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Claudia Roesch
Claudia Roesch is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington. Her research specializes in contemporary American history and history of the family. She studied contemporary history, English and American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. Her Ph.D. dissertation written within the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Family Values and Social Change’ at the University of Muenster, investigates Mexican immigration and changing family values in the twentieth century United States. She has published her first book Macho Men and Modern Women: Mexican Immigration, Social Experts and Changing Family Values in the 20th Century United States with de Gruyter Oldenbourg in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Muenster University Collaborative Research Centre 1150 ‘Cultures of decision-making’ investigating reproductive decision-making in the United States and West Germany. Her current project examines transnational entanglements of family planning associations in the second half of the twentieth century.