Julia Herzberg Completes Her Dissertation
March 2011
15.06.2011
Research Fellow Julia Herzberg defended her dissertation, entitled "Gegenarchive: Bäuerliche Autobiografik zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion (1861-1937),'' in early March 2011 at Bielefeld University. Her dissertation, which examined farmers' autobiographies in the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union, was reviewed by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Stephan Merl (Bielefeld University) and Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg (University of Bremen). Both her defense and the disseratation itself were awarded summa cum laude.
Herzberg's research was inspired by her participation in the graduate program "Archiv, Macht, Wissen: Organisieren, Kontrollieren, Zerstören von Wissensbeständen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart" (Archives, Power, Knowledge: Organization, Control, and Destruction of Knowledge from the Antique to the Present) at Bielefeld University.