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Dr. Sandra Lipner is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), University College London (UCL), affiliated with the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her work focuses on the cultural history of the Holocaust, examining 20th-century German mentalities and meaning-making practices through microhistorical analysis of petitions from ordinary Germans in south-west Germany during the Nazi and postwar eras.
- Education: PhD in History and German Studies (2024, Royal Holloway, University of London); Master's in Historical Research; PGCE in Secondary History (University of Oxford).
Her research explores continuity and change in exclusionary bourgeois thinking under dictatorship, using personal narratives and ego-documents. She co-curated the 2023 exhibition Holocaust Letters at the Wiener Holocaust Library and contributed to the forthcoming conference volume Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections (Bloomsbury, 2026). Her publications address topics such as bourgeois notions of Heimat, völkisch worldviews, and kinship networks in Nazi Germany.
Her scholarly work intersects Holocaust studies, cultural history, and archival methodologies, with a focus on lived experiences and local historical contexts. Awards include AHRC funding for her doctoral research.
