Meet the CareCentury Team

Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey

Principal investigator

I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Associate Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CareCentury, a project funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. I am a historian of eastern Europe, the global Jewish experience throughout historical time and the significant Jewish diasporas unleased from the lands between Berlin and Moscow as a result of the Holocaust, World War II and postwar events. I received my doctorate in late modern European history with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Since then, I have taught courses on modern European history, central and Eastern Europe, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University and the Université libre de Bruxelles. My book, Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the “Ethnic Revolution” in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946, is based on my prize-winning doctoral dissertation was published by the 'Modern Jewish Experience' series at Indiana University Press in 2023. My second book, Caring through Catastrophe: Jewish Children and their Caretakers during the Holocaust, is under advanced contract at Indiana University Press.