Madeleine Doutney

I am a PhD candidate researching notions of fatherhood and masculinity in eastern Germany from 1980 to 2000. In particular, I explore the socialist father figure as a masculine type within and beyond the home in late socialism in the GDR, and ask how these ideas changed beyond reunification into the 1990s. I am supervised by Professor Celia Donert, and fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Newnham College. Prior to starting my PhD, I received a distinction in an MPhil in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, with my dissertation focusing on proletarian internationalism in foreign language education in the GDR. I also received first class honours in a BA in History from the University of Cambridge.



In Autumn 2023 I was a visiting researcher at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, funded by the DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub. Since January 2024 I have been a visiting researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, funded by a DAAD short-term research grant.