Kristin Kopp is associate professor of German Studies, and faculty affiliate in film studies and Black studies at the University of Missouri. She earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Harvard University before arriving at MU in 2005. She has since been a visiting professor at the university in Oldenburg, Germany, and is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Her research has largely focused on the presence of colonial discourse within Europe, which is the subject of Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space (University of Michigan Press, 2012). She has also published on German-Polish questions more generally, German colonial culture, and German film, with four co-edited books in these areas, including Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past (with Joanna Niżyńska, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She recently completed an international research collaboration at the Viennese Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society investigating the geopolitics of travel during the interwar period (exhibition: www.colinrossproject.net); and is now involved in two further collaborative projects: one to construct a sourcebook on interwar “Red Vienna,” and a second seeking to more fully integrate the history of Black people in Europe into the field of Black studies (www.blackcentraleurope.com)
