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Monique Scheer (born in 1967 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American historical and cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She has been Vice-President of International Affairs at the University of Tübingen since October 2016.
Biography
Monique Scheer studied history at Stanford University and graduated in 1989. She worked as a desk editor and translations editor at Thieme Medical Publishers in Stuttgart, Germany, between 1990 and 1994. She then studied European ethnology and religion at the University of Tübingen, gaining her master’s degree in 2000. She worked as a research scholar at the University of Tübingen in the Collaborative Research Centre on War Experience between 2002 and 2007, completing her doctorate in 2006. She moved to the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany in 2008 as a research scholar at its Center for the History of Emotions. She then became Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen in 2011. She has been a Full Professor since 2014. She was elected Vice-President of International Affairs in October 2016.
Academic work
Scheer's research focuses on emotions in religious and political contexts, theory and method in the history of emotions, and the visual and material culture of Christianity in modern Europe. She has investigated the history of German-speaking anthropology and folklore studies, especially during World War 1, in addition to ethnic and religious diversity in modern German society. She has been co-editor of the journal Ethnologia Europaea since 2016. In 2011 she was awarded the Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Publications
- Emotional Lexicons: Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700–2000 (with Ute Frevert et al.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Out of the Tower. Essays in Culture and Everyday Life (edited with Reinhard Johler, Bernhard Tschofen, Thomas Thiemeyer). Tübingen: TVV, 2013.
- Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (and Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuan Approach to Understanding Emotion, History and Theory, Vol. 51 (2012), No. 2, pp. 193–220.
- Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones. World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe (edited with Reinhard Johler and Christian Marchetti). Bielefeld: transcript, 2010.
- From Majesty to Mystery: Change in the Meanings of Black Madonnas from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, American Historical Review Vol. 107 (2002), No. 5, pp. 1412–1440.