Areas of Research:
US American cultural history, history of the US South, African American history, history of violence, visual history, colonial history, history of US imperialism
Current Project:
Returning the Colonial Gaze. Photography and Counterhegemonic Subject Positions in the Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
Dissertation:
Silvan Niedermeier, Rassismus und Bürgerrechte. Polizeifolter im Süden der USA 1930-1955. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2014. Link
Book review: Link
Silvan Niedermeier, The Color of the Third Degree. Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Link