Dagmar Herzog
National Socialism and Holocaust, History of Sexuality, Disability History, Psychoanalysis, Intellectual History, History of Religion
1979 to 1983, studies in political science and French literature at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. 1984 to 1991 MA and PhD studies in European history at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 1991 PhD dissertation on religious politics in 1830s-1840s Germany. 1991 to 1997 Assistant Professor of History and 1997 to 2005 Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, East Lansing. 1993 to 1994 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Harvard University and 2002 to 2003 Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 2005 to 2012 Professor of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Since 2012 Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Guest teaching at Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Freie Universität Berlin, Johns Hopkins University, and Cornell University.
Herzog, Dagmar 2025: The New Fascist Body. Berlin: Wirklichkeit Books.
Herzog, Dagmar 2025: Der Faschismus in den Köpfen, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 75. 32-35 (2. August), 11-19.
Herzog, Dagmar 2024: Eugenische Phantasmen: Eine deutsche Geschichte. Berlin: Suhrkamp. [English: Herzog, Dagmar 2024: The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.]
Herzog, Dagmar 2023: Cold War Freud: Psychoanalyse in einem Zeitalter der Katastrophen. Berlin: Suhrkamp. [English: Herzog, Dagmar 2017: Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.]
Herzog, Dagmar 2018: Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Herzog, Dagmar 2018: Lust und Verwundbarkeit: Zur Zeitgeschichte der Sexualität in Europa und den USA. Göttingen: Wallstein.
Herzog, Dagmar 2011: Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History/ Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
Herzog, Dagmar 2005: Die Politisierung der Lust. Sexualität in der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. München: Siedler. [English: Herzog, Dagmar 2005: Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.]
Herzog, Dagmar 1996: Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Ophir, Orna, and Dagmar Herzog (eds.) 2026: The Routledge International Handbook of the History of Psychoanalytic Ideas. New York: Routledge.
Schields, Chelsea, and Dagmar Herzog (eds.) 2021: The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism. New York: Routledge.
Herzog, Dagmar (ed.) 2020: Fritz Morgenthaler, On the Dialectics of Psychoanalytic Practice. New York: Routledge.
Geroulanos, Stefanos, and Dagmar Herzog (eds.) 2020: Anson Rabinbach, Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History . New York: Routledge.
Herzog, Dagmar, Helmut Puff, and Scott Spector (eds.) 2012: After the History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault. New York: Berghahn Books.
Fulda, Daniel, Dagmar Herzog, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, and Till van Rahden (eds.) 2010: Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg. Göttingen: Wallstein.
Herzog, Dagmar (ed.) 2009: Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
»Antworten auf Fragen, die gar nicht gestellt wurden….«. Die Gruppendiskussion Nr. 8 neu gelesen, 75 Jahre später
The Trouble with Desire: Sexual Politics in Europe since 2000
