Jenny Wüstenberg

Jenny R. Wüstenberg (born 1977) is a German political scientist at York University in Toronto.

Wüstenberg is a co-founder and co-president of the Memory Studies Association, co-chair of the Research Network on Transnational Memory and Identity in the Council for European Studies, and co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Network in the German Studies Association. Wüstenberg is a leader in uniting the emerging field of Memory Studies.

Life

Jenny Wüstenberg received a BA (Hons) in International Relations from the University of Sussex in 2000, an MA in International Communication from Macquarie University in 2002, and an MA and PhD in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. Wüstenberg has held previous academic positions at American University in Washington D.C., at the Free University Berlin, and with the Independent Academic Commission at the Federal Ministry of Justice for the Critical Study of the National Socialist Past.

Jenny Wüstenberg’s research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and memory studies, and is animated by concerns over the integrity of modern democracy, the importance of historical legacies in contemporary politics, and the cultural underpinnings of political power. Her scholarship focuses on memory activism in Germany, Europe, settler colonial societies, and in transnational settings, as well as on the link between commemoration, democratization, and institutional change. She has also written about the development of memory studies as a field.

In 2017 she was appointed to the Commission on "Memory Cultures of Social Democracy" hosted by the renowned Hans-Böckler-Stiftung in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Key Publications

• Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, September 2017). Shortlisted for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize, 2017, and for the 2018 European Studies Book Award.
• Contesting Memory and Citizenship in Canada, Special Issue of Citizenship Studies Vol.22, No.4, edited with Michael Nijhawan and Daphne Winland (June 2018).
• Transnational Memory Politics in Europe, Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary European Studies, edited with Aline Sierp (September 2015).
• Memory Studies – the State of the Field Memory Studies Vol.10, No.4, with Anamaria Dutceac-Segesten (October 2017).
• Vernetztes Gedenken? Netzwerkmethoden und Transnationale Erinnerungsforschung Jahrbuch für Politik und Geschichte, Thema: ‘Geschichtspolitik und Erinnerungskulturen global,’ Band 6, 2016.
• Transforming Berlin’s Memory: Non-State Actors and GDR Memorial Politics Today in Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany, edited by David Clarke and Ute Wölfel, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2011.
• Vom alternativen Laden zum Dienstleistungsbetrieb: the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt – A Case Study in Activist Memory Politics German Studies Review, Vol.32 No.3, October 2009.
• Using the Past in the Nazi-Successor States from 1945 to the Present in the Annals of the Academy of the Social and Political Sciences, Vol.6/7, May 2008, with David Art.

External Links

• Memory Studies Association
• Council for European Studies
• Jenny Wüstenberg at York University.

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