Johannes Kleinmann, M.A./M.Sc.
Associated Researcher

Since 2020, Johannes Kleinmann has been a research assistant and doctoral student at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder. Since 2021, he's also a doctoral student at the University of Vienna as part of a Cotutelle de thèse and associated Researcher at RECET. 

In his research, Johannes Kleinmann is interested in long-term (dis)continuities of Polish governments' narratives regarding gendered aspects of labour during the long period of transformation (1980-2004). He is particularly interested in the question of what continuities and differences the so-called transformation process entailed with regard to the gendering of labour.

Research Interests:

  • Contemporary polish history
  • Gender history
  • Economic and social policy

Current research project:

“Heroines of Labour and Bizneswoman.” (PhD)

Selected publications:

Kleinmann, Johannes: Die Geschlechterpolitik der Volksrepublik Polen und ihre Auswirkungen in der langen Zeit der Transformation, in: Flade, Falk/ Steinkamp, Anna M./Walerski, Konrad (Hrsg.): Transformation in Polen und Ostdeutschland. Voraussetzungen, Verlauf und Ergebnisse, (Interdisciplinary Polish Studies 11) Wiesbaden 2022, S. 255-268.

Kleinmann, Johannes: Perspektiven junger Wissenschaftler:innen auf die Polenforschung. Einige persönliche Gedanken.

Teaching:   

  • Socialists, Workers, Dissidents. Women in the People's Republic of Poland. (Seminar)
  • Economy, Culture and Gender in Poland and East Central Europe after 1988/89. (Seminar)