Carola Dietze is a Research Fellow at the GHI. Her dissertation is an intellectual biography of Helmuth Plessner, in which she focused on questions of emigration and remigration history, intellectual history and university history by looking at the way in which German universities dealt with returning emigrants and their own national-socialist past. She is currently researching political assassinations in nineteenth century Europe and the United States, looking at the connection between the emergence of terrorism and processes of modernization, especially the beginning of the mass-media. She is also interested in questions of historiography and its history. Trained at the University of Göttingen (Ph.D.), St. Petersburg, Cambridge, and Groningen, she is author of Nachgeholtes Leben. Helmuth Plessner 1892-1985 (Wallstein Verlag, 2006) which received the Hedwig Hintze Dissertation Award of the German Historical Association 2006. She was a Doctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduiertenkolleg "Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present" at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. She teaches infrequently at the University of Gießen.

• Modern German History; intellectual history; history of emigration and remigration after 1933
• 19th century transatlantic relations; history of terrorism and social radicalism; history of the media

• The Emergence of Terrorism in the Nineteenth Century: Political Assassinations and Public Discourse in Europe and the United States, 1858-1901 more ...

since 2006	Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2005 - 2006	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Graduiertenkolleg "Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present", Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
1999 - 2005	Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck-Institute for History, Göttingen