Lauren Stokes
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Historian at Northwestern. She/they. Migration/race/gender/sexuality in 20th century Germany.
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just got word that Fear of the Family is off to the printers, which seems like a good excuse for a thread. states that regulate family migration are regulating reproductive labor: who should do it? where?
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me, sobbing: "I haven't worked all week."
partner, gently: "you've facilitated two events, given feedback on three chapters, met with five students, and written eight recommendation letters."
me: "AS MY UNFINISHED BOOK EXPLAINS, ONLY IT HAS VALUE UNDER CAPITALISM"
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considering cold-e-mailing scholars whose work I am assigning in a seminar to see if they would consider Zooming into my class to talk about it with students--yes? no? best practices?
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the 2004 Spielberg film about Sir Mehran wildly misrepresents it--his memoir, Terminal Man, is a story about how the asylum process creates unreliable narrators and how border policies produce "refugees in orbit." rest in power.
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portrait of a person who has just learned that she was awarded tenure, and who just so happens to be carrying her gym bag from undergrad. full of emotions upon joining the big leagues: two are gratitude and rage.
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The books are finally here! The author, pictured here, recommends one of the book’s signature cocktails: the Kindergeld, a shot of Goldschlager in sparkling apple juice.
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an absolutely damning indictment of both UChicago (where I got my PhD) and Harvard
The text of the complaint filed by three Harvard graduate students against the school, with extensive documented harassment going back over decades.
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a milestone: my first peer review saying that "a native speaker of English really needs to look at this text."
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would like to read an article entirely about the awkward ways that historians invoke the present in the conclusions of their books.
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for the record: if you are assigning my work I will Zoom into your class for free, but I also don't value my own time!
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exciting professional news: I've started as a Book Reviews Editor
@ContEuroHistory
! we commission articles that review multiple books at a time--please get in touch if you want to re-evaluate the classics or to chart an emerging trend.
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and holy shit it's a pre-order link: you too can learn far too much about the "migrant family" in West German migration law on February 25, 2022!
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exciting news: NU is hiring an assistant professor in trans studies, applications due October 23! on the search comittee and happy to answer any questions about the job.
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just published "The 'Market-Conforming' Family: Foreign Families, The 'Grandmother Solution,' and the West German Welfare State" on
@ContEuroHistory
, which looks at how "guest worker" families managed childcare in West Germany.
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thinking about syllabi. a question for
#twitterstorians
and others: what was the most helpful assignment that you ever did in a graduate seminar, and why?
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peer review in the humanities takes so long that by the time I get reader reports I, too, can't imagine what kind of idiot could possibly have written the original piece.
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Teaching a new class this term on “Mediterranean Migrations” which is going to focus on contextualizing the ongoing struggle over the world’s deadliest border. I have a lot of ideas, but curious: what would you assign?
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thrilled to be among such good company!
. . . 🥁 The shortlist for the 2022
#WCGSBookPrize
is finally here! We are thrilled to announce the six finalists for the 2022 WCGS Book Prize, which recognizes first-time authors whose work contributes to our understanding of German-speaking society:
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New office decor just dropped. Deeply grateful to the students who made it easy.
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As a faculty member I support students’ right to peaceful protest—the university can live up to its values by continuing to engage in conversation, not criminalization.
"Northwestern University has an opportunity to be a model for the nation by continuing the path of engaging in good-faith conversations with students toward a productive and peaceful resolution without the shadow of arrests and suspensions," organizers said.
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an archive sent me a finding aid today and this is the first thing I saw. can't wait.
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I deleted an 800-word footnote and turned it into an outline for an article I will never have the time to write, which I'm going to pretend is progress.
#bookorbust
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finishing the book MS after eight years of work on this project, still having new realizations about my sources... which is just making me angrier about the neoliberal academy and the pressure to always make everything take less time.
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spooky news: I'm giving a talk auf Deutsch in December. Bitte melden Sie sich!
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@jeff_deeney
as a fellow poorly-socialized alum, I read three back-decades of the Maroon (roughly 1965-1995) while in graduate school, and felt like the normal one afterwards.
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teaching my bread-and-butter courses Spring Quarter before I go on research leave next year.
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Despite everything excited to give my first book talk in Wisconsin next week.
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excited for this
@ModEuroHistColl
event featuring
@JeffBsox
,
@emily_greble
,
@dbeaujon
,
@AnitaKurimay
and yours truly. mark those calendars!
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my new article in
@ContEuroHistory
, "An Invasion of Guest Worker Children": Welfare Reform and the Stigmatization of Family Migration in West Germany, examines the figure of the "Kindergeld migrant" in the 1970s
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this would be a fun topic for an article: Nasseri's life story is about how the refugee regime *profoundly fails* most refugees globally, but the feature film rewrote it to be a more familiar Cold-War-exile story because of course it did.
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@ztsamudzi
I already felt like the list of contributors was weirdly lacking in colonial history, but to learn they *willfully* excluded you is infuriating and shameful.
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I guess my two big anxieties: can I e-mail people I've never met? do I have to offer $$ if I am not asking them to guest-lecture, just to talk with students about their article?
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thrilled to see our special issue on "Bordering the GDR" now has a cover! longer thread about my article incoming.
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are there any *historians* who write about childcare infrastructure as part of the welfare state? ideally the European welfare state?
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Amtrak Chicago—Ann Arbor. Have always committed to the bit.
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proud to announce I have completed a graduate syllabus on *global* history that features 1.5 monographs by men.
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it has begun. we literally purchased and built the bookcase for the purposes of having a respectable Zoom background in this household.
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it feels so good to see the book in the wild!
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an excellent book on how German women mobilized against domestic violence—and bonus, it’s open access!
For the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women &
#16DaysOfActivismAgainstGBV
, a review by
@laurenstokes
of "Feminist Transformations & Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" by
@jec_free
@OUPAcademic
@OUPHistory
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posting a CFP for an edited volume on race and racism in East/West/post-1990 Germany.
@MichelleLKahn
and I are happy to answer questions on DM or e-mail.
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Schadenfreude: the feeling that if you can no longer be a historian of Germany, at least nobody can.
The next available appointment for a visit to the Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde – just for a single day, not even for a week – is the end of March 2021 😳
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chilling archival research: in January 1985, France wants Germany to step up its detention capacity for asylum seekers. "If the Asians and the smugglers realize, that the way to Europe via West Berlin ends in a camp... the refugee flow will dry up."
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this is definitely still a developing story, but today I'm happy to be on a campus that has prioritized dialogue rather than police force.
BREAKING: Student demonstrators wrapped up negotiations with the University Monday after five days of demonstrations.
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surviving the first week by the absolute skin of my teeth so far but here we are
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if any Germany-based scholars would be interested in writing an essay on why this is bad for your Anglophone colleagues (and maybe reviewing some books on academic precarity along the way), I would be interested in publishing it
@ContEuroHistory
. get in touch.
Das Bundeskabinett hat heute die Reform des
#WissZeitVG
beschlossen. Damit verbessern wir die Arbeitsbedingungen für
#Wissenschaftlerinnen
und
#Wissenschaftler
. 🎓
Alle Details sind hier nachzulesen:
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Grades are in, so it’s time to manifest a sabbatical by making a “Sabbatical” courtesy of
@pjstelzel
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@ASPertierra
“Reading” a book in a day and being able to cite it and/or use it in a lecture actually will be a skill you can use for the rest of a professorial career. Does the process make this clear? No. But do I do it 2-3 times a week now? Yes.
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while preparing for class I found Ludwig Erhard as Playmobil and all I can say is where is the cigar
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reminded today that I have never engaged in the "students don't read the syllabus" discourse, in part because I am disorganized enough that my own students frequently point out contradictions within my syllabus🤦
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you can now read my thoughts on guest worker historiography, including our need for a "Sozialgeschichte der Spargelzeit"
Hot off the press: I've edited a "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" special issue on migration in contemporary history, many thanks to the contributors!
#migration
#germanstudies
#transit
#migknow
#borderlands
#displacedpersons
#transnational
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Racial Profiling in der BRD, eigentlich, aber der Artikel ist lesenswert!
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I signed this because it's insulting to imagine that this is affecting faculty research (which it is!) but not grad research. last I checked grad research also requires income, childcare, library access, space for grief, and occasionally 24 hours without a panic attack.
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@erhochman
@tnflorvil
Literally the only thing the president of the AHA needs to be talking about to a mass media publication is adjunctification! And also bills against teaching actual history to students! That’s it! It’s wild to spend a second of breath on anything else!!!
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shot
#2
is in the arm and this is the selfie I took; it does capture the essential facts that I only wear hoodies now and never want to see myself on a screen again.
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like a chump, finished this sucker in the first week of quarantine. what am I going to do now?
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Love doing “research” at the historic Munich airport brewery.
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overheard partner telling someone on the phone "Lauren's favorite West German social theorist is actually very helpful in understanding why Canada declined to issue a travel ban" so at least romance isn't dead
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confession: I have both a "I got tenure and here's why I'm angry" and a "I didn't get tenure and here's why I'm angry" thread ready to go and the silver lining of Twitter ending is definitely that I'll never post either
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reeling from the news in both Texas and Ukraine. as a teacher continuing to feel profoundly, stupidly inadequate to the moment.
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@feinsod
I’ve increasingly been thinking that “we must protect grad students from the academic market” reflects the fact that most faculty have no idea of the degree to which every other job market has also collapsed
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was thrilled to go on
@spassbremse_pod
to talk about Germany's permanent migration crisis--
@ted_knudsen
was such a great interviewer that I learned some new things about my work in the process. take a listen:
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just had a great time recording a
@NewBooksGerman
podcast with
@PFLerner
--excited about sharing my thoughts on why historians should read more theory, and why I wrote a book with so many husbands in it.
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@MariusKothor
Gloria Wekker for sure! The Dutch are usually a case study in the “homonationalism” literature. Chelsea Schields is doing great historical work on Dutch disavowal of the Caribbean.
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Family migration is the most important legal pathway into many countries today, so politicians who want to attack migration will attack *family* migration—which means attacking foreign gender norms, pregnant women, and foreign children.
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not ready for the summer to be over, but at least there's this
@GLMosseProgram
event to look forward to on September 14. really enjoying revisiting Kira's book in preparation!
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Happy to report they were not lying. I ordered six boxes and got this. Almost nothing is labeled.
an archive sent me a finding aid today and this is the first thing I saw. can't wait.
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This is big “I have papers to grade” energy to expend before term starts (and yes there are also clean bathrooms and newly alphabetized bookshelves)
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Had office hours in the lobby of Harris because I didn’t realize that it was a holiday and students would be locked out of my actual office. Seven students came. One gave me a snack.
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have finished major book revisions but don't know how to get up the courage to send them back to my editor.
#havewritten
#havenotacceptedthisfact
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useful statistics for those who care about the Midwest or about the history profession--a *minimum* of 182 tenure-track lines lost in public universities in the Midwest in the last decade or so.
Eye-opening statistics in
@MiddleWestRev
reveal just how many History faculty positions have been axed in recent years in the Midwest, part of a broader national crisis. 1/4
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happy to learn that the H-Soz-Kult review is out, and it's positive?!?
“Lauren Stokes [
@laurenstokes
] hat eine herausragende Studie, die Musterbeispiel für eine intersektionale Migrationsgeschichte ist.” STIMMT.
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just had the annual "Northwestern students elect the German government" mock election and I am pleased to announce a Red-Green coalition, no AfD in sight
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if you wanted to read about refugees in West Germany, or the distinction between the "economic refugee" and the "genuine refugee," I have you covered.
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Got unexpected good news about a grant; saw two rabbits while leaving work; still have 35 papers to grade this weekend but feeling springy.
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kicking off the new German Studies Seminar at the Newberry tomorrow, wishing the topic were a little more irrelevant.
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Packed house for “Reconstructing the German-American Alliance after 1945” on the second day of
#thegsa2022
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Others may prefer “mein ganzes Babydasein macht mir keine Freude mehr,” which consists of two ounces of raki, one egg white, the juice of a small lemon, and three dashes of bitters, shaken and served over ice.
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writing a paragraph about “how Germans discussed racism in 2024” that won’t be published until 2025 or 2026 and losing my mind.
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reminder that the deadline for the
@ContEuroHistory
prize for "early career" scholars is September 8! as a brand-new editor I'm looking forward to reading even brander-new scholarship on Europe's last 105 years:
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in my 7th year of college teaching I still write lectures at 4 AM on the day I have to give them. I am deeply ashamed of this fact. my partner, who loves me, calls it "just-in-time lecture production by the post-Fordist professor."
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call for papers: the second year of the German Studies works-in-progress seminar
@NewberryLibrary
-- we plan to remain on Zoom next academic year, so please consider applying!
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giving talk
@zzfpotsdam
on Thursday about ongoing research into border policing in East and West Berlin. perk of a German audience: don't have to explain cultural significance of
#Tatort
.
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extremely disorienting to start 2023 by proofing an article you finished in June 2020 but this is still going to be🔥 when it drops.
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First review is in. This account will be announcing the signature cocktail for
#FearoftheFamily
in due course.
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For everyone who knows one sentence about guest workers: The Frisch quote is “A small master race feels itself in danger. We wanted workers, but humans came.” Want to quote the second half? Also quote the first half, and grapple with what race might mean for your analysis.
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book writers of the world, how did you write the acknowledgments without becoming absolutely paralyzed by the anxiety that you would inadvertently forget someone?
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a student came to office hours to wish me "good vibes" which always makes me wonder what kind of chaotic energy I put off but I did desperately need them so thanks student
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