The GHI’s engagement with global and transregional history is an outgrowth of its work in transatlantic history and its longstanding interest in comparative history, especially historical comparisons of the U.S. and Germany. Global and transregional history at the GHI are defined less by subject matter than by analytical perspective. GHI-supported research explores processes that transcend individual polities and entangle disparate states, regions, and continents. The GHI is particularly interested in historical comparison as a tool to illuminate trends and developments at the transregional and global levels.
Photo Credit: Electrification of the World, ca. 1892. Edward Carqueville, Library of Congress.
Team
Andreas Greiner
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
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Phone +1.202.387.3355
Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
Phone +1.202.387.3355
Swen Steinberg
Affiliated Scholar & Co-Editor, Migrant Knowledge Blog
Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington
Phone +1.510.643-4558
Sören Urbansky
Research Fellow & Head of Office, 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 +1.510.643.4558
Projects
Publications
Andrew Kloiber
Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
Studies in German History. Vol. 27. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022.
Read onBulletin 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022)
Read onBulletin 68 (Spring 2021)
Read onJan C. Jansen & Simone Lässig, eds.
Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Read onBulletin 66 (Spring 2020)
Read onAndrea Westermann & Onur Erdur, eds.
Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
Bulletin Supplement 15 (2020)
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Get in Touch
Sören Urbansky
Research Fellow & Head of Office, GHI Pacific Office
Phone +1.510.643.4558