Uta Staiger

Deputy Director

Teaching Fellow in the Department of History

u.staiger@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 2076798737
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Uta Staiger joined UCL in 2009. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, gained with a scholarship from the Gates Cambridge Trust, as well as an MPhil from the same institution. She was also educated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Konstanz (Germany). Prior to joining UCL, she held a post-doctoral position at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Previously, she worked at a private foundation dedicated to cultural policy research in Barcelona, and was coordinator of a number of European Commission funded cooperative research projects.

As the Deputy Director of the UCL European Institute, Uta works closely with Richard Bellamy to develop the long-term strategy for the new Institute and devise and implement its work programme. For the UCL Department of History, Uta furthermore teaches a two-part MA module on the History and Theory of European Integration, “Constructing Europe, 1945 to the Lisbon Treaty” and “Theories of European Integration and the Idea of Europe”.

Uta’s main research interests, spanning 20th century cultural and political thought, history and EU politics, are in the relevance of culture and the arts to citizenship, political community and democracy. On the one hand, she has worked on the theoretical issues of this nexus as well as the history of its policy and legal development in the course of European integration. On the other hand, she is interested in modern European - particularly German - thought straddling culture and politics. She has published on the conjunction of culture and citizenship in European policy discourse, and the role of cultural practices for public discourses on contested urban sites. The latter also led to a co-edited volume, Memory Culture and the Contemporary City (Palgrave 2009). Most recently, she wrote a chapter on the historical policy context for the European Capitals of Culture programme for Patel, K. (ed.) The Cultural Politics of Europe. European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s (Routledge 2012). She has also contributed to and co-edited several policy reports for the European Commission, most recently writing the national report for Germany for the study Access of Young People to Culture for the DG Education and Culture (2010).

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in 2012.

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Uta Staiger

Deputy Director