Mischa Honeck is a research fellow at the GHI who specializes in teaching and researching U.S. history through a transnational lens. He studied medieval and modern history, English, and philosophy at Heidelberg University and Portland State University, Oregon. He earned his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 2008. His first book, We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 (University of Georgia Press, 2011), is a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011. He is co-editor of Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1945 (Berghahn Books, forthcoming). He is currently writing a global history of the Boy Scouts of America from the Progressive Era to the early Cold War.

• 19th/20th Century U.S. History
• Transnational History
  
• History of Ethnicity and Race Relations
  
• Gender History
  
• History of Youth and Youth Movements
  

• "Young Patriots Abroad: A Global History of American Boy Scouting, 1910-1960" more...
  

since 2011	Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2011	Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington DC
2006 - 2011	Instructor (Lehrbeauftragter) at the History Department, Heidelberg University
2005 - 2006	Kade Heideking Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin
2004 - 2006	Teaching Assistant at the History and English Departments, Heidelberg University