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Dr. Uta A. Balbier

Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington DC 20009
U.S.A.
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Biographical Summary

Uta Andrea Balbier is a research fellow at the Institute. Her research interests include among the History of Sports, Modern U.S. and German History, History of Religion, and Transnational History. She studied history, political sciences, and journalism at Münster and Hull, UK and received her PhD in Modern History from the University of Potsdam in 2005. She is the author of Kalter Krieg auf der Aschenbahn. Deutsch-deutscher Sport 1950-72, eine politische Geschichte (Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn) and co-editor of Umworbener Klassenfeind. Das Verhältnis der DDR zu den USA (Berlin: Ch.Links, 2006). She was a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research and taught at Jacobs University, Bremen.


Main Areas of Interest

  • Modern U.S. and German History
  • History of Sports
  • History of Religion
  • Transnational History


GHI Research Project

  • God's Own Citizens: Political Participation and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, 1900-1961. more ...


Professional Positions

since 2007 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
2005 - 2007 Research Fellow, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany. Project: Religious Awakening in McCarthy’s America
2001 - 2002 Research Assistant, Department for the History of Sports, Universität Potsdam, Germany