Dr. Anja Schüler

Anja Schüler joined the HCA in 2009 as a research associate She also coordinates events, is responsible for public relations, and has hosted the HCA podcast since April 2020. She previously taught at the Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University and the Heidelberg University of Education. She is the author of Frauenbewegung und Sozialreform: Jane Addams und Alice Salomon im transatlantischen Dialog, 1889-1933 (2004) and co-editor of Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933 (1997), Politische Netzwerkerinnen: Women's International Collaborations 1830-1960 (2007), and Forging Bonds Across Borders: Transatlantic Collaborations for Women's Rights and Social Justice in the Long Nineteenth Century (2017). She studied modern history, American Studies and journalism at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, the University of Georgia in Athens, and the Freie Universität Berlin. After research stays at the University of Minnesota and in Washington, D.C., she received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 2000. 

• German and US Social History
• Women’s History
• Transnational History

Since 2009: Research Associate at the HCA
2006-2009: Adjunct Lecturer Heidelberg University of Education
2003-2005: Adjunct Lecturer Humboldt University Berlin
2001-2002: Adjunct Lecturer John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Free University Berlin 
2000: PhD Free University Berlin
1984-1992: MA (History, American Studies, Journalism) Free University Berlin and University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

Der Kongress tanzt – Nicht! Frauenkongresse als Orte der Kommunikation, Politik und Vernetzung. Ed. with K. Wolff. Kassel: Archiv der Deutschen Frauenbewegung, 2020.
“Formen, Bilder, Sprache: Frauenbewegungskulturen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert.” In D. Linnemann, (Ed.): Damenwahl! 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. Frankfurt/M.: Societäts-Verlag, 2018, pp 82-85.
Forging Bonds Across Borders: Transatlantic Collaborations for Women’s Rights and Social Justice in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. with B. Waldschmidt-Nelson. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2017.
Politische Netzwerkerinnen: Internationale Zusammenarbeit von Frauen, 1830-1960. Ed. with E. Schöck-Quinteros, A. Wilmers and K. Wolff. Berlin: trafo verlag, 2007.
Frauenbewegung und soziale Reform: Jane Addams und Alice Salomon im transatlantischen Dialog, 1889-1933. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004.
Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1880-1930. Ed. with K. Sklar and S. Strasser. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

• Since 2020 host of the HCA podcast „Quo Vadis USA?“
• Head of the project “Kurt Klein und Gerda Weissmann-Klein: Jewish Exile in the United States”
• HCA event coordinator