Kathrin Maurer

Kathrin Maurer is professor for culture and technology at the University of Southern Denmark. She is known for her research on surveillance technology, drones, discourses of war, and visual culture. She has also published work on nineteenth-century visual culture in Germany.

Education and career

Maurer attended Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium Freiburg and finished her BA in German studies and philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg 1994. She received her PhD in German studies from Columbia University in New York in 2002 and her Dr. Phil. Habil. in German studies from University of Southern Denmark in 2015.

She served as an assistant professor in German studies at the University of Arizona from 2002 to 2007. She also was employed as an assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark from 2008 to 2012 before she became an associate professor from 2012 to 2020. Since 2020 she has been professor of culture and technology at the University of Southern Denmark.