Dagmar Herzog
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she writes and teaches on the histories of sexuality and gender, Nazism and the Holocaust, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and disability activism and care work. She is author of seven books, including Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton, 2005), Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge, 2011), Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes (Cambridge, 2017), The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2024), and The New Fascist Body (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025). Her most recent coedited collection is The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (with Chelsea Schields) and she is presently coediting The Routledge International Handbook of the History of Psychoanalytic Ideas (with Orna Ophir). Her work has been translated into numerous languages and her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton), the Shelby Cullom Davis Center (Princeton), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Harvard), the Volkswagen Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. She is currently working on a new project entitled Fascism’s Lingering, based in a corpus of public opinion research conducted in post-Nazi Germany in the early 1950s.