Karen Hagemann teaches Modern German and European history, Military history and Women’s and Gender history from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Her past research includes studies in the fields of welfare state, social and population policy, labor history, family history and the history of everyday lives, as well as the history of the women’s movement. Newer studies are focusing on the history of the military, war and gender, the history of nations and nationalism, the history of masculinity and citizenship, gender and civil society as well as the gendered construction of collective memories. Her new monograph Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, Memory was published with Cambridge University Press.