Curriculum vitae

Extended CV

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April 2024: Einreichung der Dissertation ?Beyond the Pale – White Southern Female Activists and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968”

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2022-2023: Gender Equity: Stipendium für exzellenten wissenschaflichen Nachwuchs des Büros für Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre, Universit?t Augsburg

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2020: Short-term Doctoral Research Fellowship am German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. (USA)

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2018:?Post-Graduate Research Fellowship am?Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Science (REGSS), Duke University (USA); verliehen von der Bayerisch-Amerikanischen Akademie (BAA)

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Seit 2016:?Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Promotionsstudentin am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte des europ?isch-transatlantischen Kulturraums der Universit?t Augsburg.

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2016:?Master of Arts mit der Arbeit über ?I Made the Silent Vow to Make My Own Voice Heard“: Wei?e Frauen im Civil Rights Movement in den USA, 1960-1965.

Dreimonatiges Forschungspraktikum am German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika.

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2014-2015:?Studentische Hilfskraft am Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Berlin.

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2013-2014:?Studienaufenthalt an der Royal Holloway University of London, Vereintes K?nigreich, im Rahmen des Europ?ischen Stipendienprogramms ?Erasmus“.

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2012-2016:?Studium der Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts an der Freien Universit?t Berlins.

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2012:?Bachelor of Arts mit der Arbeit über ?Life in Mormon Bondage“: Ann Eliza Young und ihre politische Rolle im Kampf gegen die Polygamie.

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2010-2012:?Studentische Hilfskraft am Heidelberg Center for American Studies.

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2008-2012:?Studium der Geschichtswissenschaft sowie der Politikwissenschaft an der Ruprecht-Karls- Universit?t Heidelberg.

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Biographical Sketch

Clara-Sophie H?hn studied history and political science at Heidelberg University, the Free University of Berlin, and the Royal Holloway University of London. Since graduating in 2016, she has been a research assistant at the Department for Transatlantic History and Culture at Augsburg University. In April 2024, she handed in her dissertation Beyond the Pale: White Southern Female Activists and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 – 1968, under the academic supervision of Prof. Dr. Waldschmidt-Nelson. Clara H?hn participated in numerous conferences and workshops in the last seven years. In 2020, her article, “Putting My Body on the Line. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland und das Jackson Woolworth Sit-in von 1963,” was published in the journal Body Politics. Furthermore, she has received various research fellowships and grants. 2018 she spent a few months at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Science at Duke University. In early 2020, she was a short-time doctoral research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. In 2022 and 2023, Clara H?hn received a “Stipendium für exzellenten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchst” from the Gender Equity Office of the Univeristy of Augsburg.

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Publikationen

H?hn, Clara-Sophie. ?Putting My Body on the Line: Joan Trumpauer Mulholland und das Woolworth Sit-In von 1963.“ Body Politics 7.11 (2019): 159-178. (Peer Reviewed)? PDF

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H?hn, Clara-Sophie und Anna Lindmair, Julian Rauch. Tagungsbericht: Human Dignity and Human Rights: The Legacy of the Black Civil Rights Movement in the Transatlantic World, 08.09.2021-10.09.2021 Tutzing, in: H-Soz-Kult, November 3, 2021.

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Aktuelle Vortr?ge

31.01.2024: Beyond the Pale – White Southern Female Activists and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

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31.03.2022: Race, Gender, and the Right to Vote – White Southern Women and the Fight for Racial Equality in the Deep South,

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09.09.2021:?Being Part of the Narrative? White Southern Female Activists and the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

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08.02.2021: Which Side Are You On? White Southern Female Activists Coming to Terms with Their Racial Identity

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23.06.2021: Beyond the Pale – White Southern Female Activists in the Civil Rights Movements, 1954-1968

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24.11.2020: Der K?rper im Sozialen Protest?- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland und das Jackson Woolworth Sit-In von 1963

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25.06.2020: Turning Oneself Inside Out?-?White Southern Women on the Route Towards Civil Rights Activism

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Promotionsvorhaben

Beyond the Pale - White Southern Female Activists and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.
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Forschungsschwerpunkte

American History of the 19^th?and 20^th?Century; Gender Studies; The History of Social Protest Movements; African American History; Intersectionality.

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