Katrin Bahr
Assistant Professor of German 鈥 Fulbright Fellowship Advisor
Chair, German, Chinese, and Japanese
Offices & Programs
Education
BA: social sciences, (politics, sociology, gender studies), Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin, Germany
MA: social sciences, (politics, sociology, gender studies), Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin, Germany
PhD: German & Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
BIOGRAPHY
Katrin Bahr joined the 国标麻豆视频APP faculty in 2020. Her research and teaching interests include GDR History, Culture and Memory, Socialism in Post-colonial Africa, Photography, Women and Gender Studies, and post-1989 East-German literature and film.
Her dissertation Postcolonial Solidarity: East Germans in Mozambique, 1979-1990 offers a first detailed look at the everyday life and work experiences of East German citizens living in Mozambique in the 1980s. She has curated photo-exhibitions about the everyday life experiences of East Germans in Mozambique which were shown in the USA, Mozambique, and Germany. She is also the co-founder of the Third Generation Ost network in the United States.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
- 2018 Research Grant, Central European History Society (Dissertation research in Germany)
- 2017 Dissertation Fieldwork Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Dissertation research in Mozambique)
- 2015-2016 Fellowship, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies (Dissertation research in Germany)
- 2021 Deutsch Macht Spass Grant, AATG
- 2021 鈥淐ampus Weeks 2021 鈥 Time To Act,鈥 Germany Embassy
- 2021 Nominee, 鈥淔ood for Thought鈥 鈥 Next Generation Scholarship in German Studies, German Studies Association
- 2021 Grant for event: 鈥淭he Right-Wing East? 鈥 A Generational Journey from the GDR to the Present,鈥 Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chicago
- 2022 German Teacher of the Year, AATG-KY
- 2024 DEFA Film Library Program Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- German Studies Association (GSA)
- AATG (General & Kentucky)
- Central European History Society (CEHS)
- Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA)
- Women in German (WIG)
- Third Generation Ost
- Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum, mutal aid group (DDGC)
COURSES TAUGHT
- Elementary German
- Intermediate German
- Umwelt und Natur
- When Women Speak 鈥 From Rosa Luxemburg to Angela Davis
- Falsifying German History in Images
- Aktivismus in Deutschland: Von den 68ern zu Black Lives Matter
- The African Origins of the Holocaust (abroad)
- Namibia: From Genocide to Activism
- Senior Colloquium
- Brave New Worlds: Dystopian and Utopian Societies
- International Short Stories
- Love and Sex Under Socialism
- Belonging: Holocaust and Nakba
- Culture and Media in Modern Germany
PUBLICATIONS
- Bahr, Katrin. 鈥淏etween State Mission and Everyday Life: Private Photographs of East Germans in Mozambique in the 1980s.鈥 Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings, Exchanges and (Dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany. Eds., Harisch, Immanuel R., Anne Dietrich, Marcia C. Schenk, and Eric Burton. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 319-349.
- Bahr, Katrin. "Hinterlassene Spuren: Selbstbild und Weltbild. DDR-ExpertInnen in Mosambik." Fu虉r Respekt und Anerkennung. Die mosambikanischen Vertragsarbeiter und das schwierige Erbe der DDR, Studienreihe der Landesbeauftragten, Eds., Birgit Neumann- Becker and Hans-Joachim D枚ring. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag GmbH, 2020, 131-144.
- Bahr, Katrin and Melanie Lorek. 鈥溾楯a, wohin gehen sie denn?鈥: Die 鈥3. Generation Ostdeutscher zwischen Suchen und Finden am Beispiel des 1.5 Generationskonzeptes.鈥 Die Generation der Wendekinder: Elaboration eines Forschungsfeldes, Eds., Lettrari, Adriana, Christian Nestler and Nadja Troi-Boeck, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2017, 255-277.
- Bahr, Katrin. 鈥溾Wie war das damals鈥 鈥 Blitzlicht.鈥 Wie war das fu虉r Euch?: Die Dritte Generation Ost im Gespr盲ch mit ihren Eltern, Eds., Enders, Judith C, Mandy Schulze, and Bianca Ely, Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2016, 66-67.
- Bahr, Katrin. 鈥鈥 In Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum. Blog, June 18, 2019.
- Bahr, Katrin. 鈥鈥 In Third Generation Ost: New Perspectives on the German Democratic Republic. Blog, September 17, 2018.
- Kinder Pal盲stinas 鈥 鈥淭he Children of Palestine鈥 (dir. Kurt Tetzlaff, 1980, 54 min) (subtitles, 2024) Aida 鈥 鈥淎ida鈥 (dir. Marwan Salamah, 1985, 22 min) (subtitles 2024) 鈥om Olivenbaum 鈥 鈥溾bout the Olive Tree鈥 (dir. Marwan Salamah, 1987, 28 min) (subtitles 2024)
- Bahr, Katrin. Art in Networks; GDR and its Global Relations (film project 2022),
- Bahr, Katrin. 鈥淓ast Germany in Mozambique: Private Photographs of a Forgotten Time,鈥 Radio GDR Podcast, January 19, 2021.