Carola Ossmer

Carola Oßmer is a historian of science, knowledge, and culture. Before joining the Max Planck Institute as a Postdoctoral Scholar, she was a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in History at the University of Erfurt. There, she completed her dissertation on “The Invention of the Normal Child.” She has held fellowships at the Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung Lübeck, the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. She was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. For her work on Normal Development, she received the 2021 Biennial Article Prize of the Forum for History of Human Science. 

Oßmer is a board member of the Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Medizin und Technik (GWMT, German Society for History of Sciences, Medicine and Technology). She co-founded the Forum Geschichte der Humanwissenschaften, a German network for researchers working on the history of a human science, and co-organizes the annual Workshop for the History of Psychology.