Participant Info
- 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
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- 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 Pennsylvania Press, 2013) explores questions such as: What causes have West Germans considered to be “human rights” causes? And how does a focus on activists’ own domestic settings change our understanding of their international human rights work? German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 (Duke University Press, 2001) analyzes German women’s participation in Europe’s most intense period of imperial expansion, and especially white German men’s and women’s ideas about racial classification.
- Recent Publications
Jean Quataert and Lora Wildenthal, eds., Routledge History of Human Rights (Routledge, 2020).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Germany, Europe
- Expertise by Geography
- Germany, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Human Rights, Race, Women
