Person

Postdoctoral Fellow
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail martina.koegeler-abdimrs.luse
Room LUX:A214
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Human Rights Studies and the Department of History, working in a FORTE funded project on “Historical Perspectives on the Repatriation and Integration of Scandinavian ISIS Children.” The project develops a comparative historical analysis on the similarities and differences in the post-war experiences of Scandinavian children born to German soldiers during WWII, and to IS foreign fighters during the Syrian civil war.
In addition to the study of children born of war, my research interests include family history research, feminist theory, trans/nationalism as well as the changing historical representations of race, gender, and childhood. I hold degrees in Cultural Studies as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. My PhD thesis (2018) at the University of Copenhagen looked into the cultural histories of Syrian American women’s self-representation in the early 1900s and my previous postdoctoral work has explored the role of family secrecy in Denmark during WWII.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (1)
Editorships (3)
- Nyvang, C., Vallgårda, K., Koegeler-Abdi, M. & Meier, M. (accepted/in press). (Eds.) The Politics of Family Secrecy. Journal of Family History, 47. SAGE Publications.
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. & Vogelius, C. H. (2016). (Eds.) Conversations about place in American culture : An international network discussion. American Studies in Scandinavia, 48, 123-150. Odense University Press.
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. & Parncutt, R. (2013). (Eds.) Interculturality : Practice meets Research. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Articles (5)
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. (2022). Parents and the NSU : Secrecy in National Socialist Youth Work in Denmark, 1932-1945. Scandinavian Journal of History, 1-22. Routledge.
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. (2021). Family Secrecy : Experiences of Danish German Children Born of War, 1940-2019. Journal of Family History, 46, 62-76. SAGE Publications.
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. (2017). Muslim Feminist Agency and Arab American Literature : A Case Study of Mohja Kahf’s the girl in the tangerine scarf. Gender Forum, 8-27.
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. (2016). Performing Transnational Arab American womanhood : Rosemary Hakim, US Orientalism and Cold War Diplomacy. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 7, 1-25. eScholarship University of California.
- Koegeler-Abdi, M. (2013). Shifting subjectivities : Mestizas, nepantleras, and Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy. MELUS, 38, 71-88. Oxford University Press.
Book chapters (1)
Reviews (1)

Postdoctoral Fellow
- Human Rights Studies
- Department of History
Contact information
E-mail martina.koegeler-abdimrs.luse
Room LUX:A214
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30