Laura Tradii is involved in Department I "Communism and Society" during her stay as Visiting Fellow at the ZZF Potsdam on her project about the politics of history in the Soviet Occupation Zone and GDR.
About Dr. Laura Tradii
She is a social anthropologist and historian working at the intersection between the two disciplines. She specialises in the history and anthropology of war and conflict, with a particular focus on the practices, debates, and ethics pertaining to the management and disposal of fallen soldiers in WWI and WWII. Her PhD project at the University of Cambridge, sponsored by a Vice Chancellor’s Award, explored the long intersecting afterlives of WWII and GDR in contemporary East Germany. It entailed 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research.
Laura holds a MSc in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology from the University of Oxford, with which she explored the body-management practices of the Imperial War Graves Commission during WWI.
Her research interests include war history, mass death, exhumations, as well as the cultural history of medicine and technology.
She is currently working as Research Officer on the Wellcome Trust- sponsored project Human Rights / Human Remains (London School of Economics). She is also a Postdoctoral Affiliate at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Cambridge.
