Dr.ⁱⁿ Sunčica Klaas

Potsdam University

Sunčica Klaas is assistant professor of American Studies at the Potsdam University, Germany. She received her MA at the University of Padua, Italy and her PhD at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Her research takes an intersectional approach to mobility and mobility justice, focusing on issues of migration and transportation. In her publications, she has addressed issues of mobility in relation to human and children’s rights, race and gender, technologies of culture and of transportation, transnational and border geographies. Together with Prof. Kerry Bystrom (Bard College, Berlin) and Dr. Carly McLaughlin (Potsdam University), she is also the founder of the research project and network Minor Migrations, which focuses on histories of displaced children in the Anglosphere. Her current project “Rac[e]ing Race: Trains and Railways in African American Literature and Culture” explores the intersection of race and railroad technologies in African American literature and culture.

Current research project:

“Rac[e]ing Race: Trains and Railways in African American Literature and Culture”

Email: klaas@uni-potsdam.de 

Website: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/academic-staff/dr-suncica-klaas