The Team
Prof. Petra Terhoeven
Petra Terhoeven is professor of European cultural and contemporary history in the Department of Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her research areas include political violence and terrorism in the 20th century, Italian fascism and visual history.
Based on her studies about the Red Army Faction, since 2016 she has increasingly adopted a victim-centered perspective on the history of terrorism.
- Deutscher Herbst in Der Linksterrorismus der siebziger Jahre als transnationales Phänomen, München 2014. (De Gruyter)
- Die Rote Armee Fraktion. Eine Geschichte terroristischer Gewalt, München 2017, CH Beck (Reihe C.H. Beck Wissen 2878).
- Victimhood and Acknowledgement. The Other Side of Terrorism (European History Yearbook, 19) München 2018. (De Gruyter – Open Access)
Hannah Rudolph
Hannah Rudolph is a research associate in the Department of Medieval and Modern History. Her research focuses on the history of terrorism, historical discourses, and gender history.
From 2012 to 2019 she studied history and German philology in Göttingen. From April to July 2019 she was an intern at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. Her master's thesis is entitled "A symbol of national strength' - The Widows of September 11 and the US Media".
She is currently preparing her doctoral thesis on the political activism of survivors of terrorism.
Christoph Ehlert
Christoph Ehlert is a student assistant in the Department for Medieval and Modern History. Since 2014/16 he has been studying history and geography for the teaching profession in Göttingen.
His study interests are mainly in the field of German contemporary history. As part of his Bachelor's thesis he conducted research on the denazification study of the “Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung” (1953).