Martina Keilbach has been managing PhD programmes in the humanities and social sciences at Leipzig University since 2002, and since 2016 she is the academic coordinator of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies and since 2020 Head of the Career Development Programme at the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC). She studied sociology and German Studies in Heidelberg and Leipzig and received her PhD in comparative cultural history in Leipzig in 2009. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of modern Europe, the history of the welfare state in Europe and gender studies.
