She also serves as the Assistant Program Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Dr. Brühöfener received her B.A. and M.A. from Bielefeld University (Germany) and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching focus on Modern European and German gender, women’s, cultural, and new military history, as well as the history of sexualities. Currently, she is involved in the organization of the international conference “Social Movements Since ’68: Germany, Europe, and Beyond,” which will be held at Rutgers University in November 2018.