Current Research

• Lebensborn: Myth, Memory and the Sexualization of the Nazi Past: Book project about Heinrich Himmler’s (SS) network of maternity homes for “Aryan” single mothers in the Third Reich.

• Not Straight From Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship Since Magnus Hirschfeld, edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette F. Timm, and Rainer Herrn (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, forthcoming fall 2017). An interdisciplinary collection of essays arising out of a scholarly conference and the PopSex! art exhibition at the Alberta College of Art and Design in January 2011. The volume will include both historical research and a catalogue of the exhibition.

• Editor, Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming January 2018).

• Co-author with Michael Thomas Taylor and Rainer Herrn, TransTrans: Hirschfeld, Kinsey, and the Transnational Story of Transsexuality. A 3-way authored short book tracking the transmission of knowledge about transsexuality from Germany to the United States through the stories of trans individuals and key sexologists. Prospectus will be reviewed by University of Calgary press in fall 2017.