Dr. Berenike Firestone
Kontakt
D-10785 Berlin
I am a political and comparative-historical sociologist and a postdoctoral research fellow with the Transformations of Democracy research department, led by Daniel Ziblatt. I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Broadly, my research is about far-right politics and support for pluralistic democracy, and the ways in which history and memory shape both of those things. I use a variety of methods, including experiments, statistical analysis of observational data, and in-depth qualitative analysis of archival data.
For more information, please see my personal website.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Firestone, Berenike, Ruth Ditlmann, and Oguzhan Turkoglu. 2025. "Confronting the past in a polarized present: holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism." Social Forces. Online First.
Ditlmann, Ruth, Berenike Firestone, and Oguzhan Turkoglu. 2025. “Participating in a digital history project mobilizes people for symbolic justice and better intergroup relations.” Psychological Science 36(4): 249-264.
Turkoglu, Oguzhan, Ruth Ditlmann, and Berenike Firestone. 2023. "Commemorating Local Victims of Past Atrocities and Far-Right Support over Time", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(28).
Turkoglu, Oguzhan, Berenike Firestone, Sabina Čehajić-Clancy, and Ruth Ditlmann. 2025. "Information alone might not be enough: The limited impact of exposure to factual information about historical atrocities." WZB Discussion Paper, SP V 2025-503, August 2025.
Ditlmann, Ruth, and Berenike Firestone. 2025. "Values in Peace Psychology: The Example of Empirical Research on Holocaust Remembrance." WZB Discussion Paper, SP V 2025-505, October 2025.
Lebenslauf
2024 Columbia University, New York, NY
Ph.D., Sociology
2014 Georgetown University, Washington, DC
M.A., Conflict Resolution
2011 University College Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
B.A., Liberal Arts and Sciences