Dr. David Bebnowski is a contemporary historian and social scientist. He is an associated researcher at the history department at the John F. Kennedy Institute since Spring 2024. Mr. Bebnowski teaches a class on the women’s movement and intersectionality in the U.S. before 1865 in the winter term 2025/26.

Dr. Bebnowski is currently a postdoc in the ERC project "The Arts of Autonomy: Pamphleteering, Popular Philology, and the Public Sphere“ at the America-Institute at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (March 2021 – February 2026). He is working on a book that centers the history of feminist printed matter (“Druckerzeugnisse”: manifestos and pamphlets that are produced using printing processes and are intended to generate political pressure) in the USA and Germany during the first three waves of feminism (1848 – 1995).

In addition to these interests, his areas of expertise are the contemporary history of Germany and the U.S., the history of the New Left, the history of right-wing politics and right-wing populism. He obtained his PhD in 2020 at the University of Potsdam. His dissertation “Kämpfe mit Marx”, a history of the German New Left and academic Marxism based on two Marxist journals, was published in 2021. He has also worked and published on the history and politics of the German right-wing party AfD.

Please visit David Bebnowski’s personal homepage for more information.