Dr Lutz D.H. Sauerteig, M.A. (Munich), Dr. phil. (Berlin), Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Current Research Project

• History of sex education in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Sex Education in Films

• Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939)

Other Research Interests

• History of Bodies
• History of Sexualities
• History of Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• History of Medical Ethics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• History of Venereal Diseases/STIs

Major Publications

Click here for a list of major publications. Publications related to my research project on the history of sex education are also listed under the research project.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Year 3 undergraduate module, History of the Body (HEAS 3001)

Postgraduate

• Master Programme in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM), Programme Director
• MA Masters Module: HPSM History of Medicine Module (HEAS 40030, 30 credits), Module Leader
• MSc Masters Module: Sexualities: Health, Cultures and Histories (HEAS 42515, 15 credits and HEAS 40530, 30 credits), Module Leader
• I am happy to supervise postgraduate projects (Masters and PhD) related to my research interests, especially projects on the History of Sexualities and the History of Bodies.

Curriculum vitae

Lutz D.H. Sauerteig, born in Hamburg, Germany. He is a historian of medicine, sexualities and bodies. He studied Modern European History, History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Theatre Studies, and Cultural Anthropology in Munich, Oxford and Berlin. He received his M.A. in History from the Ludwig-Maximilian's University, Munich, in 1989 and his doctorate (Dr. phil.) in History from the Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1996.

From 1990 to 1992, Lutz worked as Research Assistant for the late Professor Thomas Nipperdey at the Institute for Modern History, University of Munich. From 1994 to 2003 he lectured history of medicine at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Albert-Ludwig's University Freiburg. He joined Durham University in May 2003, as Lecturer in History of Medicine (Wellcome University Award Holder 2003-8) at the School of Medicine and Health. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in October 2010.

Lutz is Deputy Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute, member of the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine and of Durham's Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities, and an affiliate of the Centre for Medical Humanities. He is Programme Director for the School of Medicine and Health of the Masters Programme in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.

He is the External Examiner for the History of Mecicine Masters Programme at the University of Exeter.

From 2000, Lutz serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Social History of Medicine (a registered charity organisation; Charity number 278414) and has been the Chair of the Society from 2008 to 2011.