Katharina Kucher studied history and Slavic studies in Konstanz and Moscow. In 2004, she completed her doctorate at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder with a thesis on Moscow's Gorky Park. She completed her habilitation at the University of Tübingen with a study on the history of childhood in 19th-century Russia. From 2004 to 2019, Katharina Kucher was employed as a research associate and academic councilor at the Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies at the University of Tübingen. From 2009 to 2019, she was deputy director of the institute. Since March 2020, she has been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg and the editor-in-chief of the “Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas”. In 2022, she published the monograph “Kindheit als Privileg. Bildungsideale und Erziehungspraktiken in Russland (1750–1920)”.
History and
Cultural Heritage
in Eastern Europe
Cultural Heritage
in Eastern Europe
