Atina Grossmann

Atina Grossmann (born 1950) is a historian whose fields include modern German and European history, gender history, and German-Jewish history in the twentieth century. She taught history at Cooper Union in New York, with courses also covering gender studies, feminist theory, and Holocaust, genocide, and refugee studies. She gained international recognition for her research on the sexual reform movement in Germany, particularly in the book “Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920–1950.” The American edition received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History in 2006 and the George L. Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association in 2008.