{"id":194,"date":"2009-10-21T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:38:34","slug":"jennifer-v-evans","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/jennifer-v-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer V. Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My undergraduate teaching revolves around contemporary German and European history, and I also teach transnational histories of love, hate, sexuality, and everyday life. I also teach about the longue dur\u00e9e history of authoritarianism, populism, and fascism. At the graduate level, my courses focus on social theory and interdisciplinary research methods in addition to themes related to my areas of expertise. My main research interests lie in the history of sexuality, art, memory, and visual culture, especially the role of photography and social media as agents of historical meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My publications reflect these same interests in thinking conceptually as well as historically about the way knowledge is generated in the past and the stakes for the present day. My first book&nbsp;<em>Life Among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin<\/em>&nbsp;(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) is a cultural history of reconstruction and traces the rebirth of the city\u2019s various subcultures in the aftermath of World War II. I have written book chapters and articles on same-sex sexuality in post-1945 Germany and co-edited a book with Matt Cook (Birkbeck) entitled&nbsp;<em>Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe Since 1945<\/em>&nbsp;(Continuum, 2013). Another in German, on the historiography surrounding homosexuality, was edited together with Florian Mildenburger, Jakob Past\u00f6tter, and R\u00fcdiger Lautmann, entitled&nbsp;<em>Was ist Homosexualit\u00e4t?&nbsp;<\/em>(M\u00e4nnerschwarm, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My most recent book,&nbsp;<em>Queer Life After Fascism: Kinship and the Queer Art of History<\/em>&nbsp;(Duke UP, 2023), takes up the question of respectability politics in queer and trans* organizing, art, and remembrance in the late 20th and 21st century Germany and argues for kinship as a category of historical analysis. I have written a monograph with former students Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fagen on social media and post-Holocaust memory for Bloomsbury UK&nbsp;<em>(Holocaust Memory in the Digital<\/em>&nbsp;Mediascape), and am working on another on the role of erotic photography as a claim to desire, personhood, and sexual freedom in the era before AIDS. I am primary investigator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/\">Populist Publics<\/a>, a multi-year SSHRC\/Heritage\/SSRC and German Embassy supported social media analysis of historical misremembering as a form of misinformation in the contemporary populist moment and am researching what I\u2019m calling&nbsp;<em>A Short History of Drag<\/em>&nbsp;to be given as part of the 2026 George Mosse Lectures in Madison Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy to supervise MA and PhD students with wide-ranging interests in the social and cultural history of 20th and 21st century Germany and Europe. I am particularly interested in theoretically informed approaches to the history of the body, gender, and sexuality, visual culture, public memory, and the everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>contemporary Germany and East Central Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>history of sexuality; visual culture, including social media and photography; social and cultural theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>historical subjectivity; the spatial, visual, and now digital turns; \u201cother victims\u201d of the Holocaust; the Sexual Revolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023 Konrad Adenauer Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023 University Research Achievement Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021 Dept of Canadian Heritage Digital Citizen Contribution Program Fellowship, \u201cTriangular Hate: digital memory, disinformation, and transnational traffic between Germany, the US, and Canada\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2021 Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ottawa Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2020 SSRC Social Data Initiative Research Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 SSHRC Insight Grant, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/memory,%20populism,%20and%20misinformation%20in%20the%20canadian%20social%20mediascape\/\">Populist Publics<\/a>: Memory, Populism, and Misinformation in the Canadian Social Mediascape\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2018 Visiting Professorship, Fondation Maison de Sciences de L\u2019Homme Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, \u201cLibraries, Sound, and Queer Kinship\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016 Elected Member of Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists, and Experts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015 University Research Achievement Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013-15 SSHRC Insight Grant, \u201cPhotography and the Sexual Revolution\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2011 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hate2point0.com\/\">Hate 2.0<\/a>: Combating Right-Wing Extremism in the Age of Social Technology\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2003-06 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, \u201cThe Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi and Postwar Germany\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2003 Carleton University Students Association Teaching Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2002 SSRC Berlin Program Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape.&nbsp;<\/em>Co-written with Erica Fagen and Meghan Lundrigan. (forthcoming in December 2023 with Bloomsbury UK).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Queer Life After Fascism: Kinship and the Queer Art of History&nbsp;<\/em>(Duke UP,&nbsp; 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gender in Global Contexts: Labor, Law, and Human Rights,&nbsp;<\/em>co-edited with Shelley O. Rose (Berghahn Press, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and 20th Century German History<\/em>. Edited together with Paul Betts and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Berghahn Books, December 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Queering German History<\/em>, Special Issue of&nbsp;<em>German History<\/em>, (September 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe Since 1945&nbsp;(<\/em>Continuum, 2013), with Matt Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Was ist Homosexualit\u00e4<\/em><em>t? Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven,&nbsp;<\/em>co-edited with Florian Mildenberger,&nbsp;R\u00fcdiger Lautmann, Jakob Past\u00f6tter (M\u00e4nnerschwarm Verlag GmbH, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Life Among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin<\/em>&nbsp;(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles and Book Chapters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSettler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries\u201d with Swen Steinberg, David Y. Clement, and Danielle Carron&nbsp;<em>Central European History,&nbsp;<\/em>(forthcoming in Winter 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe New Fascism Syllabus: Networked Knowledge in the Digital Public Sphere\u201d&nbsp;<em>Seminar: a Journal of Germanic Studies,&nbsp;<\/em>vol.&nbsp;&nbsp;57 Issue 3 (August 2021): 264-287<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCross-dressing, Male Intimacy, and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography\u201d&nbsp;with Elissa Mailander&nbsp;<em>German History<\/em>,&nbsp;vol 22. Issue 1 (June 2020): 25-43<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTurning Points in the History of Gender and Sexuality\u201d&nbsp;<em>Gendering Post 1945 German History<\/em>, edited by Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederiecke Braunh\u00f6fer (New York: Berghahn Press, 2018), pp. 25-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntroduction: Seeing Ethically\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Ethics of Seeing: German Documentary Photography Reconsidered<\/em>&nbsp;co-edited with Paul Betts and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, (New York: Berghahn Press, 2017), pp. 1-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cErotic Photography and the Optics of Desire\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Ethics of Seeing: German Documentary Photography Reconsidered<\/em>&nbsp;co-edited with Paul Betts and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, (New York: Berghahn Press, 2017), pp. 182-204.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy Queer German History?\u201d&nbsp;<em>Queering German History<\/em>, Special Issue of&nbsp;<em>German History<\/em>, 34\/3 (August 2016): 1-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHomosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in the GDR\u201d in&nbsp;<em>The Long Postwar<\/em>&nbsp;edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, in 2014), pp. 343-362.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeeing Subjectivity: Erotic Photography and the Optics of Desire\u201d&nbsp;<em>American Historical Review<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 118, no. 2 (2013): 430-462.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForum: Cultural History and the Holocaust\u201d&nbsp;<em>German History<\/em>, vol. 31, no. 1 (March 2013): 61-85, with Monica Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cQueer Temporalities: Herbert Tobias und das Bild des schamlosen Selbst in der Zeit vor Stonewall\u201d in Susanne Regener and Katrin K\u00f6ppert (eds.)<em>, Privat\/\u00d6ffentlich. Visuelle Selbstentw\u00fcrfe. Mediale Szenarien von Homosexualit\u00e4t<\/em>&nbsp;(Vienna\/Berlin: Turia+Kant Verlag, 2012), &nbsp;111-130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistoricizing the Visual\u201d&nbsp;<em>German Studies Review<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 35 no. 3 (Fall 2012): 485-489.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRethinking Sexual Modernity in 20th Century Germany\u201d&nbsp;<em>Social History<\/em>&nbsp;vol.37 no. 3 (August 2012): 314-327, with Jane Freeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 1950s as Radical In-Between\u201d&nbsp; in Matt Cook and Heike Bauer (eds.),&nbsp;<em>Queer 50s<\/em>&nbsp;(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), &nbsp;13-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Violence of Survival and the Cost of War\u201d&nbsp;<em>German History<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 29 no. 2 (Spring 2011): 305-310.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLife Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Postwar Berlin,\u201d in Sabine Hake and Philip Broadbent (eds.),&nbsp;<em>Berlin Divided City, 1945-89<\/em>&nbsp;(New York: Berghahn, 2010), 11-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDecriminalization, Seduction, and \u2018Unnatural Desire\u2019 in the German Democratic Republic\u201d&nbsp;<em>Feminist Studies<\/em>&nbsp;vol 36.3 (October 2010): 553-77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Moral State: Men, Mining, and Masculinity in the Early GDR\u201d&nbsp;<em>German History,&nbsp;<\/em>Special Issue on the History of Sexuality), vol. 23, no. 3 (August 2005): 355-370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBahnhof Boys: Policing Male Prostitution in Post-Nazi Berlin,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of the History of Sexuality<\/em>&nbsp;12, no. 4 (October 2003), 605-636.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD \u2013 Completed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin Connell, \u201cSexual Education and Social Citizenship in Canada\u201d Department of Sociology. Ph.D. committee member, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean Eedy, PhD, \u201cComic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood.\u201d 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Freeland, PhD, \u201cDomestic Violence in East and West Berlin, 1969-89,\u201d 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*won university medal for best dissertation across all faculties<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Whitehouse, PhD, \u201c\u201dYou\u2019ll Get Used to It!\u201d: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43.\u201d 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*won best dissertation in German-Canadian Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meghan Lundrigan, PhD, \u201cHolocaust Memory and Visuality in the Age of Social Media.\u201d 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*nominated for a university medal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD \u2013 Ongoing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merle Ingenfeld, co-tutelle with the University of Cologne, \u201cThe Cure\u201d: A Transnational History of (Homo-)Sexual Conversion Therapy (1933\u20131973)\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan Jones, memory cultures in post-1945 West Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MA \u2013 Completed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karin Abma, MA EURUS,&nbsp; \u201cWomen in the GDR: Consumerism and the Political, 1953-70\u201d Institute for European and Russian Studies, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Chisholm, MA, \u201cAdvertising, Family Policy, and Women\u2019s \u2018Return to Normalcy\u2019 During the Adenauer Years,\u201c 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean Eedy, MA, \u201cNarrating the Berlin Wall: Nostalgia and the Negotiation of Memory 20 Years Later,\u201d 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erica Fagen, MA Public History, \u201cStaging the Holocaust: Sachsenhausen, Thanatourism, and Public Memory,\u201d 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Freeland, MA EURUS, \u201cSaying \u2018I\u2019: Women, Desire and Their Depiction in East Germany\u201d Institute of European and Russian Studies, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottilie Grisdale, MA EURUS \u201cArtistic Opposition to the Decline of Multiculturalism in the Netherlands,\u201d 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emmanuel Hogg, PhD, \u201cFootball Fan Culture in Berlin, 1961-1989,\u201d 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mandy Koroniak, MA Public History, \u201cImagery and Identity: Film and National Identity in the German Democratic Republic and Canada in the 1960s,\u201d 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie Lecroix, MA EURUS, \u201cChild Care Policy in Post 1989 Germany\u201d 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natalie Spagnuolo, MA, \u201cSexuality and Alternative Discourses in Jewish Prague: a Feminist Reading of the Works of Franz Werfel,\u201d 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan-Mark van der Leest, MA EURUS, \u201cSpace and Identity in post-1989 Berlin,\u201d 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meghan Lundrigan, MA Public History, \u201cHolocaust Denial in the Social Mediascape,\u201d 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Whitehouse, MA, \u201cStolpersteine: Moral Restitution after the Holocaust\u201d 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Cruddas-Wilkinson, MA, \u201cThe Future in Stone: Architecture as Expression of National Socialist Temporality\u201d 2016.alist Temporality\u201d 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27432,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jennifer V.","cu_people_last_name":"Evans","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[61],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-194","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor - 20th c. social; 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