Klara Naszkowska
Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D. is a cultural and oral historian of women exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, migration, memory, and postmemory. Founding Director of the InternationalAssociation for Spielrein Studies, and recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant. Her most recent book is an edited anthology, Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance (Routledge, 2024). In her current research project, she uses archival materials and interviews to reconstruct biographies of Polish Jewish women psychoanalysts who fled the Nazis to the United States. She focuses on their accounts of the past, and the retellings of their stories of loss and survival by their children and grandchildren. Klara is an Adjunct Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Montclair State University in NJ.