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Friederike Kind-Kovaks

Assistant Professor of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg

Friederike is Assistant Professor at the Department of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg, and Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg/München). Her research deals with twentieth-century cultural and social history and focuses in particular on transnational and transatlantic entanglements. She is the author of Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (Central European University Press, 2014), a monograph for which she won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015.

In her current book project, which is entitled The Great War, the Needy Child and the Making of Humanitarian Child Relief in Central Europe, Friederike studies the history of childhood in relation to issues of war, poverty, migration and humanitarianism.