Dr. Thomas Kailer

Thomas Kailer has been Managing Director of INCHER since January 2013.
He studied history, German and English language and literature and completed his doctorate in history at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, he was the coordinator of the DFG Collaborative Research Center "Knowledge Cultures and Social Change" at the University of Frankfurt. In 2004, he moved to the Chair of Contemporary History at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where he worked as a research assistant until 2006. From 2006 to 2012, he was Dean's Officer and Coordinator for Teaching and Student Affairs in the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen.

Dr. Thomas Kailer - Publications

• KAILER, Thomas (2012): The residue of evil. The difficulty of reallyexplaining serial murder. In: Giessener Universitätsblätter 45, pp. 19-28.

• KAILER, Thomas (2011): Measuring the criminal. The Criminal Biological Investigation in Bavaria, 1923-1945. Bielefeld: transcript.

• KAILER, Thomas; Schwöbel, Christian (2007): Unterwerfung mit Schriftenverbrennung: Die "Große nationale Kundgebung" der Ludwigs-Universität am 8. Mai 1933. in: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins 92, pp. 81-116.

• KAILER, Thomas (2007): Fragmentation and normalization of the criminal body. Exception standards in the criminal investigation, 1923-1945. In: Christina Bartz/Marcus Krause (eds.): Spectacle of normalization. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 249-268.

• KAILER, Thomas (2007): "Intelligent, but reckless." - Female prisoners in the criminal-biological investigation, 1923-1945. In: Sabine Freitag/Desirée Schauz (eds.): Verbrecher im Visier der Experten. Criminal policy between science and practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 117-137.

• KAILER, Thomas (2003) "... laying the head at the feet of the infernal spawn". On the psychology of the punishing society. The Haarmann case. In: Hans-Joachim Heue/Hans-Dieter Klosa/Burkhard Lange/Hans-Dieter Schmid (eds.): Von der Polizei der Obrigkeit zum Dienstleister für öffentliche Sicherheit. Commemorative publication on the 100th anniversary of the Hanover Police Headquarters, 1903 - 2003. Hilden, pp. 69-88.

• KAILER, Thomas (2003): Werewolves, sex offenders, inferior psychopaths. Conditions of knowledge popularization. The Haarmann case. In: Carsten Kretschmann (ed.): Wissenspopularisierung. Konzepte der Wissensverbreitung im Wandel (= Knowledge Culture and Social Change, Volume 4). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 323-359.

• FRIED, Johannes; KAILER, Thomas (eds.) (2003): Cultures of knowledge. Contributions to a strategic research concept. (= Knowledge Culture and Social Change, Volume 1). Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

• KAILER, Thomas (2002): Knowledge and plausibility. The constructive content of biological social theories around 1900 and their socio-political effectiveness. In: Claus Zittel (ed.): Wissen und soziale Konstruktion (= Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, vol. 3). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 231-251.