Benjamin M. Baader

• PhD, Columbia University, Jewish History, 2001
• MA, Columbia University, Jewish History, 1993
• BA equivalent (German History and Judaic Studies), Technische Universität Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, 1991

Research interests

• Jewish history
• Gender history
• History and memory
• Historiography
• German history

• “Jewishness Fluid, Vibrant, and Resilient like Gender: Insights from a Project.” In From Knowledge to Interpretive Transmission: Canadian Readings of Jewish History and Thought, edited by Daniel Maoz and Esti Mayer. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023, 324-348. 
• “Women, Gender, and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century German Jewish History." In Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021, 239-260. 
• "The Shoah, the Sacred, and Jewish Victim Identity in Postwar Germany and North America: The Scar without the Wound and the Wound That Did Not Close." In History, Memory, and Jewish Identity, edited by Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn and Lorenzo DiTommaso, 257-293. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016. 
• “From the History of Integration to a History of Entanglements: Reconceptualizing the German Jewish Experience,” transversal: Zeitschrift für jüdische Studien, vol. 14:1, 2013, pp. 51-60.
• Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History, with co-editors Sharon Gillerman and Paul Lerner, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. 
• "Jews, Women, and Germans: Jewish and German Historiographies in a Transatlantic Perspective," Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography, ed. Karen Hagemann and Jean Quartaert, (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Publishers, 2007).
• Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
• "Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Refashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870," Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America, Thomas Adam, editor Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.