Dr Jessica Reinisch

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Research Interests

I have completed a monograph on Public Health in Occupied Germany. It is a comparative study of how the problem of public health challenged the four war-time allies and how their assessments changed and developed as their occupation of Germany went underway. The study reveals the great extent to which the character and scope of public health work in each zone were shaped by administrative, political and economic problems, and, conversely, the regularity with which prospering public health was understood to be at the heart of a German revival.

My current research focuses on the multitude of refugees and displaced people in Central-Eastern Europe after 1945. It charts the formation of international organisations to tackle the refugee crises and examines the formulation of migration legislation in response to the war and post-war events. The research aims to contrasts the often conflicting international and national priorities in the management of the refugee threat and considers the impact of the population upheavals on the reconstruction of European societies.

With Matthew Frank I am organising a conference on "The Forty Years' Crisis: Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959" (15-17 September 2010, Birkbeck).

Deadline for proposals: 1 February 2010

Call for Papers

Teaching Interests

I am director of the MA European History.

My teaching interests lie in modern European history; modern German history; migration, population movements and reconstruction; internationalism and nationalism; contemporary history and politics.

Courses:

MA option "Ethnicity and Migration in twentieth-century Central Europe":

MA option "Reconstruction in post-war Europe, 1945-1960":

MA option "Internationalism and International Organisations in twentieth-century Central Europe"

I also teach on several MA programmes' core courses.

BA Group 1 "Europe since 1800"

Birkbeck-Harvard-Sydney graduate intensive "States of Statelessness" (23-25 July 2010, University of Sydney)

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2010/ 1 March 2010

Call for Papers

Publications

Forthcoming:

Public Health in Germany under Allied Occupation, 1943-1949 (Rochester University Press, 400 pages).

The Disentanglement of Populations: Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in Postwar Europe, 1944-1949 (with Elizabeth White) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Post-War Reconstruction in Europe: international perspectives, 1945-1949 (with Mark Mazower and David Feldman) (OUP).

Landscapes after Battle: Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Europe after the Second World War (Valentine Mitchell, 2010) and Landscapes after Battle: Justice, Politics and Memory in Europe after the Second World War (Vallentine Mitchell, 2010) (both with David Cesarani, Suzanne Bardgett and Dieter Steinert)

Articles and chapters:

"'We shall rebuild anew a powerful nation': UNRRA, internationalism and national reconstruction in Poland", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.43, No.3, July 2008, 451-476

"Relief in the aftermath of war", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.43, No.3, July 2008, 371-404

"'Le nazione hanno bisogno di cittadini sani e coraggiosi': le displaced persons, l'Unrra e la sanità pubblica", in: Guido Crainz, Raoul Pupo and Silvia Salvatici (eds.), Naufraghi della pace: Il 1945, i profughi e le memorie divise d'Europa (Donzelli, 2008)

"Displaced Persons and Public Health in Germany after 1945", in: eds. J.D.Steinert & Inge Weber-Newth, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, (Secolo Verlag: Osnabrück, 2008), 43-53

"A new beginning? German medical and political traditions in the aftermath of the Second World War", Minerva: a Journal of Science and Learning, Vol.45, No.3, September 2007, 241-257

"'Zurück zu unserem Virchow!' – Medizinische Karrieren, Nationalhelden und Geschichtsschreibung in Deutschland nach 1945", in: Rolf Winau and Johanna Bleker (eds.), Gesundheit und Staat: Studien zur Geschichte der Gesundheitsämter in Deutschland, 1870-1950 (Matthiesen Verlag: Husum, 2007), 255-271

"'Man kommt zwangsläufig in die Rolle des Pg.-Schützers...': Entnazifizierung und Gesundheitspolitik in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone", in: Peter Barker, Marc-Dietrich Ohse and Dennis Tage (eds.), Views from Abroad: die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, (W.Bertelsmann Verlag, 2007), 79-91

Awards

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Birkbeck, 2007-2009)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Balzan Project (Birkbeck, 2004-2007)

Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellowship (Imperial College London, 2000-2004)

Wellcome Trust Dissertation Prize (2000)

Contact details

Department of History, Classics and Archaeology

Birkbeck, University of London

Malet Street, Bloomsbury

London WC1E 7HX

Email: j.reinisch@bbk.ac.uk

Tel: 020 7631 6393

Fax: 020 7631 6552