Academic Interests: Cultural and social history, artistic and philosophical approaches to photography, the GDR in its late period, intelligence agencies in the cold war, everyday life history, urban theory. 

Alumah Florsheim-Dor is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research is on the Stasi Photographers who operated in the cities of the GDR during the 70’s and 80’s of the 20th century. She studies Stasi photographs, held in the BStU archives, and uses them to ask questions about everyday life and culture of the bureaucracy class of the GDR.

In addition, Alumah works as a research assistant in the context of an international commission of historians and the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, which was established by Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior and Community. The commission works together to “examine and reappraise the attack on the Israeli Olympic team of 5 September 1972, during the Olympic Games in Munich, including its background and aftermath”. Together with Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi Alumah collects and analyses relevant material and documentation in Israel to be published in the closing report of the commission.