Professor Carsten Schapkow is the author of The Freedom to Philosophize: Jewish Identity as Mirrored in the Reception of Baruch de Spinoza in German Literature (in German 2001) and Role Model and Counter Model: The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German-Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation (in German 2011; in English 2016). He is also the co-editor of six books on Modern Jewish History and the History of Nationalism. Schapkow is the series editor of Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory, and the co-editor (together with Sina Rauschenbach and Jonathan Hirsch) of Ergon’s Sephardic Societies and Cultures book series.
Currently, Schapkow is working on a book on German-Jewish writer and political activist Ernst Toller (1893-1939).
He received his PhD in 2000 from the Free University Berlin. Before coming to OU in 2005 Schapkow was a Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University from 2000 to 2005. He was a lecturer at the Free University Berlin and the University of Leipzig, a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Trier, the University of Graz, and the University of Potsdam. Since 2012 Schapkow is associated faculty member at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, Berlin-Brandenburg.
