Daphne Berdahl
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Daphne Berdahl
Born June 14, 1964
Freiburg, Germany
Died October 5, 2007
Saint Paul, MN
Nationality American
Occupation Anthropology Professor

Daphne Berdahl (June 14, 1964 in Freiburg, Germany – October 5, 2007) was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe.

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Biography

Although raised in Oregon, Daphne Berdahl was born on June 14, 1964, in Freiburg, Germany, to Margaret and Robert Berdahl, a scholar on German History and well-known former chancellor of Berkeley. Berdahl attended Oberlin College for her undergraduate degree and earned her PhD at the University of Chicago. Afterwards, she received a two year position as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard. Next, she joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where she worked as an Associate Professor of Anthropology from 1997 to 2007.

Berdahl married John Baldwin in 1990, and the couple had two daughters. On October 5, 2007, Berdahl died after an eight year struggle with breast cancer. A graduate fellowship was set up at the University of Minnesota in her honor.

Scholarship

Berdahl's research covered the topics of citizenship, nationalism, consumption, and the politics of memory, specifically within the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). She was one of the first scholars to tackle Eastern Germany and post-socialism in the discipline of anthropology and one of the first scholars to tackle the concept of Ostalgie, nostalgia for the east. She also focused on transglobal processes and local communities, national identity, and socialist societies' transitions, specifically German re-unification.

In 1999, she published Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland., an ethnographic account of her time spent in Kella, an East German border village between 1990 and 1992. She has also published a great deal on Ostalgie. In 2003, she received a McKnight Arts and Humanities Research Award, and in 2007, she was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Select bibliography

  • "Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," History & Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past 6 (Fall/Winter 1994), 88-124.
  • Dismembering the Past: The Politics of Memory in the German Borderland (1997)
  • Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-520-21477-4.
  • Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08617-7.
  • Go, Trabi, Go! Reflections on a Car and its Symbolization Over Time, (2001)
  • Ostalgie for the Present: Memory, Longing and East German Things, (1999)

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