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Barbara Picht: Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions:

since 2017 Research associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
2010-2011 Visiting professorship for the Chair in Modern Cultural History at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)
2009-2017 Research associate at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)

Teaching and research fellowships:

2009 Ernst Cassirer Chair at the University of Hamburg
2001 Research grant of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC

Habilitation:

2020 Habilitation (Neuere und Neueste Geschichte) at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)

PhD thesis:

Nov. 2006 Doctorate at the Department of Historical and Cultural Sciences of the Free University Berlin. PhD title: „A forced way out. Hermann Broch, Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Kantorowicz in their Princeton exile“
1997-2006 Doctoral studies at Free University Berlin and head of the „Literaturhandlung“, a bookshop in Berlin specializing on Jewish studies and literature (until 2008)

Education:

1990-1996 Studies of philosophy and history at the University of Stuttgart (until 1991) and at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Master’s thesis on „The ethical theory of Hans Jonas“