Dr. Amir Zelinger

Amir Zelinger studied history and general and interdisciplinary studies at Tel Aviv University (BA 2007, MA 2010). In 2009/10 he spent a year as an exchange student at LMU Munich, where he completed his research for his master's thesis, entitled “The Bourgeois Family in Lockstep: Marriage and Kinship in the Story of Jacob Henle and Elise Egloff.” This thesis explored the connections between marriage alliances and sibling relations among the German educated bourgeoisie (Bildungsbürgertum) during the nineteenth century. Since 2011, he has been a candidate in the Doctoral Program Environment and Society at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich. His dissertation project on the history of pet-keeping in Imperial Germany is being funded by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). He is currently a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the Department of History at Boston University.

Publications:
Zelinger, Amir and Frank Uekötter. “Die feinen Unterschiede: Die Tierschutzbewegung und die Gegenwart der Geschichte.” In Das Tier an sich: Disziplinenübergreifende Perspektiven für neue Wege im wissenschaftsbasierten Tierschutz, edited by Herwig Grimm and Carola Otterstedt, 119–34. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012.

Dissertation abstract: Burghers and Pets: A Beastly History of Imperial Germany (pdf, 8 KB)