Responsibilities

University Professor of History at Freie Universität Berlin

Chair, Department of History, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies

Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script“ (SCRIPTS), its Research Unit Borders, and the Project "Gender, Borders, Memory" SCRIPTS: https://www.scripts-berlin.eu Borders: https://www.scripts-berlin.eu/research/research-units/borders/index.html "Gender, Borders, Memory": https://www.scripts-berlin.eu/research/research-projects/General-Research-Projects/Gender_-Borders_-Memory/index.html

Board Member, Wissenschaftlicher Initiativkreis Kultur und Außenpolitik, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart: https://www.ifa.de/ueber-uns/

Academic Positions

2017	Visiting Professor, Centre d'histoire, Sciences Po, Alfred Grosser Chair, Paris
2016	Global Humanities Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
Since 2013	Chair of the Department of History, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
2009-2013	Full Professor of International History, University of Cologne
2011	Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto
2004-2008	Heisenberg-Fellow, German Research Council, Center for North American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
2002-2003	Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University
2001-2002	Research Fellow, German Research Council, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History, Harvard University
2000-2001	Visiting Fellow, Workshop "Global America," Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History, Harvard University
1999-2000	John F. Kennedy Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
1996-1999	Deputy Director, Center for U.S. Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
1995-1996	Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Bielefeld

Education

2003	Ph.D. (Habilitation), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; "Music and Emotions in German-American Relations since 1850”
1995	Ph.D. History, University of Virginia; "Cultural Transmission and the U.S. Occupation in Germany. The Neue Zeitung, 1945-55."
1990	Master of Arts, University of Virginia
1988	Intermediate Exam (B.A.), History, French, Economic and Social History, Spanish, RWTH Aachen
1984	Certificat de l'Alliance Française II, École Internationale Videmanette
1983	Abitur, Humboldt-Gymnasium, Düsseldorf (Latin Grammar School)

 

Awards and Fellowships

2016	Global Humanities Senior Research and Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
2009	Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award (for Sound Diplomacy)
2004	Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Council (5 years)
2002	Young Scholars Prize, City of Krefeld
2001-2004	Research Fellowship, German Research Council
2001	John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund Award, Harvard University
2000-2001	Visiting Fellowship, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
2000	Myrna F. Bernath Prize (for Transmission Impossible), Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
2000	Gilder Lehrman Research Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City
1999	Stuart L. Bernath Prize (for Transmission Impossible), SHAFR
1999-2000	John-F.-Kennedy-Stipendium, German Academic Exchange Service and Center for European Studies, Harvard University
1999	Fulbright Research Fellowship (declined in favor of JFK fellowship)
1995-1996	Bernard & Audre Rapoport Fellowship, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati
1994	Goldsmith Research Award, Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1994	Quadrille Ball Fellowship, Germanistic Society of America
1994	Research Grant, Harry S. Truman Library Institute
1993	Research Fellowship for Younger German Scholars for American History, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
1993	Study Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
1992	Research grant, Axel-Springer-Stiftung, Berlin
1989	Academic Enhancement Fellowship, University of Virginia

Memberships

Music and the Nation Group

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

German Association for American Studies

Deutscher Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen

 

Services to the Profession

2023-2026	Member of the Executive Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Since 2020	Member of the editorial board, Diplomacy & Statecraft
Since 2019	Selection Committee, Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History
2016-2019	Member of the board Dissertationspreis Internationale Geschichte der AG Internationale Geschichte: http://www.historikerverband.de/arbeitsgruppen/ag-internationale-geschichte/dissertationspreis.html Selection Committee, Research Award, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart Reviewer, American Academy, Berlin
Since 2013	Selection Committee, Doctoral Fellowships, Graduate School for North American Studies (GSNAS), John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
2012-2017	Committee Member, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); Selection Committee, John F. Kennedy Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service
Since 2011	Member of the Executive Committee of the Organization for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD), Kyoto, Japan
2010-2013	Membership Committee (The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations)
Since 2006	Advisory Board, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin Advisory Board, European Journal of American Studies (EAAS)
2004-2006	Prize Committee, Bernath Article Prize, Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
2001-2003	Editorial Board, Diplomatic History

Languages

German	Native
Latin	A-Level
French	Fluent in speaking & reading; good in writing
Spanish	Good in reading, advanced in speaking, basic in writing
Japanese	Basic in speaking in reading, beginner in writing

BA and MA students from both the John F. Kennedy Institute as well as the Friedrich Meinecke Institute are cordially invited to enroll in Jessica Gienow-Hecht’s seminars. Students who wish her to serve as first reader of BA and MA theses are requested to take at least one of her seminars.

Teaching

Summer Semester 2023

Bachelor Program

The American and Other Revolutions, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays, 14:00-16:00*

*please note that the Blackboard course for this class will not be available to students until April 17.

Graduate School

Disciplinary Methods in the Study of History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays, 18:00 - 20:00

Winter Semester 2022/23

Graduate School

Disciplinary Methods in the Study of History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays, 18:00 - 20:00

Summer Semester 2021

Bachelor Program

The United States and other Empires, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays, 14:00-16:00

Master Program - B and C

Race and Music, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Brandon Keith Brown, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:00

20th Century U.S. History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Wednesdays, 8:00-10:00

Graduate School

Advanced Disciplinary Theory and Methods in the Study of History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays, 17:00-18:30

Winter Semester 2020/21

Bachelor Program

The American and Other Revolutions in World History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays 16:00-18:00

Coping with Fear: Disaster and Disease in North America, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Wednesdays 18:00-20:00

Master Program

COVID-19, Dust Bowl, and Katrina: Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Disasters and Human Responses, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Wednesdays 10:00-12:00

MA-Colloquium History, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mondays 18:00-20:00

Additional Research Projects:

• Project Investigator, Research Unit “Borders” (Excellence Cluster Contestations of the Liberal SCRIPT/SCRIPTS).
• Project Investigator with Gülay Caglar. "Gender, Borders, Memory" (Excellence Cluster Contestations of the Liberal Script/SCRIPTS).
• Project Investigator, "The Quest for Harmony: Classical Music, Emotion, and the Discount of Human Rights in the United States since World War II." DFG-Projekt.
• “’Wir sind nicht Dänemark’. US-amerikanische Perspektiven auf Europa seit 1865.“ In: Arnd Bauerkämper / Hartmut Kaelble (Hgg.), Europa. Visionen und Praxis im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin 2021 (Berlin: Metropol-Verlag, 2021), 154-161.
• With Sebastian Jobs and Sönke Kunkel. "Visions of Humanity." Book-length publication project, edited volume (submitted in 2021).
• Who Is Part of Humanity? Gender, Humanitarianism and the War of 1898 in Cuba. Click here for more information.
• "Music and Human Rights Since World War Two: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Anniversary Concerts, 1949-2016” (Arbeitstitel, research essay).
• “Der stolze Staat: Wie nationale Identitäten gemacht und verkauft werden”  (Arbeitstitel, Buchprojekt).

Research Statement and Projects

How did and does political legitimacy relate to cultural projection? How did and do empires such as the United States and middle-power states such as Canada seek to achieve geopolitical influence by non-violent means?  How did and does power affect the definition of humanity?

My field of expertise is the interplay between cultural projection and interaction on the one hand, and the desire for geopolitical legitimacy and influence on the other from the early modern period to the present. I teach and research international and global history with a particular eye on North America, and its relation to Greater Asia and the European continent. On the methodological level, I seek to understand the relationship between culture and politics in international history by borrowing from other fields ranging from musicology to economics. Thematically, I am engaged in a number of research projects, publication projects and collaborations addressing “nation branding,” emotions and humanitarianism. For publications, please check the corresponding link above.

In general, I am interested in working with students from different fields and very open to approaches that attempt to cross the borders to other disciplines such as political science, art history, drama studies, economics and international law.

Thematic Interests

History and Cultural History:

• International History and the History of Empires
• North American History
• Modern History, 19th - 21st Centuries
• History of the United States: Diplomacy, Culture 

Politics and Society:

• U.S. Foreign Relations
• Humanitarian Intervention
• Nation Branding — Performance and Self-Representation of Nations
• Public Diplomacy / Cultural Diplomacy

Culture and Media:

• History of Emotions 
• Media History
• Music History

Continents and Regions:

• United States, North America
• Transatlantic Relations
• U.S-Japanese Relations
• The United States and the Middle East

Select Contributions in the News (Print)

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "How Was Your Delivery?--Trump's Indictment Will Boost His Bid for the Presidency", 11 April 2023.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow Hecht, "So Long, Transatlantica!", 22 December 2022

Zeitzeichen.net, Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Johannes Krug, "Marke Evangelisch? Warum Kirche und Diakonie ein eigenes Label entwickeln sollten", November 2022.

Tagesspiegel, Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Alexander Libman, "Was braucht die Ukraine nach dem Krieg?", 2 July 2022 (English here).

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Laskavo Prosymo, Mr Marshall!", 2 June 2022.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Transatlantic Challenges in the Face of Russian Sabre-Ratting," 9 February 2022.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "In Virginia, Contestation as You Know It: Get Back to Making Policy!", 4 November 2021.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Joy, Grief, and Disillusion," 13 September 2021.

FU Berlin Campus Leben, appearance at Humboldt Forum, 20 July 2021.

Article on Brandon Keith Brown and Jessica Gienow-Hecht's Race and Music course, "Die Augen hören mit," Tagesspiegel, 2 July 2021.

"Von Lügen und Verheimlichungen der US-Politik," Deutschlandfunk, 12 June 2021.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "This is Not a Game," 9 March 2021.

Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Michael Zürn on populism and pandemics, Tagesspiegel, 22 February 2021.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Presidential Libraries and the Liberal Script or: How (Not) to Remember Donald Trump," 16 February 2021.

Jessica Gienow-Hecht interviewed by Tagesspiegel Twenty/Twenty on Joe Biden’s new team, 27 November 2020.

Jessica Gienow-Hecht im DLF Newsblog zitiert, 3 November 2020.

What does the outcome of the U.S. elections mean for the Liberal Script? Contribution to SCRIPTS Cluster article, 10 November 2020.

Beitrag zur FU-Expertensuche, "US-Wahl am 3. November 2020," Berlin, 21 October 2020.

SCRIPTS Blog, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "How unique is the upcoming U.S. presidential election?", Berlin, 8 October 2020.

SCRIPTS Blog on COVID-19 crisis. Berlin, 2 April 2020.

"Wie weiter mit Donald Trump?", Migros Magazine, 22 October 2018.

Steady drum of Trump’s anti-Germany remarks raises questions, Associated Press, 11 July 2018.

"Germany had seemed immune to the #MeToo movement. Then a prominent director was accused," Los Angeles Times, 31 January 2018.

DLF Interview: Die "Hexenprozesse von Salem," 1 March 2017.

Transatlantische Disharmonien: Geschichtsprofessorin Jessica Gienow-Hecht untersucht, weshalb der deutsche Dirigent Karl Muck 1917 in den USA in Ungnade fiel, Tagesspiegel-Beilage, 12 January 2017.

DLF Interview, "Eine sozialutopische Kommune als Lebensexperiment," 3 April 2016.

"Die Mutter aller Schlachten," Freie Presse Chemnitz,16 January 2016.

"Kalkulierte Katastrophe?" Die Zeit, 21 May 2015.

“Enttäuschte Europäer,” The European, 1 October 2011.

“Eine transatlantische Wahlverwandtschaft: Friedrich Stock and Karl Muck -- Dirigentenkarrieren in den Vereinigten Staaten,” Neue Musikzeitung 59, 10/10 (October 2010): 3.

“Sanfte Macht: Was haben Musik und Orchester mit Außenpolitik zu tun?” Das Orchester (December 2010): 32-35.

"Model U.S. History. Studying Like in the United States," Perspectives (October 1998), 35-38.

"Wer jetzt Luftschlösser baut, gehört übers Knie gelegt," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 October 1995.

"Nicht der gute, nicht der letzte Krieg. Amerikanische Historiker pflegen moralische Selbstzweifel am Zweiten Weltkrieg," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 September 1993.

"Die Deutsche Bank stellt sich ihrer Geschichte. Erst jetzt zugängliches Archivmaterial soll die Rolle des Instituts im Dritten Reich klären," Süddeutsche Zeitung, 24 December 1992.

"Zentrales Parteiarchiv der SED-Nachfolgerin PDS. Wissenschaftler vor verschlossenen Toren," Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18 December 1992.

"Heimat and Feindbild. Jahrestagung der Ranke-Gesellschaft," Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1 December 1992.

"Alte Rivalitäten in der Neuen Welt," Die Welt, 23 June 1992.

"Umerziehung and Kulturkampf. Zum Symposium über 'Erziehung in den USA and der Bundesrepublik' in Tübingen," Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 July 1992.

"Sünden, Seelen, Staatsraison. 14. Jahreskonferenz der deutschen Amerikahistoriker in Blaubeuren," Die Welt, 28 February 1992.

"Im Irrgarten der Stimmen. Ein Symposium zum Einfluss emigrierter Juristen in Amerika," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 September 1991.

"Mim Beisickel fahr'n. Warum Deutsch nicht Amtssprache in Amerika wurde," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 July 1990.

Select Contributions in the Media (Audio-Visual)

Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Nick Cull talk about the history of public diplomacy, define what it, and other similar terms, mean, and how governments use it. “Unpacking Public Diplomacy,” Podcast, VISTAS, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 4 May 2023, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vistas/id1655209760?i=1000611729331

WDR 3, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on Kevin McCarthy's difficult election to Speaker of the US House of Representatives, 4 January 2023

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Fehlstart für Republikaner im US-Repräsentantenhaus", 4 January 2023

Radioeins, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "USA Ausschuss empfiehlt Anklage gegen Trump", 22 December 2022

Deutschlandfunk, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the recommendations of the January Sixth Committee, "Folgen werden überschaubar bleiben", 22 December 2022

SCRIPTS Berlin, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Zur Bedeutung der US Midterms: Rettung der liberalen Ordnung?", 6 December 2022

CKCU Literary News, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on 'Cultural Diplomacy', 'Nation Branding', and 'The Liberal Script', 28 September 2022

Radioeins, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on Pope Francis's apology to indigenous Canadians, 2 August 2022

n-tv Podcast "Wieder was gelernt", Jessica Gienow Hecht on a Marshall Plan for Ukraine, 29 June 2022

3sat Kulturzeit, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the Marshall Plan in Ukraine, 13 June 2022

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Der Marshallplan - Blaupause für den Ukraine-Wiederaufbau?", 2 June 2022

Radioeins, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, “Diplomatie - Kein Platz für beleidigte Leberwürste”, 6 May 2022

Deutschlandfunk, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "USA fordern von Europa viel stärkeres Engagement", 7 February 2022

Radio Bremen 2, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Blick in die USA - Wie steht es um Joe Biden und die Demokraten?", 3 November 2021

Deutschlandfunk, "Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Amerikanistin FU Berlin, zu 20 Jahre 9/11," 11 September 2021

Radio Bremen 2, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "100 Tagen Joe Biden," 29 April 2021

Tagesschau, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on President Biden's First 100 Days (German), 28 April 2021

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the impeachment trial and implications for the Biden Administration, 12 February 2021

DLF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht comments on the 2nd impeachment on Deutschlandfunk, 9 February 2021

Associated Press, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on what will change in the Biden Adminstration, 21 January 2021

DLF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht im Diskussion, "Machtwechsel hinter Mauern – Von Trump zu Biden," 20 January 2021

Tagesschau, Jessica Gienow-Hecht Interview: Biden neuer US-Präsident, 20 January 2021

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the lessons of the Trump Administration for Germany, 20 January 2021

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the Inauguration of Joe Biden, 20 January 2021

Radio Bremen 2, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the Storming of the U.S. Capitol, 7 January 2021

Radio Bremen 2, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Gespräch zum Thema "Die Wahl des Electoral College - alles andere als Routine?" 14 December 2020. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Radio Bremen, Produktion 2020

Radio Bremen 2, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Was heißt schon 'historisch?' - Die US-Wahl 2020", 7 November 2020. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Radio Bremen, Produktion 2020

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the history of the U.S. Election in Der Tag, 5 November 2020

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the U.S. presidential elections, 4 November 2020

Detektor.FM, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Wie standhaft ist die US-Demokratie?", 4 November 2020

DLF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on U.S. election results, 4 November 2020

Radio Bremen 2, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the upcoming U.S. election, "Warum Amerika?" 26 October 2020. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Radio Bremen, Produktion 2020

DLF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht interviewed on the possibility of a self-coup in Washington, 24 July 2020

TV Phoenix Hongkong, Jessica Gienow-Hecht interviewed on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany, 21 June 2020

Topographie des Terrors, Livestream: Outside Perspectives on Europe, China, and Russia, 9 June 2020

DLF Kultur, Jessica Gienow Hecht on U.S. President Trump's diplomacy with Turkey over Syria, 18 October 2019

DLF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's participation in the meeting on European foreign ministers, 13 May 2019

Swiss Broadcasting Radio SRF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 5 March 2019

Radio Bremen, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on U.S. President Trump’s domestic position after meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, 1 March 2019

Associated Press, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on US President Trump's comments on Germany, 11 July 2018

Deutschlandfunk Kultur Radio, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, 4 June 2018

Radio Bremen, Jessica Gienow Hecht on Angela Merkel's state visit to Washington, 27 April 2018.

Spreeradio, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s speech in front of the Brandenburg gate, 1987: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,"12 June 2017

Sciences Po, Jessica Gienow-Hecht interviewed by Sciences Po in regard to culture and international history in Paris, 6 June 2017

Nordwestradio, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Merkel vs. Trump,29 May 2017

Nordwestradio, Jessica Gienow-Hecht,The 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Entry into WWI,6 April 2017

DLF, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Die "Hexenprozesse von Salem", 1 March 2017

RTL, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Trump holt Schwiegersohn ins Weiße Haus", 10 January 2017

NPR Berlin, Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Rebecca Boehling, The Berlin Journal (interview from 15:45 to 23:55),9 January 2017

Radio Wissen, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Ist Trump 'Fit for President'?", 19 December 2016

Deutsche Welle, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Boris Vormann, and Irwin Collier, Election Day Coverage, 9 November 2016

Deutschlandradio Kultur, Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Boris Vormann, "Vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär: Platzt der amerikanische Traum?", 28 October 2016

Deutschlandfunk, radio coverage of section at the 51st Deutscher Historikertag, "Von »guten Nachbarn« und »deutschen Wegen«. Rollenbilder und Machtdiskurse im außenpolitischen Selbstverständnis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1969–2005” (featured in the first 22 minutes), 21 September 2016

Deutschlandradio, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on Desert Storm, 16 January 2016

Deutschlandradio Kultur, Jessica Gienow-Hecht,"Gelebte Utopie im Wald von Tennessee," 13 January 2016

NPR, Jessica Gienow-Hecht on the Bombing of Germany in World War II, “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” 23 February 2003

Books

With Sönke Kunkel and Sebastian Jobs, Visions of Humanity: Historical Cultural Practises since 1850 (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming)

With Friedrich Kießling, eds, “Die Marke Deutschland in der Welt,” special edition, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 45, 2019. https://www.vr-elibrary.de/na101/home/literatum/publisher/vandr/journals/content/gege/2019/gege.2019.45.issue-4/gege.2019.45.issue-4/20200228-01/gege.2019.45.issue-4.largecover.jpg

With Carolin Viktorin, Annika Estner, and Marcel Will, Nation Branding in Modern History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018). https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ViktorinNation

Music and International History in the Twentieth Century (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015). The book and text of the introduction is available here.

(Reviews of Music and International History: Midwest Book Review, H-Soz-Kult, H-Net, the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, Anthropology News.)

Transmission Impossible. American Journalism As Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. (H-Soz-Kult review)

Culture and International History. Ed. with Frank Schumacher. Oxford, New York. Berghahn Books, 2003. (Reviews: H-Net and H-Soz-Kult.)

Decentering America. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.

Sound Diplomacy. Music, Emotions, and Politics in Transatlantic Relations since 1850 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009; kindle edition 2009; paperback 2012. (Chinese version forthcoming, Beijing: Beijing Yanziyue Culture & Art Studio). Read a review from H-Soz-Kult here.

Emotions in American History. Ed. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. (Reviews: H-Net and H-Soz-Kult.)

Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy. Ed. w/Mark Donfried. Berghahn Books, 2010.

Editor of the series Explorations in Culture and International History. Oxford, New York. Berghahn Books, since 2003.

 

Essays and Articles

Jessica Gienow-Hecht, "Survival and Desire, Empowerment and the Absence of Words: Music in Postwar Transitions, 1800-1950". In Music and Postwar Transitions, edited by Barbara L. Kelly et al. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming.

Marlene Ritter, Jessica Gienow-Hecht. Review of "Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between the Domestic and the International", by Caterina Carta and Richard Higgot. Caliban - French Journal of English Studies 64 (2021), 407-410

Jessica Gienow-Hecht. Review of "Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1932", by Elisabeth Piller. H-Diplo ROUNDTABLE XXIII-37, May 9, 2022, 8-11, https://hdiplo.org/to/RT23-37

"'Wir sind nicht Dänemark'. US-amerikanische Perspektiven auf Europa seit 1865." In: Arnd Bauerkämper / Hartmut Kaelble (Hgg.), Europa. Visionen und Praxis im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin 2021 (Berlin: Metropol-Verlag, 2021), 154-161.

Anna Rauscher and Jessica Gienow-Hecht. Robin Markwicas „Emotional Choices. How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy“ – A Reflection. Neue Polit. Lit. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42520-020-00291-6

Jessica Gienow-Hecht, “Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser: Ein Blick in die US-außenpolitische Geschichte,“ Internationale Beziehungen und ‚Emotional Regimes‘. Neue Fragen an die Geschichte des Kalten Krieges, hgg. von Professor Dr. Hélène Miard-Delacroix und Professor Dr. Andreas Wirsching, Schriften des Historisches Kollegs. Kolloquien (München: De Gruyter/Oldenbourg, 2020).

“Interested in a Serious Relationship? Die Marke Deutschland im internationalen Kontext”, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 45, 2019, pp. 580-596.

"Nation Branding: A Useful Category for International History,” Diplomacy & Statecraft, Volume 30, 2019 - Issue 4, pp. 775-779, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09592296.2019.1671000 , Nichloas Cull Review

“Beyond Marketing and Diplomacy: Exploring the Historical Origins of Nation Branding.” In Nation Branding in Modern History. Ed. with Carolin Viktorin, Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Annika Estner, Marcel Will. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.

“Of Dreams and Desire: Diplomacy and Musical Nation Branding Since the Early Modern Period.” In International Relations, Music and Diplomacy, ed. Frederic Ramel and Cecil Prévost-Thomas. London: Palgrave, 2018, pp. 259-274, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-63163-9

“Beyond Marketing and Diplomacy: Exploring the Historical Origins of Nation Branding.” In Nation Branding in Modern History. Ed. with Carolin Fischer, Annika Estner, and MArcel Will. New York: Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018), 1-26. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/ViktorinNation_intro.pdf

With Carolin Viktorin, "Was ist und wozu braucht man „Nation Branding“? Versuch eines neuen Zugriffs auf Macht und Kultur in den internationalen Beziehungen am Beispiel der spanischen Diktatur unter Franco." In Internationale Geschichte in Theorie und Praxis / International History in Theory and Practice. Eds. Barbara Haider-Wilson, William D. Godsey, and Wolfgang Mueller (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, 2017).

Review with Carolin Viktorin of US Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain: Selling Democracy?, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Jimenez, Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla, Nicholas J. Cull, eds., in H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews December 2016.

“Nation Branding”. In Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. 3rd ed. Ed. Frank Costigliola and Michael Hogan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

"Europe's Cultural Habitus: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century," in Transatlantic Relations and Modern Diplomacy: An Interdisciplinary Examination, ed. Sudeshna Roy, Dana Cooper, and Brian M. Murphy (London: Routledge 2014), 189-212.

“Protest und Dissens,” in Buchners Kolleg Geschichte – Ausgabe Berlin, ed. Maximilian Lanzinner, Bd 2 (Bamberg: C.C. Buchner 2012), 211-212, and Buchners Kolleg Geschichte -- Ausgabe Brandenburg (Bamberg; C.C. Buchner 2013), 396-397.

“Nation Branding,” in Dimensionen der internationalen Geschichte, ed. Wilfried Loth and Jost Dülffer, (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012).

“The World Is Ready To Listen: Symphony Orchestras and the Global Performance of America,” Diplomatic History. Forum “Musical Diplomacy: Strategies, Agendas, Relationships”. Diplomatic History 36, 1 (January 2012): 17-28.

“Buy One Get One Free”, Forum on Laura Belmonte’s Selling the American Way. H-Diplo (September 2011).

“’¡No, no somos así!’ El despliegue de la cultura americana en Europa durante la Guerra Fría” (“’No, we are not!’ The Deployment of American Culture in Europe during the Cold War.”) In Guerra Fría y Propaganda. Estados Unidos y su cruzada cultural en Europa y América Latina, ed. Antonio Niño and José Antonio Montero. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2012, 41-77.

“Wer gewinnt den Wettlauf? Stellvertreterkriege: Wissenschaft, Kultur.” Der Kalte Krieg—DAMALS. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2010, 83-90.

“The Anomaly of the Cold War: Cultural Diplomacy and Civil Society Since 1850." In The United States and Public Diplomacy: New Directions in Cultural and International History, eds. Kenneth Osgood, Brian Etheridge. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010, 29-56.

“What Are We Searching For? Culture, Diplomacy, Agents and the State.” Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy. Ed. Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Mark Donfried. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010, 3-12.

“The Model of Cultural Diplomacy: Power, Distance, and the Promise of Civil Society.” With Mark Donfried. Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy. Ed. Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Mark Donfried. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010, 13-29.

"The European Habitus: 'Excuse Me, I am not Convinced'", review of The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy and Anti-Americanism after 1945, by Alexander Stephan, ed., German-American and German-Canadian Studies (November 2009), 1-6.

“What Bandwagon? Diplomatic History Today.” Journal of American History 95, 4 (March 2009), 1083-86.

“Europäischer Antiamerikanismus im 20. Jahrhundert.” In Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 5-6 (2008): 33-38.

“International Relations, Arts, and Culture before 1914.” An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War One and European Political Culture before 1914. Ed. Holger Afflerbach & David Stevenson. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, 271-83.

“The Cold War.” The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History. Ed. Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 174-78.

“A European Considers the Influence of American Culture: The Challenges of Globalization," eJournal USA, USINFO.state.gov, Ed. U.S. Department of State (February 2006): 30-32.

“The Cultural Cold War In Europe.” In The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Ed. Melvyn P. Leffler, Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 398-419.

“Decentering American History.” In Decentering America. Ed. Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, 1-20.

“’Always Blame the Americans:’ Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century.” American Historical Review 111, 4 (October 2006): 1067-1091.

“Hier sprechen die Steine nicht: Die ‘Amerikanisierung’ des Musikkritikers H. H. Stuckenschmidt.” America on my Mind: Amerkianisierung der deutschen Kultur seit 1945. Ed. Alexander Stephan und Jochen Vogt. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006.

"Von fremden Ländern and Menschen oder Wo bleibt der internationale Diskurs in der internationalen Kulturgeschichte?" Deutschland und die USA in der internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Philipp Gassert, Manfred Berg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004, 80-97.

"Emotionale Wahlverwandtschaften: Musik und Emotion in den internationale Beziehungen seit 1850." Erneuerung und Erweiterung einer historischen Disziplin. Eds. Eckart Conze, Guido Müller and Ulrich Lappenküper. Cologne and Vienna: Böhlau, 2004, 197-229.

"Whose Music Is It Anyway? The Limits of Transnational Culture in the Nineteenth Century." Straddling Borders: The American Resonance in Transnational Identities. Ed. Rob Kroes. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004, S. 34-50.

"American Cultural Foreign Policy Towards Germany, 1949-69." The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War. Ed. Detlef Junker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 401-8.

"Cultural Transfer." Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. 2nd ed. Ed. Michael Hogan and Thomas Patterson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 257-78.

"Who Is Afraid of Modernity? Germany and the United States in the Age of the Penny Press." Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Ed. U. Lehmkuhl and N. Finzsch. New York: Berg Press, 225-37.

"Trumpeting Down the Walls of Jericho: The Politics of Art, Music and Emotion in German-American Relations, 1870-1920." Journal of Social History 36, 3 (Spring 2003): 585-613.

"On the Division of Knowledge and the Community of Thought :Culture and International History." Culture and International History. Ed. Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Frank Schumacher. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2003, 3-41.

"How Good Are We? Culture and the Cold War." In The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960. Eds. Giles Scott-Smith and Hans Krabbendam. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003, 269-82.

"Zuckerbrot und Peitsche. Die Rolle von Remigranten in der Medienpolitik der USA und der US-Zone." Remigranten and Remigration in den Medien der Nachkriegszeit . Ed. A. Schildt, C. Krohn. Hamburg: Christians, 2002, 23-49.

"German-American Cultural Relations, 1980-1914. A Historical Retrospective." The Cultural Turn: Essays in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Ed. Frank A. Ninkovich and Liping Bu. Chicago. Imprint Publications, 2001, 53-82.

"A Global Group of Worriers." Diplomatic History 26 (Summer 2002), 481-91.

"Cultural Transfer or Cultural Imperialism." Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations. Ed. Alexander de Conde a.o. New York: Scribner, 2002, 397-408.

"Amerikanische Kulturpolitik in der Bundesrepublik." Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges. Ein Handbuch. Ed. Detlef Junker, Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach and David B. Morris. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001, 612-22.

"Shame on US? Cultural Transfer, Academics, and the Cold War--A Critical Review." Diplomatic History 24 (Summer 2000): 465-94. In January 2016, the Diplomatic History website recongised this article as the journal's 23rd most cited since 1977.

"Art Is Democracy and Democracy Is Art. Culture, Propaganda, and the Neue Zeitung in Germany, 1944-1947." Diplomatic History 23 (Winter 1999): 21-43.

"Friends, Foes, or Reeducators? Feindbilder and Anti-Communism in the U.S. Military Government in Germany, 1946-53." Enemy Images in American History. Ed. Ragnhild Fiebig-v. Haase and Ursula Lehmkuhl . Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997, 281-300.

"When Spengler Saw Jefferson. The U.S. Army Paper Neue Zeitung and the Image of America in Germany, 1945-48." American and European National Identitites: Faces in the Mirror. Ed. Stephen Fender. Keele: Keele University Press, 1996, 89-109.

"Trial by Fire. Newspaper Coverage of the Nuremberg Trial, 1945-46." Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History. Hgg. Michael Harris and Tom O'Malley. Westport, London. Greenwood Press, 1995, S. 167-183.

"The Decline of the German Language in Early America," Yearbook of German American Studies 26 (1991): 145-184.