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Prof. Dr. Veronika Lipphardt

University of Freiburg
History of Science

Internal Senior Fellow
Oktober 2020 – December 2020

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E-Mail: Veronika.lipphardt@ucf.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2021

Curriculum Vitae

Veronika Lipphardt has worked on the history of the life sciences in the 20th century, parti­cu­larly history of physical anthropology and human population genetics, in their political, social and cultural contexts. In the past years, her research focuses on forensic DNA analysis and po­pu­lation genetic studies of vulnerable populations. She is writing a book on human popular­tion genetics in the second half of the 20th century (Working Title: Narratives of Isolation, Patterns of Diversity. Human Population Genetics, 1950s-2000s).

Veronika Lipphardt studied history, biology, musicology, and social sciences in Vienna, Pots­dam, Berlin, and Freiburg. In 2006, Veronika Lipphardt received a PhD in History of Science from Humboldt University, Berlin. In 2008, she published a book about German-Jewish physical anthropologists and geneticists and how they contributed to the scientific debate about the so-called “Jewish race” between 1900 and 1935. Afterwards, she gained working experiences in several academic institutions, e.g. in the BMBF-funded Collaborative Research Project “Imagined Europeans. The Scientific Construction of Homo Europaeus” at Humboldt University Berlin, and, from 2009-2015, as a director of the Independent Research Group ‘Histories of knowledge about human variation in the 20th century’ at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. From 2011-2015, she held a professorship for the history of the life sciences at Free University, Berlin.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project