Erik N. Jensen attended Harvard University, receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in History in 1989. Mr. Jensen is currently completing a doctoral degree in Modern European History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation is entitled Körperkultur: Sport, Gender, and the Emergence on the Modern Body in Weimar Germany. Mr. Jensen received a Fulbright Fellowship from 1997 to 1999 in order to conduct research for his dissertation in Berlin. Since 1996, Mr. Jensen has also worked on the emergence of collective memory within the gay and lesbian communities of the United States and Germany, and its relationship to the commemoration of the persecution of homosexuals by the National Socialist regime.
