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
Viola Alianov-Rautenberg
Research Fellow, GHI Pacific Office
Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington
Institute of European Studies | University of California, Berkeley | 249 Philosophy Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720-2316
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Anna-Carolin Augustin
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
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Kerstin von der Krone
Affiliated Scholar
German Historical Institute Washington
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Simone Lässig
Director
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Isabel Richter
Deputy Director
Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington
Institute of European Studies | University of California, Berkeley | 249 Philosophy Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720-2316
Phone +1.202.552.8936
Raphael Rössel
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Swen Steinberg
Affiliated Scholar
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Richard F. Wetzell
Research Fellow & Editor
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC 20009 U.S.A.
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Projects
Publications
Maximilian 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 onMichael Weaver
Political Friendship: Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Studies in German History. Vol. 29. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.
Read onBulletin 72 (Fall 2023)
Forum: The German Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War During The Second World War
Read onAdam Bisno
Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875–1933
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Read onBulletin 71 (Spring 2023)
Read onIlko-Sascha Kowalczuk
End Game: The 1989 Revolution in East Germany
Studies in German History. Vol. 26. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022.
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