APPLY NOW FOR 2022!
For students interested in studying abroad there is a new opportunity to spend one semester in the United States. Three places are available which will be supported by full financing by the DAAD through 2021.
Master students of the MA History with a focus on modern times can apply for the Exchange Programm with Temple Universityin Philadelphia.
Exciting impressions from our (former) exchange students can be found in our new blog UETEach - Uni Erfurt Temple Exchang and further information on the pages of the Chair of North American Historyand the International Office.
For further questions, please contact Prof. Jürgen Martschukat
The deadline for application at the International Officefor the fall term 2022 is December 2nd, 2021.
The Chair of North American History is pleased to announce the formation of a new group of researchers with a focus on "Contested Democracy". The work, which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and will begin on February 2nd, 2021. The group consists of two subprojects:
In the context of her project "Women’s history als Demokratisierung: Gerda Lerner (1920-2013)", Dr. Vera Kallenberg will write the first biography of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a Jewish emigré, left-wing activist, feminist writer, public intellectual and American history professor.
A PhD project will conduct research on "Identity Politics as a Decisive Political Form: Hegemonic Forces in the Conflict over Democratic Participation in the U.S. since the 1970s", looking at hegemonic identity politics in the 1970s with a special focus on whiteness, masculinity and heterosexuality discourses.
The PhD project "'Let's Make America Great Again' - A History of Nostalgia as a United States Identity Ideology in the 1980s" by Lisa Patt is associated with the project.
The chair is pleased to announce the creation of the research group "Voluntariness" at the History Department at Erfurt University. The group, which is funded by the DFG for three years starting in October 2020, is concerned with voluntariness as a political practice in history and the present. The basic assumption of the group is that various types of voluntariness are of central importance for the governance of different societies.
Spokseperson of the group isProf. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat
There is a subproject titled "Voluntariness and Political Practice in the Emerging USA" at the Chair of North American History as well. It is being worked on by Pia Herzan (University of Erfurt).
The Chair of North American History congratulates Dr. Vera Kallenberg for her monograph "Jüdinnen und Juden in der Frankfurter Strafjustiz 1780-1814. Die Nicht-Einheit der jüdischen Geschichte" (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2018. https://bit.ly/2KQG6Gm) being honored with the Arno Lustiger Price 2019 for academic excellence in the field of german-jewish history by the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, as part of the Rosl und Paul Arnsberg Price.
The Chair of North American History thanks the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for supporting Dr. Silvan Niedermeier's research project "Returning the Colonial Gaze. Photography and Counterhegemonic Subject Positions in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902)".
The 24 months long project started in April 2020.
The department is delighted by the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) for the research project "Armed Self-Defense in Recent America: Intersectional Perspectives". The cooperation with Prof. Barbara Lüthi (Köln University) and Prof. Simon Wendt (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main).
The research project started in October 2018.
Together with colleagues from the Faculty of Philosophy and the Max Weber College at the University of Erfurt, Jürgen Martschukat is a Principal Investigator in an international research training group at the University of Erfurt in cooperation with the University of Graz on the topic of "Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices". Interested persons from the field of modern and especially North American history should pay attention to event announcements and regular job advertisements.
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