Dr. David Bebnowski is a contemporary historian and social scientist. Since Spring 2024 he is an associated postdoctoral researcher at the history department at the John F. Kennedy Institute. David Bebnowski teaches classes on the women’s movement and intersectionality in the U.S. before 1865 in the winter term 2025/26 and on U.S. conservatism in the second half of the 20th century in the summer term 2026.

Over the course of his professional career, Dr. Bebnowski has worked at different German Universities and research institutes such as the LMU Munich (postdoc in an ERC project), Leibniz-ZZF Potsdam and University of Goettingen. He has received various prices and fellowships and was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. In Summer 2026 he also is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Applied Humanities” at the Humboldt University Berlin.

Dr. Bebnowski is currently working on his “second 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). His areas of expertise include the contemporary history of Germany and the U.S., the history of the New Left, and the history of right-wing politics and right-wing populism. He earned 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.

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