Lauren Crawford

Lauren Crawford is a fifth-year PhD candidate in modern European history and current Fox fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation, “Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the ‘War on Terror’ in Germany,” examines how increasing American intervention in Muslim-majority countries, from the early 1980s on, has shaped the contours of Holocaust memory culture. In so doing the dissertation reconceptualizes how Holocaust memory culture became the basis for the reunified German state’s liberal humanist ethical commitments, encapsulated in the language of “never again” and denoting the right to be free from violence. 

Prior to coming to Yale, Lauren received a BA in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College and an MSt in History from the University of Oxford. She has worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Rodewisch, Germany and then as an educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. At Yale, Lauren has served as the co-chair of the Modern Europe Colloquium and as a co-coordinator of the Approaches to Recent and Contemporary History Working Group. 

Her research has been supported by the Fox Fellowship, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the German American Fulbright Commission, and Yale’s MacMillan Center. She currently lives in Berlin.