The history of knowledge analyzes the production and circulation of knowledge, taking into consideration a broad spectrum of actors, practices, and social contexts. It seeks to understand the creation of knowledge orders and systems along with the power relationships upon which they rest. The development of the field has taken different paths in Europe and North America. Consequently, a central objective of the GHI’s program in the history of knowledge is to spur transatlantic exchange on research methodologies. The history of knowledge also serves as vehicle for collaboration across the GHI’s core research fields and other subfields of history. Notably, the GHI’s Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley “Migrant Knowledge” initiative is supporting research at the intersection of migration history and the history of knowledge.
Photo Credit: The Wealth of the Nation, 1938. Seymour Fogel, Social Security Building (Voice of America).
Team
Anna-Carolin Augustin
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
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Axel Jansen
Deputy Director
German Historical Institute Washington
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Kerstin von der Krone
Affiliated Scholar & Co-Editor, History of Knowledge blog
German Historical Institute Washington
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Simone Lässig
Director
German Historical Institute Washington
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Atiba Pertilla
Research Fellow & Digital Editor
German Historical Institute Washington
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Mario Peters
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
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Claudia Roesch
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute Washington
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Swen Steinberg
Affiliated Scholar
German Historical Institute Washington
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Richard F. Wetzell
Research Fellow & Editor
German Historical Institute
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Projects
Publications
Anna Corsten
Unbequeme Erinnerer: Emigrierte Historiker in der westdeutschen und US-amerikanischen NS- und Holocaust-Forschung, 1945–1998
Transatlantische Historische Studien. Band 62. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022.
Read onBulletin 69 (Fall 2021 & Spring 2022)
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 onDas Pazifikbüro des DHI Washington. Aufbauphase 2017-2019
Read onAndrea Westermann & Onur Erdur, eds.
Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
Bulletin Supplement 15 (2020)
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