Erika L. Schumacher

Erika Schumacher Portrait

Position Title
PhD Candidate

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Education and Degree(s)
  • B.A. Rice University (English and Political Science), spring 2019
  • PhD, University of California Davis (History and Human Rights), anticipated Spring 2027
Honors and Awards
  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (2026)
Courses
  • Associate Instructor: History of the Holocaust (Spring 2025)
  • Teaching Assistant (selected courses only): Modern World History, Early Modern European History, Human Rights, Genocide, History of the Soviet Union, Global Food History
  • Reader (selected courses only): History of Human Rights in Europe, Human Rights, Memory of the Holocaust, War and Revolution (19th Century), European History in the 20th Century, History of Modern Israel and Palestine,
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Early-modern and modern Germany, the German Enlightenment, the public sphere, aesthetics, landscape architecture and public space, intellectual and cultural history, human rights theory and practice.
Membership and Service
  • History Graduate Student Association Co-Chair (2023-2026)