[3] Christiane Lemke studied sociology, psychology and political science and went on to earn her Ph.D. in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.

[3] In 1983–84 she was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

[3] In her early work, Lemke studied East Germany, including the developments leading up to the fall of the Wall.

Together with Gary Marks she wrote “The Crisis of Socialism in Europe” (Duke University Press, 1991) reflecting upon the sweeping changes brought about by the collapse of communism.

In addition, she has traveled extensively in Asia and the Pacific, including China, India, Nepal, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.