Anja Werner
http://www.medizin.uni-halle.de/igem

Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin Medizinische Fakultät Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Germany

Anja Werner, née Becker, is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for history and ethics of medicine at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research interests include  educational, medical, and scientific transatlantic transfers with a special focus on black and deaf perspectives. She earned her Ph.D. degree in American and French studies from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2006 and subsequently coordinated the international Alexander-von-Humboldt-in-English-Project at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (until 2009). She recently directed a German-language project about transnational pharmaceutical research during the Cold War (University of Leipzig Press, 2016). Among her major publications is The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914 (Berghahn Books, 2013). She is also a co-editor and contributor to Anywhere but Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond, (University Press of Mississippi/ January 2015 / paperback 2017).