Gisela Mettele

Gisela Mettele holds a Chair in Gender History at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, since 2010. Before that she was a Lecturer in Urban History at the University of Leicester (UK). From 2005–2007 she worked at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and served as its acting director in 2007. From 1994–2005, she was research assistant at the Chemnitz University of Technology. She also held a Senior Fellowship at Harvard University, USA, (1999–2000). Her fields of research are Transnational Religious History, History of Cities and Urbanization, History of Civil Society, Romanticism.