Studied Modern History and Political Science at the University of Freiburg (2003-2008) and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005-2006). PhD in Modern History (April 2013) at the University of Freiburg on the subject of Jewish experiences during the First World War in Europe and the United States, funded by the German National Academic Foundation (2009-2012), the American Jewish Archives (January-February 2011), the German Historical Institute in London (April-June 2011) and Washington DC (April-May 2012) and the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz (July-December 2012).
Sarah Panter joined the IEG in April 2013. During her first year, she held the position of a research coordinator (Forschungsreferentin). Since May 2014, she has been a member of the academic staff. Parental leave from March until October 2017, in April 2018, July 2021 until March 2022. Completion of the Leibniz Association Mentoring Programme (2020/2021). Since the end of March 2022, head of the DFG project (own position) “Transatlantic Families. The Lives of German Revolutionary Emigres, 1848/49–1914”. Submission of the habilitation thesis to JGU Mainz in April 2024. She was habilitated at JGU Mainz in January 2025. From 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026, Sarah Panter will take up a temporary professorship in Modern History (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Tübingen.
- Jewish history in Europe and the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Ethnic and religious minorities in World War I
- Transatlantic migration
- History of the European revolutions of 1848/49 in their global and colonial contexts, especially in relation to slavery and Euro-American settler colonialism
- Biography and mobility research
- Resistance to state authority in the “long” 19th century
- Family history
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
- European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
- Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands (VHD)
- Revolution und transatlantische Migration. „Familie“ als Sonde für internationale Mobilität nach 1848/49, in: Arvid Schors und Fabian Klose (Hrsg.): Wie schreibt man Internationale Geschichte? Empirische Vermessungen zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2023, S. 127–149, https://content-select.com/index.php?id=bib_view&ean=9783593452098
- Zwischen Verlust und Aneignung von „Heimat“. Transatlantische Reflexionen deutscher Revolutionsflüchtlinge nach 1848/49, in: Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 96, no. 3 (2021), S. 276–292, https://doi.org/10.1080/00168890.2021.1941732
- Beyond Marginalization. The (German)-Jewish Soldiers’ Agency in Times of War, 1914–1918, in: Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 66 (2021), S. 25–39, https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybab003
