Christina Morina is a lecturer at the University of Jena, Germany. She received a PhD in 2007 from the University of Maryland and has published several articles on issues of memory and political culture in Contemporary European History and Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Morina is the co-editor of a forthcoming comprehensive volume on the divided history of the German historical sciences since 1945. In 2009, she co-founded an International Young Scholars' Network on 'The History of Societies and Socialisms'.