Nora Stumpfogger

Nora Stumpfögger is a PhD student in the German Department with a research focus on psychoanalysis and the history of psychiatry. Her dissertation-in-progress is an interdisciplinary study that investigates historical encounters between psychoanalysis and psychedelic research during the twentieth century. Nora is also completing certificates in History of Science (awarded in 2025) and Gender and Sexuality Studies (in progress). In 2024-25, Nora was a fellow at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Currently, she is co-organizing the Seminar in Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Studies as a University Administrative Fellow. 

Nora’s work has been supported by a Frelinghuysen Fellowship (2023-24), Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. For the 2026-27 academic year, Nora was awarded a Donald and Mary Hyde Academic Year Fellowship for Research Abroad in the Humanities.

Before coming to Princeton in 2022, Nora received a B.A. in Philosophy and Art History from Humboldt University of Berlin, a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Hamburg, and an M.Sc. in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from University College London/Anna Freud Centre. She worked as a research associate in Berlin (Charité/Freie Universität) and Frankfurt (Sigmund Freud Institute) and published academic papers on migration and motherhood. Nora has also presented her work on psychoanalysis at numerous conferences and symposia.