Anke Ortlepp is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of American cultural history and the history of travel and tourism. Trained at the University of Cologne and Harvard University, she is the author of Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern! Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914 and co-edited Taking Up Space: New Approaches to American History. She is currently working on a project entitled Cultures of Airtravel in Postwar America. She has taught at the University of Bonn and the University of Cologne.

since 2008	Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2007 - 2008	Acting Director, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2007	Deputy Director, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2005 - 2007	Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2000 - 2005	Assistant Professor of American History, North American Studies Program, University of Bonn and Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne (joint appointment)
1998 - 2000	Assistant Professor of American History, Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne
1996	Visiting Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of History
1998 - 2000	Research Fellow, Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne