Dr. Ursula Ferdinand

Ursula Ferdinand received her PhD from the FU Berlin in 1997 with the thesis "Das Malthusische Erbe - Entwicklungsstränge der Bevölkerungstheorie im 19. Jahrhundert und deren Einfluss auf die radikale Frauenbewegung in Deutschland". 2001-2008 she was a research assistant in the project "Methoden und Theoreme sozialwissenschaftlicher Bevölkerungsforschung in Deutschland 'um 1930'“ ("Methods and Theorems of Social Science Population Research in Germany 'around 1930'") (Head: Prof. em. Dr. Rainer Mackensen) within the DFG Priority Program 1106 "Ursprünge, Arten und Folgen des Konstrukts 'Bevölkerung' vor, im und nach dem 'Dritten Reich'" ("Origins, Types and Consequences of the Construct 'Population' before, in and after the 'Third Reich'") at the TU Berlin and from 2008 to 2012 in the DFG project "Geschichte der Medizinischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster i.W. 1925-1965" ("History of the Medical Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster i.W. 1925-1965") (Head: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kröner), Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the WWU Münster. Since 2015, she has been a research associate in the DFG-funded project "Shaping demographies" (Head: Prof. Dr. Sabine Schleiermacher) in the research focus on contemporary history, Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin.

Ursula Ferdinand has been an associate member of the Research Society of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society (Berlin) since 1992 and of the DFG network "Population, Knowledge, Order, Transformation: Demography and Politics in the Twentieth Century in Global Perspective" since 2011 (directed by Dr. Heinrich Hartmann (Basel), Dr. Corinna Unger (Bremen).