The GHI approaches the history of the Americas from a broad and increasingly global perspective. Building on its long-standing engagement with North American history and the history of transatlantic relations, research at the institute explores the societies of the Americas, their entanglements with the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Worlds, and the interconnectedness of the Western Hemisphere.
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Team
Axel Jansen
Deputy Director
German Historical Institute Washington
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Jana Dunz-Keck
Research Fellow, Digital History
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Amy Kerner
Research Fellow, GHI Pacific Office Berkeley
GHI Pacific Office Berkeley
Institute of European Studies | University of California, Berkeley | 249 Philosophy Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720-2316
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Atiba Pertilla
Research Fellow (Let the people of the past speak-Project) and Digital Editor
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Mario Peters
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Raphael Rössel
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Projects
Publications
Bulletin 77 (Spring 2026)
Read onBulletin 75 (Spring 2025)
Forum: Concrete Dreams: The Built Environment and Human Behavior in Europe’s Twentieth Century
Read onChristina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Simon Siemianowski, eds.
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging
Studies in German History. Vol. 30. New York: Berghahn Books, 2025.
Read onBulletin 74 (Fall 2024)
Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence
Read onMaximilian Klose
Why They Gave: CARE and American Aid for Germany after 1945
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 63. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024.
Read onJan C. Jansen & Kirsten McKenzie, eds.
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Read onBulletin 72 (Fall 2023)
Forum: The German Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War During The Second World War
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Get in Touch
Atiba Pertilla
Research Fellow (Let the people of the past speak-Project) and Digital Editor
Phone +1.202.387.3355