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Dr. Nina Mackert

Dr. Nina Mackert

Research Fellow

Comparative Cultural and Social History of Modern Europe
INTERIM-Staatsanwalts.LPZ
Straße des 17. Juni 2, Room 121
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37186

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Abstract

Nina Mackert is a historian and works as a research fellow in the interdisciplinary project "LeipzigLab - Global Health". In the winter semester of 2024/25, she will be interim Professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt.


Her research is located in the fields of North American and transatlantic cultural history and history of knowledge, in the history of bodies, eating, and health, in critical ability studies, and the new history of capitalism. She has just finished her second book, a US and transatlantic history of the calorie (under contract with NYU Press).


Her work has been supported by the German Research Foundation, the VolkswagenStiftung, the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., the Organization of American Historians, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

She is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Body Politics" and co-founder as well as -editor of the academic blog "Food, Fatness, Fitness—Critical Perspectives."

Professional career

  • 09/2022 - 12/2022
    Visiting Professor at the Chair of Modern European History, FernUniversität Hagen
  • since 09/2019
    Research Fellow, University of Leipzig, in the Leipzig Lab “Global Health”
  • 10/2015 - 08/2019
    Assistant Professor, Erfurt University, in the joint research project “Nutrition, Health, and Modern Society: Germany and the US”
  • 10/2012 - 09/2015
    Assistant Professor, Erfurt University, in the research project “The Eating Self: A Political History of the Unites States from the 19th to the 21st Century”
  • 04/2011 - 08/2011
    Research Assistant, Erfurt University, in the research project: „Traces of Mind Control in Cold War Culture”
  • 10/2009 - 03/2010
    Instructor/Lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
  • 10/2007 - 03/2008
    Instructor/Lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Education

  • 10/2014 - 04/2024
    Second Book Project: The Career of the Calorie: A History of Measuring Food, Bodies, and Choices in the US, 1880s – 1930s
  • 04/2013 - 01/2016
    Didactic Training: Certificate for University Didactics of the HIT Thüringen
  • 01/2008 - 11/2012
    PhD in History (summa cum laude), Erfurt University
  • 10/2001 - 03/2007
    MA in History, Gender and Queer Studies, and Political Science, University of Hamburg (with honors)

Research Interests include North American and Transatlantic Cultural History, Critical Ability Studies, History of Food, Nutrition, and Health, New History of Capitalism, History of Family and Youth, Historical Theory.

  • Arbeitsgruppe „Global Health“ im Leipzig Lab
    Möhring, Maren
    Duration: 10/2019 – 09/2024
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Vgl. Kultur- /Gesellschaftsgeschichte d. modernen Europas (18.-21.Jhd); Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Transregionalisierungsprozesse
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  • DFG Scientific Network "Fat Studies"
    Schorb, Friedrich
    Duration: 09/2018 – ongoing
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Vgl. Kultur- /Gesellschaftsgeschichte d. modernen Europas (18.-21.Jhd)
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  • Pandemic Space: Understanding Quarantine and Responsibilization in Times of Corona
    Möhring, Maren
    Duration: 04/2022 – 03/2025
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Vgl. Kultur- /Gesellschaftsgeschichte d. modernen Europas (18.-21.Jhd); Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Transregionalisierungsprozesse
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more projects

  • Mackert, N.
    Eat Your Way to Health. A History of Ability in the Progressive Era
    Journal of American Studies. 2023. 57 (2). pp. 154–177.
    DOI: 10.1017/s0021875822000329
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  • Mackert, N.
    Critical Ability History. Für eine Zeitgeschichte der Fähigkeitsnormen
    Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History. 2022. 19 (2). pp. 341–354.
    DOI: 10.14765/ZZF.DOK-2434
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  • Mackert, N.
    „Work, Burn, Eat. Abilities of Calorimetric Bodies in the US, 1890–1930“,
    Rethinking History . 2019. 23 (2). pp. 189–209.
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  • Möhring, M.; Mackert, N.
    Prävention, ability und Verantwortung in Zeiten von Corona
    Geschichte und Gesellschaft . 2020. 46 (3). pp. 443–455.
    DOI: 10.13109/gege.2020.46.3.443
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  • Mackert, N.
    Gesundes Essen Messen. Proteine, Kalorien und die Geschichte des Diskurses rund um gesunde Ernährung
    Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. 2023. 73 (30-32). pp. 34–40.
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more publications

  • (IPS): Konflikte

    BA-Class, 2018/2019, University of Erfurt

  • Famine, Fat, Frozen Food. Food and Diet in the 19th and 20th Century

    BA-Class, 2018, University of Erfurt

  • Messen zwischen Labor und Bevölkerung. Zur Wissensgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

    BA-Class (with Felix Krämer), 2016, University of Erfurt

  • Schlüsseltexte und -konzepte der Nordamerikanischen Geschichte: Class

    BA-Class (with Felix Krämer), 2016, University of Erfurt

  • Schlüsseltexte und -konzepte der Nordamerikanischen Geschichte: Sex und Gender

    BA-Class, 2015/2016, University of Erfurt

  • Webbasiertes historisches Forschen zur Geschichte der Jugend in den USA des 20. Jahrhunderts

    BA-Class, 2014/2015, University of Erfurt

  • (IPS): Revolte und Revolution

    BA-Class, 2013/2014, University of Erfurt

  • Cooking, Carbs, and Chewing Parties. Essen und Gesellschaft in den USA, 1850-1930

    MA-Class, 2013/2014, University of Erfurt

  • Gender Trouble. Von der Frauengeschichte zur Queer Theory

    BA-Class, 2013, University of Erfurt

  • Queer Theory und Intersektionalität

    BA-Class (with Kathrin Ganz and Do Gerbig), 2009/2010, University of Hamburg

  • Felder der Genderforschung und Queer Studies, Zwischen politischer Intervention und theoretischer Reflexion

    BA-Class (with Felix Krämer), 2007/2008, University of Hamburg