Research

Annika Padoan

PhD Candidate

padoan(at)dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21735-76

Working at the Dubnow Institute as a PhD candidate since October 2024, funded by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund.

Studied History, Political Sciences and Cultural Studies at the universities of Leipzig, Jena, Ottawa and Jerusalem and completed her M.A. degree in 2022 with a thesis on the trial of Klaus Barbie in 1987. From 2023 to 2024 she worked as an editor at De Gruyter Brill.

Prizes and Awards

2023                Research grant by the Forum Anwaltsgeschichte

2023                Hubert Steiner Recognition Prize for outstanding academic work on resistance, persecution and exile during the period of fascism and National Socialism as well as dealing with this past after 1945 and on the history of the labor movement

Dissertation Project

Holocaust, Résistance, Colonial Atrocities. Conflicts of Memory in the Trial of Klaus Barbie, Lyon 1987

 

Research Interests

Holocaust memory in the 20th and 21st century
Social and intellectual history of the political left

 

Publications

Essays and Articles

Gedächtnisse im Konflikt. Die Erinnerung an Holocaust und Kolonialverbrechen im Prozess gegen Klaus Barbie, 1987, in: Christine Schindler (ed.), Nach der Befreiung. Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des Österreichischen Widerstands, Berlin 2026, 113–139.

Personenverzeichnis [Register of persons], in: Karoline Lemke/Wolfgang Thöner (eds.), bauhaus. sprachrohr der studierenden. organ der kostufra, Kritische Leseausgabe (Edition Bauhaus, Bd. 62), Leipzig 2022, 335–340 (together with Anke Blümm).

Felicia Hart, geb. Schulsinger, in: Jüdische Gelehrte an der Universität Leipzig. Teilhabe, Benachteiligung und Ausschluss [Jewish Scholars at the University of Leipzig. Participation, Discrimination and Expulsion] (Web portal of the Dubnow Institute), 2022.