About Roman Birke

Roman Birke is a research and teaching associate for modern history at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His research focusses on a transnational history of the twentieth century, including the history of human rights, population control and gender. In 2018, he co-edited a volume entitled Das Geschlecht der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert (Gender and Human Rights in the 20th Century, Wallstein, 2018). He earned his PhD from the University of Vienna in 2018 and is currently developing his thesis into a book about the role of human rights for the population control movement from the 1940s to the 1990s (Wallstein, 2020).