Wulf Kansteiner

Wulf Kansteiner (1964-2025) was Professor of Memory Studies and Contemporary History at Aarhus University and held a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a cultural historian, historical theorist, and memoy studies expert whose research focused on representations of history in visual culture, especially in regard to Nazism and the Holocaust; the narrative structures of historical writing; and the methods and theories of memory studies. He was the author of In Pursuit of German Memory: History, Television, and Politics after Auschwitz (2006) and co-editor of Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture (2016) and Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe (2022). He was also cofounder and co-editor of the journal Memory Studies and past President of the Memory Studies Association (MSA).