About Carsta

Carsta Langner is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Erfurt and a principal investigator within the DFG Research Unit on “Voluntariness.” Her research focuses on the history of voluntary participation under state socialism, the history of civil society in Germany, and racism and migration in East Germany during the transition period. Her book Formierte Zivilgesellschaft. Zum Korporatismus in Deutschland 1945 und 1989  (Campus Verlag) was published in 2018.