Sonja Dickow-Rotter is an academic staff member at the IGdJ since 2019 and initially a project staff member of the digital source edition Key Documents of German-Jewish History. In this context, she also conceptualized and implemented online exhibitions as well as other digital formats. Sonja Dickow-Rotter studied literature and cultural anthropology at the University of Hamburg. After receiving her master’s degree, she worked as an academic staff member at the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for Exile Literature. Sonja Dickow-Rotter wrote her doctoral dissertation on literary configurations of house and home in contemporary Jewish literatures. Her comparative dissertation, which was awarded the University of Hamburg's Joseph Carlebach Prize in 2021, was written at the University of Hamburg and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sonja Dickow-Rotter is an alumna of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund.
