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
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
Andreas Greiner
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW | Washington DC 20009
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
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
Swen Steinberg
Affiliated Scholar & Co-Editor, Migrant Knowledge Blog
Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington
Phone +1.510.643-4558
Projects
Publications
Christina 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 onMichelle Lynn Kahn
Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge University Press, 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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