Habilitations

Sebastian Jobs:

Global Trade in a Shell: Zur Polysemik von Kauri-Schnecken in Atlantik und Pazifik im 18.-20. Jahrhundert

Dissertations

Ongoing Dissertation Projects

Frederik Blank:

German Canadians as Settler Colonists: Transatlantic Migration and German-Indigenous Encounters on the Canadian Prairies, 1890-1940

Sujato Datta:

Diplomatic Relations between British India and the United States during the Second World War

Lene Annette Karpp:

Fighting from the Margins: Punk (and) Feminist Practices in New York City, 1970s - 2010s.

Tobias Klee

Catalan Nationalism past 1898

Lea Kröner:

Indigenous Missionaries in the Pacific Northwest during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Anna Kukatova:

Between Boston and Leningrad: Avant-Garde communities and the changing face of the Cold War, 1980-1989

Katherine McGrory:

Bodies, Borders, and Belonging: Abortion in Northern Ireland's Nationalist Imaginaries

Julian Schellong:

Outstanding Value to Humanity: International Monument Conservation, UNESCO, and the Construction of a Global Past, c. 1941-1989

Henrike Georgina Rottstock:

Peripheral Partners -- The Dynamics of Cooperation Among Smaller States in the Socialist Bloc through the North Korea-East Germany Relations (1949-1989)

Seung Hwan Ryu:

Self-reliance Internationalism: North Korea–Tanzania Cooperation and the Search for an Alternative World Order

Ethan Ruby:

Mischaracterized Heroines: The ironically misleading portrayal of American nurses' First World War experiences in US media missed the real, extraordinary medical work accomplished by them; as told by the nurses themselves. How the historical devaluation and caricaturization of women nurses and their reactions to what they experienced remains a trend marginalizing the voices of women medical workers today.

Victoria Tafferner:

Iron Teeth and Brittle Bodies: Visual Cultures of Women's Occupational Health in Industrial America.

Anne van der Pas: 

(In)voluntary Enfranchisement: The Institutionalisation of Indigenous Identity in Canadian Governmental Policy

Yujia Yao:

Sino-American Relations in the 1920s: Wu Pei-fu and Americans living in China

Lesar Yurtsever: 

Sounding out Liberalism: Music and U.S. Turkish Relations from 1930 to 1960

Completed Dissertations Since 2010

Marlene Ritter:

Branding Europe: Western European Image Politics in the Experimental Phase of European Integration, 1945-1957"

Valeria Benko:

Managing the West: the Public Debate on the Third World and the Form of Global Governance (1974-1977).

Sarah Epping:

The United States in Mesopotamia (Iraq), to 1921

Kira Álvarez:

Migrant Capital and Social Networks: The Western Classical Music World between the U.S. and Mandate Palestine/Israel, 1920s-1960s.

Maximilian Klose:

Why They Gave: CARE, the U.S. Public, and Humanitarian Engagement for Germany after World War II

Helen Gibson:

Joyriding Across the Color Line: Automotivity and Citizenship in the United States, 1895-1939.

Mare Pit:

HOWL: Retelling the History of the North American Arctic from a Dog's Perspective.

Nadja Klopprogge:

Seperate but Equal?: Contesting the Concept of Equality, African American GIs in Occupied Germany.

Javad Asgharirad:

US Public Diplomacy towards Iran since September 11, 2001 (Graduiertenschule Nordamerikastudien, Juni 2012).

Rebecca Brückmann:

Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: Women's Activities in the Segregationist Counter-Movement.

Elisabeth Engel:

African American (Anti-)colonialism: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Colonial Africa, 1918-1939.

Silke Hackensch:

Constructing Blackness. Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in Historical and Cultural Perspective (2011).

Markus Kienscherf:

Holding the Fort versus Holding the Street: Techniques of Social Control and Global (Counter)Insurgencies (2011).

Stefanie Land-Hilbert:

Narrating the Other: Indigenous Representations in Twentieth-Century Australian and Canadian School Books.

Simone Müller-Pohl:

"The Transatlantic Telegraphs and the Wiring of the World, 1858-1914. Cultural Networks in Maritime Space" (2011).

Jane Preuß:

Social Work, Stratification Processes and the Fight for Racial Justice in The Association for the Protection of Colored Women.

Phillip Reick:

Protection and Emancipation in Moments of Historical Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Social Movements in Berlin and New York City in the 1870s and 1930s.

Marcel Will:

Sino-American Normalization, the Taiwan Relations Act, and U.S. Preponderance in the Asia-Pacific.