GHI | Anke Orlepp

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Dr. Anke Ortlepp

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Research Fellow since April 2005
Dr. phil., University of Cologne, 2000

Current Research Project

Cultures of Air Travel in Postwar America, 1945-1991

Main Areas of Interest

American Cultural History, Gender History, American Ethnic and Migration History, Urbanism, Space and History

Selected Publications

Books

"Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!" Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 1844-1914 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004).

Editions

Gender Talks: Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Bonn, ed.. Anke Ortlepp and Sabine Sielke (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006).
New Orientations in the Study of Regionalism, ed. Lothar Hönnighausen, Anke Ortlepp, James Peacock, Niklaus Steiner (Madison: CSUMC, 2005).
Taking Up Space: New Approaches to American History, ed. Anke Ortlepp and Christoph Ribbat (Trier: WVT, 2004).
The Sixties Revisited: Culture, Society, Politics, ed. Jörg Helbig, Jürgen Heideking, Anke Ortlepp (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000).

Articles

"Flugreisen und Männlichkeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg", Väter, Soldaten, Liebhaber: Männer und Männlichkeiten in der Geschichte Nordamerikas. Ein Reader, ed. Jürgen Martschukat und Olaf Stieglitz (Bielefeld: transcript, 2007) 293-311..
"‘Deutsch-Athen Revisited’: Writing the History of Germans in Milwaukee", The History of Milwaukee and an Agenda for Research, ed. Margo Anderson und Victor Greene (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, fothcoming).
"‘Aus dem Wiedischen Land’: Emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin", Wisconsin German Land and Life, ed. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, Robert C. Ostergren (Madison: Max Kade Institut, 2006) 3-36.
"’To Infinity and Beyond’: Das National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC", Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 3.1 (2006): 158-168.
"Kinder, Küche, Kirche: Deutschamerikanerinnen, Ethnizität und Weiblichkeit", Gender Talks: Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Bonn, ed. Anke Ortlepp und Sabine Sielke (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006) 63-79.
"German American Women’s Organizations", Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ed. Thomas Adam (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005) 413-418.
"The Formation of Regional Identity: The Case of German American Women in the Midwest", New Orientations in the Study of Regionalism, ed. Lothar Hönnighausen, Anke Ortlepp, James Peacock, Niklaus Steiner (Madison: CSUMC, 2005) 117-131.
"Taking Up Space: An Introduction", Taking Up Space: New Approaches to American History, ed. Anke Ortlepp and Christoph Ribbat (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004): i-xi (mit Christoph Ribbat).
"German American Women’s Clubs: Constructing Women’s Roles and Ethnic Identity", Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.3 (2003): 425-442.
"‘Give to the Poor! Yourself You’ll Bless‘! Jewish Charities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1850-1914", German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present, ed. Christof Mauch und Joseph Salmons (Madison: Max Kade Institute, 2003) 21-39.
"Terrorismus in historischer Perspektive: Vom Chicago Haymarket bis Oklahoma City", America under Attack: Der 11. September – Folgen, Fragen, Hintergründe, ed. Sabine Sielke (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002) 81-95.