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Since October 2020, Mieke Roscher is chair of Social and Cultural History and the History of Human-Animal Relations (Human-Animal Studies). Born and raised Göttingen, she moved on to study English, History, Political and Educational Sciences at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, the London School of Economics, Middlesex University und the University of Bremen. In 2008 she finished her PhD on the history of the British animal rights movement followed by a postdoc fellowship at the German Historical Institute in London. Between 2011 and 2013 she was trained as a research librarian at the State Library of Oldenburg and acquired another master’s degree in Information and Library Science. From 2014-2020 she held the position of an assistant professor at the University of Kassel, a position that was integrated in the LOEWE-center “Tier-Mensch-Gesellschaft” (Humans-Animals-Society) of which she became the spokesperson in 2017. In 2020 she completed her Habilitation on animal historiography.

Mieke Roscher’s research interests are animal history and human-animal studies, gender and colonial history, the history of Great Britain, the history of national socialism as well as the history of social movements. She is an associate with the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, co-founder of the “Forum Tiere und Geschichte” (Forum Animals and History), a member of the “Forschungsinitiative Tiertheorie” (Research Initiative Animals and Theory) and, with Christian Jaser and Nadir Weber, co-editor of the Tiere in der Geschichte / Animals in History“ book-series, published with Böhlau.