American-based Scholars
in Germany

 

H-German offers the following list of scholars in Germany for academic year 2008-2009 as a means of sharing experiences dealing with specific libraries or archives, finding fellow scholars with similar research interests, and creating support networks to discuss dealing with practical issues of living in Germany.

H-German members who wish to add their name to this listing should contact Christopher Fischer at cfischer@isugw.indstate.edu.

AUGSBURG

Name: Ann Tlusty

Institution: Bucknell University

Location(s) in Germany: Augsburg

Duration of stay: Augsburg (except summer 2008: Wolfenbüttel ) Duration of stay: 3 semesters (through end of 2009)

Archive(s) to be visited: Stadtarchiv Augsburg, Nördlingen, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Frankfurt ( Institut für Stadtgeschichte); Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart; Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Munich; Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

Research interests: Rights and duties associated with bearing arms in early modern Germany

Email: tlusty@bucknell.edu

 
Berlin

Name: Benita Blessing

Institution: Humboldt University (Ohio University)

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin and Potsdam

Duration of stay: AY 2008-09 (until at least June 09)

Archive(s) to be visited: Bundesarchiv, Bundesarchiv-Filmabteilung, Potsdam Filmarchiv

Research interests: history of DEFA children's films, gender & sexuality, economics of film industry

Email: benitablessing@gmail.com

 

Name: Andrew Donson
nstitution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location(s) in Germany: Berlin
Duration of stay:  Now until July 23rd
Archives to be visited:  Bundesarchiv, GStA, Landesarchiv Berlin, Stabi, Archive at Burg Ludwigstein
Research Interests:  Revolution 1918/19, Lebensreform, Spies in KPD
Email:  adonson@german.umass.edu

 

Name: Mariana Ivanova

Institution: University of Texas at Austin/ Dept. of Germanic Studies

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin

Duration of stay: September 2008 - April 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Bundesarchiv, Filmarchiv, Archives at the Filmmuseum Potsdam and the Filmmuseum at the Potsdammer Platy, Archive at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf", DEFA-Stiftung.

Research interests: DEFA film, East German and Eastern European film, transnational cinema, Post-war German history, culture, film and literature

Email: marianaivanova@mail.utexas.edu

 

Name: Melissa Kravetz

Institution: University of Maryland

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin

Duration of stay: October 2008-August 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Landesarchiv in Berlin, Institute for the History of Medicine in Berlin, Hygiene Museum in Dresden

Research interests: female doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany, eugenics, racial hygiene, sexual and marriage counseling centers, women in medicine

Email: mkravetz@umd.edu

 

Name: Joseph F. Patrouch

Institution: Florida International University (Miami, FL/USA); Currently Gastwissenschaftler, Friedreich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universitaet

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin

Duration of stay: Sept. 2008-July 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Geheimes Staatsarchiv preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin-Dahlem. Perhaps various city archives in southern Germany.

Research interests: Das Reich im 1570; connections between early modern women's courts (especially Habsburgs)

Email: patrouch@fiu.edu

 

Name: Svanur Pétursson

Institution: Rutgers University

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin

Duration of stay: October 2008 - August 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: APO-Archiv (Freie Universität), Spinnboden, Schwules Museum, Staatsbibliothek, FFBIZ, Deutsche Kinemathek etc.

Research interests: The history of sexuality, 1960s and 1970s West Germany, Censorship, Student-, feminist-, and gay-rights movement.

Email: svanurp@gmail.com

 

Name: Stephen J. Scala

Institution: University of Maryland-College Park

Location(s) in Germany: Guest Researcher, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin

Duration of stay: Sept. 2008-July 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Geheimes Staatsarchiv preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin-Dahlem. Perhaps various city archives in southern Germany.

Research interests: Das Reich im 1570; connections between early modern women's courts (especially Habsburgs)

Email: patrouch@fiu.edu

 

Name: Jennifer William

Institution: Purdue University

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin

Duration of stay: about 5 months, starting in January 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Filmmuseum/Archiv am Potsdamer Platz; Berlin Jewish Museum archives; Stabi

Research interests: contemporary German film, particularly historical dramas

Email: jmwilliam@purdue.edu

 

BONN

Name: Christine Fojtik

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Location(s) in Germany: Bonn

Duration of stay: 2008 -- 2009

Archive(s) to be visited:

Research interests: cultural resonance of hunger memories among the populace after World War II, evolution of post war German identities

Email: zimmerli@wisc.edu

 

DRESDEN

Name: Nadine Zimmerli

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Location(s) in Germany: Dresden

Duration of stay: October 2008 through July 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Stadtarchiv Dresden, Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Bundesarchiv (Abteilung R, Berlin)

Research interests: Permanently residing foreigners in Dresden, 1871-1914

Email: zimmerli@wisc.edu

 

JENA

Name: Jennifer Kopf

Institution: Friedrich-Schiller Universität Lehrstuhl für Sozialgeographie

Location(s) in Germany: Jena

Duration of stay: ~1 yr

Archive(s) to be visited: DHM, Treptow Bezirk archives

Research interests: creating German vs. Muslim and 'other' identities at 1896 Berliner Ausstellung and Carnival of Cultures; childrens experiences of place and changing self-identity

Email: jennifer.kopf@uni-jena.de, saacnmama@hotmail.com

 
VIENNA
Name: Prof. Michael B. Barrett
Institution: The Citadel, Charleston, SC
Location(s) in Austria: Vienna
Duration of stay: Late January--end of March or early April
Archive(s) to be visited: Kriegsarchiv; Hof...und Staat
Research interests: Austro-German Campaign in Romania, 1916.
Email: barrettm@citadel.edu

After working in Austria, I plan a short trip on the way home to Munich, Stuttgart and Freiburg i.B. to wrap up earlier research in Bay. Kriegsarchiv, Bay. Staatsbibliothek; B-W Landesarchiv; and Bundermiliaerarchiv.

 

Multiple Locations

Name: Leora Auslander

Institution: University of Chicago

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin and Giessen

Duration of stay: Sept 1 2008-July 15 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Landesarchiv Berlin, Jewish Museum Berlin, Centrum Judaicum Beriln, Bundesarchiv

Research interests: German and Jewish conceptions of home in Weimar; post-war restitution processes

Email: lausland@uchicago.edu

 

Name: Waitman W. Beorn

Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill

Location(s) in Germany: Stuttgart, Freiburg

Duration of stay: Until July 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Bundesarchiv Ludwigsburg, Bundesmilitararchiv, Hessisches Staatsarchiv, and others

Research interests: Wehrmacht Participation in the Holocaust

Email: waitman.beorn@gmail.com

 

Name: Matthew Conn

Institution: Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies / University of Iowa

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin, Prag, und München

Duration of stay: 12 months

Archive(s) to be visited: Geheimis Staatsarchiv PK, Bundesarchiv Berlin, Schwules Museum, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Státní Ústřední Archiv (Prag)

Research interests: Gerichtsmedizin, Forensic Science, Sexuality, Gender, First World War

Email: matthew-conn@uiowa.edu

 

Name: Anna Hajkova

Institution: University of Toronto

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin, Hamburg, Bad Arolsen, Ludwigsburg, Hannover

Duration of stay: 3 months, off and on

Archive(s) to be visited: Centrum Judaicum, BStU, Neuengamme Memorial,  Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Niedersachsen, BA-Ludwigsburg

Research interests: modern German and Eastern European history, gender, microhistory and the Holocaust

Email: a.hajkova@utoronto.ca

 

Name: S. Marina Jones

Institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Location(s) in Germany: various locations such as Koblenz, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich

Duration of stay: September 2008-July/August 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: Koblenz; Staatsbibliotheken, universities in Berlin and Munich

Research interests: Modern European, women's and gender history, the African Diaspora and race relations

Email: marina@unc.edu

 

Name: Heather Perry

Institution: University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Location(s) in Germany: Munich, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Freiberg

Duration of stay: 15 Oct 2008 to 15 Dec 2008

Archive(s) to be visited: Bay Kriegsarchiv; Bay Hauptstaatsarchiv; Bay Staatsbibliothek; Deutsches Museum; Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum; Deutsche Orthopaedische Museum

Research interests: Germany in WWI; medicine and society in WWI; gender, technology, and the body;

Email: hrperry@uncc.edu

 

Name: Sarah Elizabeth Summers

Institution: UNC Chapel Hill

Location(s) in Germany: Berlin, Bonn, Koblenz

Duration of stay: Sept. 2008-July 2009

Archive(s) to be visited: 

Research interests: feminism and social policy in West Germany

Email: ses278@email.unc.edu

 

 

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