Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann teaches history of education at the University of Hamburg. After her studies of education, philosophy, sociology and psychology at the University of Münster, Germany, she was researcher in an interdisciplinary history of science project at the Institute of Didactics of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Her doctoral thesis deals with the theory of knowledge and curriculum development during the Prussian educational reforms of the early 19th century.
Her Habilitation thesis is about the relations between Bildung and the evolving concepts of eloquence during the emergence of a bourgeois public sphere in Germany, 1750-1850.
In the 1990s she led a German Research Foundation (DFG) project on the history of Jewish education. Together with her former co-workers she is editor of the ´History of Jewish Education in Germany´ series (Jüdische Bildungsgeschichte in Deutschland, JBGD, 2001 ff.).
Together with Christine Mayer she presented a paper on ´Origins of 18th Century Educational Theory and Practice in Rhetoric and Gender Anthropology´ at the conference on Education & Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (1688-1832), University of Cambridge, 2005.
She currently leads a German Research Foundation (DFG) project on Hartwig Wessely's Divrei shalom we-emet (1782-1785).
Recent publications in English:

• Dimensions of Eighteenth-century Educational Thinking in Germany: Rhetoric and Gender Anthropology (with C. Mayer) In: History of Education 37 (2008) 1, 113-139.
• with C. Mayer, I. Grosvenor (eds.): Children and Youth at Risk - Historical and International Perspectives. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang 2009.
• Lessons from the history of education for a 'century of the child at risk' (with C. Mayer) In: Paedagogica Historica Vol. 45, Issue 1 & 2 (February 2009), 1-16.
• with C. Mayer (eds.): Paedagogica Historica Vol. 45, Issue 1 & 2 (February 2009), special issue: Children and Youth at Risk.

Research Interests:
history of public education; history of Jewish education in Germany;
privatisation, commercialisation and other effects of neoliberalism and neoconservatism on public education

Online Articles in English:

Commercialism in Education, in European Educational Research Journal vol. 1, 3, 2002, 550-565.  

Universities, the Internet and the Global Education Market, in World Yearbook of Education 2006, 17-32.

Every School as a Small Business. A privatization of the political is occuring worldwide today, in Indymedia Oct. 26, 2006.

The »Good Government« of the education system: Bertelsmann Foundation, in Tertium Comparationis 13 (2007) 2, 234-248.

Educating the Citizen: Two Case Studies on Inclusion and Exclusion in Prussia in the Early 19th Century, in Paedagogica Historica, vol. 43, 1, 2007, 7-27.

Dimensions of Eighteenth-century Educational Thinking in Germany: Rhetoric and Gender Anthropology, in History of Education, vol. 37, 1, 2008, 113-139.

Lessons from the history of education for a 'century of the child at risk', in Paedagogica Historica 45, special issue, 1 & 2 (2009), 1-16

Member of: German Educational Research Association (DGfE) executive board; EERA Networks 17 & 23; Berlin Institute for Critical Theory