We are very pleased to welcome to Amélie Kratz to the ERC BodyCapital research project team.
After an undergraduate degree in history and German, Amélie obtained a master's degree in contemporary history at the University of Freiburg-en-Brisgau (Germany) and the University of Lyon 2 in a Franco-German intercultural programme. In 2019, she joined the BodyCapital research team at the DHVS as a research assistant for her Masters internship and worked on films of picnics in family amateur cinema from the 1920s to the 1960s, notably in the Vosges mountains.
As part of the ERC BodyCapital research programme, she is preparing a doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Christian Bonah, on the evolution of child nutrition in France and Germany between the late 1940s and 1970s through amateur family films. The increasing attention paid to child health in the second half of the 20th century, in connection with the establishment of paediatrics, led manufacturers to invest massively in the market for childrens food by offering products specifically developed for their consumption: this was the beginning of the era of "petit pots" in France. This audiovisual history work aims to understand the influence of the agri-food industries and public health policies in changing children's eating habits in two European countries that share the same Western industrial orientation but differ in their cultural and political relationship to children and food.
We warmly welcome Amélie to the project and look forward to following her research work!
Image credits: Fonds Kugler, 075FN0001 © MIRA – Années 1950
