Dr Agnes Anna Arndt
Senior Researcher, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Profile
Dr. Agnes Anna Arndt is a senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at Dresden University of Technology and a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin. Previously she was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the Berlin Centre for Comparative European History and the Social Science Research Centre Berlin as well as a Gerald D. Feldman Fellow at the German Historical Institutes in Warsaw, Paris and London. Her first monograph on the civil society discourses in the People's Republic of Poland (Campus, 2007) was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for German-Polish Collaboration. Her second monograph on the history of left-wing dissidence in Poland (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013) was honoured with the Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In her current book project, Agnes is working on the legal and cultural history of the concept of “Kindeswohl” respectively the "best interests of the child" in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1990. At the same time, she is leading a collaborative research project on the European history of children's rights in global perspective from 1924 to 2024.