Barbara Stambolis (born 1952 in Kiel) is a German historian and university lecturer. From 1971, Stambolis studied history and German studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität and the Ruhr University Bochum. She received her doctorate in 1982 with Hans Mommsen as Doctor of Philosophy. Habilitated Privatdozent since 1999, in 2006, she was appointed associate professor for new and modern history by the Paderborn University. Her publications deal with fields of research in cultural, mental and social history (youth and generational history, childhood in the Second World War, religious festive culture, gender history). Source: Wikipedia (en)