Lieux chargés: afterlives of Stolpersteine
Europe’s largest decentralised memorial is artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine—‘stumbling stones’— small brass plaques installed in the pavement in front of the
Ruth Mandel
Professor Ruth Mandel is based in the Department of Anthropology at UCL. She serves as Vice Dean International, representing the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at UCL’s Global Engagement Office. She has researched migration issues for several decades, primarily among migrants from Turkey in Germany, described in her prize-winning book, Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish challenges to citizenship and belonging in Germany. She also has carried out research in post-Soviet Central Asia on media and development. Her book with Caroline Humphreys, Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism, grew out of this work. Her current research, with Rachel Lehr, addresses issues of Holocaust memory and monuments in Europe.