Michelle Lynn Kahn

Associate Professor of History

University of Richmond

Affiliations

School of Arts & Sciences

Department Of History

Department of Global Studies

Michelle Lynn Kahn is currently serving as a History Associate Professor of History at University of Richmond.

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Michelle Lynn Kahn

University of Richmond

Associate Professor of History

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Book Review: A Place in the Homeland? KılınçN.Kingr.2025. a Place in the Homeland?: Turkish-German Return Migration. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 328 Pp., £95.00.. International Migration Review (2025)

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Germany’s Plan to Deport Syrian Refugees Echoes 1980S Effort to Repatriate Turkish Guest Workers. (2025)

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Lauren Stokes. Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany.. The American Historical Review (2025)

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Foreign in Two Homelands. Cambridge University Press eBooks (2024)

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African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975. Cold War History (2023)

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Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial, and Germany’s Far Right: How the Afd Tiptoes Around Nazism. The Journal of Holocaust Research (2022)

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AyŞE Parla, Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019). Mashriq & Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies (2022)

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Rethinking Central Europe as a Migration Space: From the Ottoman Empire Through the Cold War and the Refugee Crisis. Central European History (2022)

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Book Reviews. German Politics & Society (2021)

The American Influence on German Neo-Nazism: An Entangled History of Hate, 1970S–1990s. The Journal of Holocaust Research (2021)

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