Uta Poiger

Uta G. Poiger is professor and department chair in the history department at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on gender and racial formations and Germany¹s international relations.

She is the author of Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany (2000) and coeditor with Heide Fehrenbach of the anthology Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000). With Volker Berghahn she edited the online document collection German History, Volume 8, 1945-1961 (at https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=14). Together with five colleagues at the University of Washington, she collaborated on The Modern Girl around the World: Modernity, Consumption, Globalization (2008).

Her current book projects include "Beauty and Business in Germany: An International History" and an interpretation of German history since 1945.