als Sonde für internationale Mobilität nach 1848/49, in: Arvid Schors and Fabian Klose (eds.): Wie schreibt man Internationale Geschichte? Empirische Vermessungen zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2023, pp. 127–150.
• Mobilität, Differenzierung und Zugehörigkeit: Forschungsperspektiven, in: Sarah Panter, Johannes Paulmann and Thomas Weller (eds.), Mobilität und Differenzierung. Zur Konstruktion von Unterschieden und Zugehörigkeiten in der europäischen Neuzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2023, pp. 7–38 (together with Johannes Paulmann and Thomas Weller).
• Revolutionsflüchtlinge als Akteure globaler Mobilität und lokaler Differenzierung, 1849–1914, in: Sarah Panter, Johannes Paulmann and Thomas Weller (eds.), Mobilität und Differenzierung. Zur Konstruktion von Unterschieden und Zugehörigkeiten in der europäischen Neuzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2023, pp. 231–252.
• *Entangling the Past and the Present: The Place of Port Cities in Narratives of German-Speaking Forty-Eighters, in: Christina Reimann and Martin Öhman (eds.): Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World, New York: Routledge 2020, pp. 222–244.
• *‘Being German’ and ‘Being Jewish’ during World War I: An Ambivalent Transnational Relationship?, in: Jason Crouthamel, Michael Geheran, Tim Grady and Julia Köhne (eds.): Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Jews in Central Europe and the First World War, New York: Berghahn Books 2019, pp. 144–169.
• *Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Experiences of Jewish Soldiers in Europe and the USA, 1914–1918, in: Edward Madigan and Gideon Reuveni (eds.): The Jewish Experience of the First World War, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2019, pp. 159–181.
• *Between Friends and Enemies: The Dilemma of Jews in the Final Stages of the War, in: Hannah Ewence and Tim Grady (eds.): Minorities during the First World War. From War to Peace, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2017, pp. 63–87.
• *Zwischen Nationalstaat und multiethnischem Empire: Die Aushandlungen jüdischer Selbstverortungen im Ersten Weltkrieg, in: Gregor Feindt, Bernhard Gißibl and Johannes Paulmann (eds.): Kulturelle Souveränität. Politische Deutungs- und Handlungsmacht jenseits des Staates im 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017, pp. 79–106.

(*peer-reviewed)

• *Transnational Networks and Questions of Belonging. An Exchange of Letters Between Jacob Schiff and Max Warburg During World War I (translated by Insa Kummer), in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, March 07, 2017.
• *In Search of Belonging. Jacob Sonderling’s “This is my Life” (translated by Insa Kummer), in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, February 20, 2017.
• St. Louis, in: Ortstermine. Umgang mit Differenz in Europa, ed. by Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) v. Joachim Berger, Irene Dingel and Johannes Paulmann, Mainz 2016.
• *Entry Frank, Ludwig, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel et al. issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2016-07-07.