PD Dr. Felix Krämer

Since 2017 Felix Krämer is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Erfurt University. He is board member at the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property“ as well as Principal Investigator for the subproject on “Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century.” He graduated in History, Political Sciences and Gender Studies at the University of Hamburg. After that he was Doctoral Student and Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster. In his doctoral thesis he focussed on media, religion and gender in the history of the US public from 1969 to 1989. His second book on the history of indebtedness focuses on debts difference in the US after the end of slavery. His research interests include the new history of capitalism, gender and body history, history of religion and media theory.

A picture of PD Dr. Felix Krämer.

Activities

Publications

  • Krämer, Felix (2024): "Leben auf Kredit. Menschen, Macht und Schulden in den USA vom Ende der Sklaverei bis in die Gegenwart", Frankfurt am Main (Habil., in preparation).
  • Krämer, F.; Gonzàlez Athenas, M. (2023): "Produzieren und argumentieren", In: Netzwerk „Das Versprechen der Märkte“, Marktgeschehen. Fragmente einer Geschichte frühneuzeitlichen Wirtschaftens, Frankfurt/M., p. 127-136.
  • Krämer, F.; Klein, B.(2022): "Transsektionalität als Fluchtlinie der Historiographie – James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man", In: FZG – Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien 28 (2022), p. 89-106.
  • Krämer, F.; Gottschalk, A.; Kersten, S. (eds.)(2018): Doing Space while Doing Gender – Vernetzungen von Raum und Geschlecht in Forschung und Politik, Bielefeld 2018.
  • Krämer, F. (2018): "Good News. Moral Masculinity, Whiteness, and the Media in Contemporary US History", In: Gerster, D.; Krüggeler, M. (eds.), God’s Own Gender? Religions and their Concepts of Masculinity, Würzburg: 2018, p. 65-84.
  • Krämer, F. (2016): "Schuldendifferenz. Intersektionale Verschränkungen zwischen Geschlecht und Ökonomie in der US-Zeitgeschichte", In: L'Homme. Z.f.G., Ökonomien, 27, 1 (2016), p. 91-104.
  • Krämer, Felix (2025): „Moral Leaders. Medien, Gender und Glaube in den USA der 1970er und 1980er Jahre“, Bielefeld 2015.

Events

  • Together with Jan Logemann, Felix Krämer initiated a roundtable discussion on “Racial Capitalism as a Concept for Writing U.S.-American History.”, the event was subject of a H-Soz-Kult podcast episode. (23.06.2023)

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