PD Dr. NINA MACKERT
University of Erfurt / University of Leipzig, LeipzigLab Global Health
I am a historian of North American history in its global entanglements. My research and teaching revolves around the history of knowledge, bodies, health and the environment. Until the end of March 2025, I am an interim professor of North American History at the University of Erfurt. After that, I return to my work as a senior research associate in the interdisciplinary LeipzigLab "Global Health" at the University of Leipzig.
Listen, read, or watch to get to know me:
"Y-History: Auf Diät forever?," ARD, February 2025
Kalorien: Die Vermessung des Essens, Deutschlandfunk Nova, March 2024
Save the Planet by Eating? The Politics of Food in the Planetary Health Diet, Food, Fatness, Fitness -- Critical Perspectives, February 2024
Auf einen Kaffee mit Historikerin Nina Mackert: Seit wann und warum wir Kalorien zählen, science podcast of Leipzig University, August 2022.
Eat Your Way to Health. On the Emergence of Health as Ability in the early Twentieth Century US, keynote lecture at the HOTCUS Winter Symposium, February 2020
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