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Dr. Anke Ortlepp

Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington DC 20009
U.S.A.
Phone +1.202.387.3355

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Books: Monographs

  • "Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!" Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 1844-1914, Transatlantische Historische Studien 17 (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2004)


Books: Edited

  • German and African American Crossovers: Two Centuries of Contact, co-edited with Larry A. Greene. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press (under review).
  • Thing Studies: Alltagsgegenstände und amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft. co-edited with Christoph Ribbat. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2009.
  • Gender Talks: Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Bonn, co-edited with Sabine Sielke (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006).
  • New Orientations in the Study of Regionalism, co-edited with Lothar Hönnighausen, James Peacock, Niklaus Steiner (Madison: CSUMSC, 2005).
  • Taking Up Space: New Approaches to American History, co-edited with Christoph Ribbat (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004).
  • The Sixties Revisited: Culture, Society, Politics, co-edited with Jörg Helbig and Jürgen Heideking (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000).


Journal Articles

  • "Airport Security and the Limits of Mobility: The Case of the United States." Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Révue Historique 16.1 (2009): 75-88.
  • "Friendly Skies? Cultures of Airtravel in Postwar America." Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington DC 40 (Spring 2007): 115-125.
  • "'To Infinity and Beyond': Das National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC." Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 3.1 (2006): 158-168.
  • "German American Women’s Clubs: Constructing Women's Roles and Ethnic Identity." Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.3 (2003): 425-442.


Chapters in Edited Collections

  • "'Deutsch-Athen Revisited': Writing the History of Germans in Milwaukee" In Perspectives on Milwaukee’s Past, ed. Margo Anderson and Victor Greene. Champaign: U of Illinois P, forthcoming.
  • "Die Entstehung einer Deutschamerikanischen Frauenbewegung." In Die Deutsche Präsenz in den USA/The German Presence in the USA, ed. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer, 189-210. Berlin: LIT, 2008.
  • "Flugreisen und Männlichkeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg." In Väter, Soldaten, Liebhaber: Männer und Männlichkeiten in der Geschichte Nordamerikas. Ein Reader, ed. Jürgen Martschukat and Olaf Stieglitz, 293-311. Bielefeld: transcript, 2007.
  • "'Aus dem Wiedischen Land': Emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin." In Wisconsin German Land and Life, ed. Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, Robert C. Ostergren, 3-36. Madison: Max Kade Institut, 2006.
  • "German American Women’s Organizations", In Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ed. Thomas Adam, 413-418. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
  • "The Formation of Regional Identity: The Case of German American Women in the Midwest", In New Orientations in the Study of Regionalism, ed. Lothar Hönnighausen, Anke Ortlepp, James Peacock, Niklaus Steiner, 117-131. Madison: CSUMC, 2005.
  • "Taking Up Space: An Introduction" (with Christoph Ribbat), In Taking Up Space: New Approaches to American History, ed. Anke Ortlepp and Christoph Ribbat, i-xi. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004.
  • "'Give to the Poor! Yourself You'll Bless!' Jewish Charities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1850-1914," In German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present, ed. Christof Mauch und Joseph Salmons, 21-39. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
  • "Terrorismus in historischer Perspektive: Vom Chicago Haymarket bis Oklahoma City," In America under Attack: Der 11. September – Folgen, Fragen, Hintergründe, ed. Sabine Sielke, 81-95. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002.


Reviewed Books in: Amerikastudien/American Studies and H-Soz-u-Kult