Modern German history and the history of German-speaking Jewry have been core research fields at the GHI since the institute’s founding in 1987. German migrations to North America, relations between Germany and the United States, and the flight of German Jews from Nazi Germany have been major research topics since the GHI’s early years. More recently, the GHI has given increased attention to the transnational and global dimensions of German, Central European, and Jewish history.
Photo Credit: E. Zimmermann, Satirical Map of Europe, ca. 1914, Library of Congress.
Team
Anna-Carolin Augustin
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
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Kerstin von der Krone
Affiliated Scholar & Co-Editor, History of Knowledge blog
German Historical Institute Washington
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Simone Lässig
Director
German Historical Institute Washington
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Swen Steinberg
Affiliated Scholar & Co-Editor, Migrant Knowledge Blog
Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington
Phone +1.510.643-4558
Richard F. Wetzell
Research Fellow & Editor
German Historical Institute
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Projects
Publications
Elisabeth Piller
Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918–1933
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 60. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
Read onSophia Dafinger
Die Lehren des Luftkriegs: Sozialwissenschaftliche Expertise in den USA vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis Vietnam
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 59. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.
Read onBulletin 66 (Spring 2020)
Read onAndrea Westermann & Onur Erdur, eds.
Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
Bulletin Supplement 15 (2020)
Read onJohn P.R. Eicher
Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Read onPaul Lerner & Joes Segal, eds.
Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture
Bulletin Supplement 14 (2019)
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