Rachel Weiser

Rachel Weiser is an assistant professor of modern European history at Jacksonville State University. She earned her PhD from Boston University in 2024 and is currently working on her first book, which examines how working mothers in the German Democratic Republic shaped and contested socialism in their everyday lives. By tracing women’s experiences in workplaces, homes, and political organizations, her research highlights how they both critiqued and cocreated the socialist project across generations.

At Jacksonville State, Rachel teaches courses on modern European history, including surveys of Western Civilization and upper-level seminars on war, memory, dictatorship, and the Cold War. She also offers graduate courses and advises M.A. students working in European, gender, and Holocaust studies. Her scholarship has appeared in edited volumes and journals, including a recent chapter on gender, labor, and socialist citizenship in Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe (Cornell University Press, 2025).

More broadly, she is interested in the intersections of gender, language, and agency under dictatorship in modern Europe. Rachel also holds a master’s degree in Archival Studies and has extensive experience in museums and digital humanities.