Fields of Research and Teaching: Modern Germany, European women and gender, colonialism, nationalism, human rights.
Lora Wildenthal..
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- First Name
- Lora
- Last Name
- Wildenthal
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- wildenthal@rice.edu
- Affiliation
- Rice University
- Website URL
- https://history.rice.edu/faculty/lora-wildenthal
- Keywords
- Germany, colonialism, race, human rights, gender, labor
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- About Me
My current research is on the history of the meanings of wages, with a focus on the era of the Prussian reforms (the early 1800s, during and after the Napoleonic era).
I am interested in the history of money, labor rights as human rights, and the history of the study of wages.
My most recent publication is a volume of essays in the history of human rights co-edited with Jean Quataert, the Routledge History of Human Rights (Routledge, 2020).
I am the author of two well-received scholarly monographs: The Language of Human Rights in West Germany (University of Pe