PD Dr. Felix Krämer

Felix Krämer works on Modern and North American History at the Department of History at Erfurt University. At the SFB “Structural Change of Property”, he heads the Junior Research Team on “Private Debt and Property Formation in the Context of Historical Change in Germany and the United States”. He studied history, political science and gender studies at the University of Hamburg before joining the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster, where he completed his doctorate with a thesis entitled Moral Leaders. Medien, Gender und Glaube in den USA der 1970er und 1980er Jahre, published with transcript in 2015. His second book historicizes indebtedness in US-society from the end of slavery to the present and was published with Campus under the title “Living on Credit” / Leben auf Kredit. Menschen, Macht und Schulden in den USA vom Ende der Sklaverei bis in die Gegenwart in 2024. His research focuses on the new history of capitalism, the history of gender, everyday life and the body, as well as the history of religion and media.