Dagmar Herzog

Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She writes and teaches on the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath, the histories of religion and Jewish-Christian relations, and the histories of gender and sexuality. She was the recipient of an SSRC Sexuality Research Fellowship in 1998–1999, which supported the research for Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton University Press, 2005). She is the author, most recently, of Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). She is completing an annotated translation of work by the first European psychoanalyst since Freud to declare that homosexuality is not a pathology: the radical Swiss analyst, ethnographer, and artist Fritz Morgenthaler.