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Jennifer L. Jenkins is an Associate Professor of German European History at the University of Toronto and holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of 'Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg', published by Cornell University Press in 2003. Jenkins has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. During the 2013-2014 academic year, she served as a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where she worked on her book focused on German-Iranian relations during significant historical events such as the Crimean War and Operation Barbarossa, entitled 'Weltpolitik on the Persian Frontier: Germany and Iran in the Age of Empire'. Her future research interests include projects that explore 'Germany’s Orient, 1905-1979' and 'Tehran 1943: Iran, Europe, and World War'. Professor Jenkins teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on German and European history spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, nationalism, memory, and transnational global history.
Department of Sociology