Academic career

PD Dr. Wiebke Lisner

2024
Habilitation in the History of Medicine at Hannover Medical School

2021-2024
DFG-funded research project: Concretizing the Hypothetical. Pandemic Preparedness since the 1990s - Historical Conditions of Corona Management (PreCoM) together with Heiko Stoff and in cooperation with Jonathan Voges and Cornelia Rauh, Department of History at Leibniz University Hannover

Since April 2018
Research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School

2014-2018
DFG-funded research project: Midwives in the "Biopolitical Laboratory Space" of the "Reichsgau Wartheland" - Obstetrics between State Control and Privacy together with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh, Department of History at Leibniz Universität Hannover, associated with the project The Private in National Socialism of the Institute of Contemporary History Munich in cooperation with the University of Nottingham and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw

Organized a German-Polish exchange project with students from Leibniz University Hannover and the University of Łódź, together with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and Prof. Dr. Krystyna Radziszewska (University of Łódź)

2012/13
3-month postdoctoral fellowship from the German Historical Institute in Warsaw

2011-2013
Coordinator of the Midwifery B.Sc. study programme at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences.

WS 2010/11
Lecturer at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Historisches Seminar

2005-2009
DFG-funded research project: Politics in British and German Medical Journals from the Interwar Period to the 1950s, under the supervision of Dr. Sigrid Stöckel and Prof. Dr. Brigitte Lohff, Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School

2000-2004
PhD on the topic: Midwives under National Socialism using the example of the state of Lippe, at Leibniz University Hannover, Department of History, supervised by Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Adelheid von Saldern and Prof. Dr. Barbara Duden, and supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation

1992-1999
Master's degree in history, sociology and political science from the University of Hanover