Network

Art Studies

• Ellery Foutch, Arresting Beauty: The Perfectionist Impulse in Peale's Butterflies, Heade's Hummingbirds, Blaschaka's Flowers and Sandow's Body, University of Pennsylvania/ USA, Spring Academy 2009
• Karen Patricia Heath, Painting the Town Red: Conservatives and the Politics of Art, From Cold War to Culture War, St. Anne’s College & Faculty of History, University of Oxford/UK, Spring Academy 2012
• Kate Lemay, Forgotten Memorials: The Art and Architecture of the American Cemeteries in France From World War II, Indiana University/ USA, Spring Academy 2011
• Marta Anton Marti, Identity and Nationalism in Abstract-Expressionism: New Approaches to the Native American Heritage of the New York School, Pompeu Fabra University/ Spain, Spring Academy 2009
• Mary Zundo, Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th Century American Art of the Frontier, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/ USA, (Fine and Applied Arts), Spring Academy 2009

Environmental Studies

• Eleonora Rohland, Hurricanes in New Orleans, 1722-2005. An Urban Biography of Disaster, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, KWI/ USA, Spring Academy 2011

Ethnic Studies

• Carmen Dexl, Ethics and Aesthetics of Representations of Lynching in African American Narrative Literature, 1900-1973, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Spring Academy 2008
• Hannah Durkin, Constructions of the Black Female Dancing Body in the Films and Writings of Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham, University of Nottingham, Spring Academy 2010
• Rebecca Fuchs, Caribbeanness as a Global Phenomenon, University of Mannheim, Spring Academy 2010
• Katharina Gerund, Transatlantic Cultural Exchange: African American Women’s Art and Activism in Germany, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Spring Academy 2010
• Silke Hackenesch, Constructing "Blackness": Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in Historical and Cultural Perspective, Free University of Berlin/ Germany, (American History and Culture, Afro-German Studies, Cultural Studies), Spring Academy 2009
• Christopher Minck, Washington and Africa: The Role of Charles C. Diggs, Mr. Africa, University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris/France (African American Studies - U.S. Foreign Policy), Spring Academy 2011
• Nicole Moore, Modeling School Success: The Relationship Between Culturally Responsive Schooling and American Indian and Alaska Native Student Achievement, University of California-Davis/USA, Spring Academy 2012
• Aurélie Roy, Evolutions in Modern Native Activism: Leadership from 1911-Present, University of Arizona/ USA, Spring Academy 2009
• Agnieszka Stasiewicz, Generation at the crossroads. The policy of constructing ethnic identity of immigrants' children and youth: The case study of the Swedish-American publishing house Augustana Book Concern (1889 - 1962), Jagiellonian University, Krakow/ Poland, (Migration and Ethnic Studies), Spring Academy 2008
• Jared Toney, Locating Diaspora: Afro-Caribbean Migration and the Transnational Dialects of Race and Community in North America, 1910-1929, University of Toronto, Spring Academy 2013
• Balázs Venkovits, Images of the Americas: The United States in Latin America in 19th Century Hungarian Travel Literature - A Comparative Study, University of Debrecen/ Hungary, Spring Academy 2009

Film Studies

• Maurizio di Costanzo, Six-Shooter and Katana: The American Western and the Japanese Samurai Film as Reflections of Cultural Currents, LMU München/Germany, Spring Academy 2012
• Pablo Dominguez, Film Stars of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as Embodiments of Gender, Nation and Race, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg University/ Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Milan Hain, The American Films of Hugo Haas, Palacky University Olomouc/ Czech Republic, Spring Academy 2011
• Qijun Han, Chinese American Family in Sinophone Cinema, Utrecht University/The Netherlands, Spring Academy 2011
• Mareike Jenner, “FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE” – The Search for Truth, Justice and Scientific Objectivity in the Contemporary American Crime, University of Aberystwyth/ UK, Spring Academy 2011
• Dietmar Meinel, Exceptional Aesthetics. Reconsidering Aesthetic Experience in the (New) American Exceptionalism of Pixar Films, Freie Universität Berlin/Germany, Spring Academy 2012
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Gender Studies

• Katrin Horn, Deconstructing Gender Hegemony, Queering the Cultural Mainstream: Camp as a Subversive Strategy in the Production and Reception of Contemporary American Popular Culture, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg/Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Philipp Kutzelmann, Wrestlingstars: Die Konstruktion weisser Maskulinität im amerikanischen Professional Wrestling, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München/Germany, Spring Academy 2012

Geography

• Sharon W. Adams, Encountering El Tigre: Jaguars and People in the United States, 1800-2010, The University of Texas at Austin/USA, Spring Academy 2011
• John Elrick, Constitutive Cartographies: The Political Life of Maps in San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley, Spring Academy 2013

History

• Yohanna Alimi, The Reception in Jacksonian America of the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in France, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, Spring Academy 2010
• Anne-Marie Angelo, The Wide Black Power Movement: The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1966-75, Duke University, Spring Academy 2010
• Anna Banhegyi, Where Marx Meets Osceola: Ideology and Mythology in the Eastern Bloc Western, Southern Methodist University/ USA, Spring Academy 2009
• David Bassano, The Central America Human Rights Movement: An Analysis of Operations and Outcomes, University at Albany, Spring Academy 2010
• Franziska Bechtel, New Harmony – The Experiment and Its Legacy, J. W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main/Germany, Spring Academy 2012
• Albertine Bloemendal, Ernst van der Beugel - A Transatlantic Mediator, Leiden University/Roosevelt Study Center/ The Netherlands, Spring Academy 2011
• Brandon Byrd, An Experiment in Self-Government: Haiti in the African American Political Imagination, 1863-1915, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/USA, Spring Academy 2012
• Ari Cushner, Holding the Center: Cold War Liberalism, the Non-Communist Left, and American Global Power 1945-1968, University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring Academy  2012
• Mikkel Dack, Denazification in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-1949, University of Calgary, Spring Academy 2013
• Natalie Deibel, "For Profit, Pleasure and Sport": Recreation, Culture and Society in Early America, 1600-1750, George Washington University/USA, Spring Academy 2011
• Elsa Devienne, Beaches in the City: The Making of Los Angeles’s Beaches, 1920s-1972, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Spring Academy 2013
• David Doddington, Hierarchies and Honour Among Enslaved Men in the Antebellum South, University of Warwick/UK, Spring Academy 2011
• Holger Drössler, Racism, Nationalism, and Interracial Relationships in the United States and Germany, 1877-1914, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich/ Germany, Spring Academy 2009
• Ray Eberling, ’Come on Down’: The Selling of the Florida Dream, 1945-1965, Heidelberg University/Germany, Spring Academy 2008
• Jacob S. Eder, Sanitizing the Nazi Past? West German Cultural Diplomacy versus the “Americanization of the Holocaust”, University of Pennsylvania, Spring Academy2010
• Patrick Gaul, The Reception of the American Civil War in the States of the German Confederation, 1861-1865, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/Germany, Spring Academy 2012
• Carmen Gomez-Galisteo, Dilligent Writers of America: William Bradford's and Alva Nuñez de Vaca's Representation of America, University of Alcala/ Spain, (Early American History), Spring Academy 2009
• Juliane Graf, Crossing Boundaries: German Immigrants to the U.S. Between Transcultural
  Challenge and the Realities of the Everyday, 1830 – 1900, Graduate School of North American Studies (FU Berlin), Spring Academy 2010
• Ruth Hatlapa, U.S. Presidents as Projection Screen for European Anxieties and Ideals since the End of the Cold War in Western European Media, University of Augsburg/Germany
• Frédéric Heurtebize, Washington's Attitude towards Eurocommunism in France and Italy: 1974-81, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris II), (Diplomatic History), Spring Academy 2010
• Vilja Hulden, Employers, Unite? Organized Business Responses to the Rise of Labor Unions in the United States, 1900-1930, University of Arizona/ USA, Spring Academy 2009
• Julia Irwin, Humanitarian Occupations: International Assistance, Voluntary Diplomacy, and the American Red Cross, 1898-1928, Yale University/ USA, (Histories of U.S. Welfare and U.S. Internationalism), Spring Academy 2009
• Ida Jahr, Necessary Developments of the Modern? American Studies in Norway from WWII until Today, FU Berlin/ Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Saara Kekki, Making Good Americans - US Assimilation Policies toward Japanese Americans and Native Americans through 1940s-1950s, University of Helsinki/Finland, Spring Academy 2011
• Anna Koivusalo, Honor and Politics in the Nineteenth-Century American South: The Life and Career of James Chesnut, Jr., University of Helsinki / Finland, Spring Academy 2011
• Céline Letemplé, To be or not to be an empire: history and recent developments of an American dilemma, University of Paris Ouest (Paris X), Nanterre/ France, ( Political Science, U.S. Foreign Policy), Spring Academy 2006
• Marlen Lux, Diverging Paths. Samuel Northrup Harper and the Formation of the Bolshevik Enemy Image in the US during World War I, Free University Berlin/Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Melissa Amy Maestri, Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave: Comparing Slavery in 18th Century New York City and Charleston, University of Delaware/USA, Spring Academy 2010
• Alessandra Magrin, A Comparative study of Buffalo Bill's Wild West's Tours in Italy 1890-1906, University of Strathclyde/UK, Spring Academy 2012
• Peter N. Marquis, Brooklyn and "its" Dodgers. Baseball and the making of urban identities in the US, 1883-1957, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris/ France, (Sports Studies, American Sports History), Spring Academy 2007
• Ruth Martin, American Civil Liberties, Fear and Conformity, 1937-1969, University of Cambridge / UK, Spring Academy 2012
• Stephen Mawdsley, Promoting Polio Prophylaxis: The National Foundation and the Politics of Polio Immunization in 20th Century America, University of Cambridge/ UK, Spring Academy 2009
• Mahshid Mayar, Can You Grow Up? Childhood and Empire in a Smaller World, Universität Bielefeld/ Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Anja Milde, "Pansies", "Dikes," and Panthers: Coalitions in the Civil and Gay Rights Movements, Heidelberg University/ Germany, Spring Academy 2009
• Caroline Morris, The “Voice of Virginia”: WRVA and Conversations of Nationhood, College of William and Mary/USA, Spring Academy 2011
• Paul Musselwhite, Towns in Mind: Debating Urbanization and Empire in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1650-1750, The College of William and Mary, (Early American History), Spring Academy 2010
• Sabrina Otterloo, Democratization and Domestic Terrorism: The Organization and Triumph of the Democratic Party in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1878, Leiden University / The Netherlands, Spring Academy 2011
• Emmanuelle Perez, Between Mexico and the United States of America, Californios and Politics, 1810-1879, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/France, Spring Academy 2013
• Marieke Polfliet, Emigration and politicization: French migrants in New York and New Orleans in the first half of the XIXth century (1803-1860), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Spring Academy 2010
• Jennifer L. Rodgers, From the 'Archive of Horror' to the 'Shop Window of Democracy:' The International Tracing Service and the Transatlantic Politics of the Past in the Cold War Era, UPenn/USA, Spring Academy 2011
• Atef Said, From Extradition to Extraordinary Rendition: The Politics of U.S. Sovereignty Since the Nineteenth Century, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor/USA
• Christine Schnaithmann, The knowledge architecture of office work. Frank Lloyd Wrights Larkin Administration Building, 1906-1950, Humbold-Universität Berlin/Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Carin Peller Semmens, Torrent of Fury: From Slavery to Freedom in the New Cotton South, 1820-1880, University of Sussex/UK, Spring Academy 2013
• Taeko Shibahara, To Bridge the Great Abyss of Two Cultures: Transnationalism and Gender in the Interwar Period, Doshisha University/ Japan, (Southern History and Cultures Studies), Spring Academy 2009
• David Sittler, History of the metropolitan Street as Mass Medium, Chicago 1870-1930, Erfurt University/Germany, Spring Academy 2012
• Annessa C. Stagner, Defining the Soldier’s Wounds: U.S. Shell Shock in International Perspective, University of California, Irvine/ USA, Spring Academy 2011
• Nina Vollenbröker, Rootedness in Mobility: Spring Academye and Spatial Relationships in the Nineteenth-Century American West, University College London (UCL)/UK, Spring Academy 2011
• Mark Leon de Vries, The Reconstruction Struggle Between Local and Federal Administration in Louisiana's Red River Valley, Leiden University/The Netherlands, Spring Academy 2012
• Christian Wilbers, Between Third Reich and American Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1920 - 1945, The College of William and Mary/USA, Spring Academy 2011
• Shannen Dee Williams, Subversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America after World War I, Rutgers University New Brunswick/USA, Spring Academy2011
• Maarten Zwiers, Between Party and Principle: James Eastland, the Democratic Tradition, and the Southern Way of Life, University of Groningen/the Netherlands, (Southern Studies), Spring Academy 2008

Literature

• Katrien Bollen, Underground or Six Feet Under? A Case-Study of The Unbearables. Downtown New York, 1974-2001, Ghent University/ Belgium, (Urban Studies), Spring Academy 2009
• Olesya Bondarenko, Visual Politics and Production of Presence in Rae Armantrout`s Work: Transforming Philosophical Poetry, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Spring Academy 2012
• Dustin Breitenwischer, The Narrative of Networking: The ‘In-Between’ in the American Novel, 1897-1997, FU Berlin/ Germany, Spring Academy 2013
• Joy A.J. Howard, Stories of Spirit Possession in Early America, 1650-1850, Purdue University/ USA, (American Literature before 1860), Spring Academy 2009
• Martina Kado, Re-examining the Role of the Sea in Maritime Narratives of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad, University of Zagreb, Spring Academy 2013
• Izabella Kimak, Women at Cultural Crossroads: Female Body and Sexuality in South Asian American Literature, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin/ Poland, Spring Academy 2007
• Blaz Kosovel, New Perspectives on Postmodernism: How Postmodernism Emerged from the American Concept of Culture and the Managerial Logic of the Corporation, University of Primorska, Koper/ Slovenia, Spring Academy 2011
• Julia Lichtenstein, Inner and Outer Spring Academye: Literary Negotiations of Southern Identity in Postsouthern Times, Heidelberg University/Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Marta Lysik, Religion, Gender, and the Narrative in the Works of Louise Erdrich, Humboldt-Universität Berlin/Germany (Institute for English and American Studies), Spring Academy 2010
• Ani Maitra, Narcissism and the Scene of Reading: Towards a Global Politics of Aesthetic, Brown University/USA
• Christian Maul, "One World at a Time?" Henry David Thoreau's Individualism in the Light of Communitarian Theory, Heidelberg University/ Germany, Spring Academy 2009
• Evelyn P. Mayer, Beyond Border Binaries: Canada-U.S. Border Fiction, University of Mainz / FTSK Germersheim/Germany
• Katie McGettigan, The Literary Marketplace in the Fiction of Herman Melville, Keele University/UK, Spring Academy 2011
• Mihaela Roxana Mihele, Saul Bellow - Beyond the Community, Babes-Bolyai-University/ Romania, Spring Academy 2009
• Cansu Özge Özmen, American Travel Narratives of the Orient (1830-1970). A Study in 19th Century Latent American Orientalism, Jacobs University Bremen/ Germany, (Intercultural Humanities), Spring Academy 2009
• Amelia Nan, Woody Allen: Between Literature and Cinema - Jewish Heritage and Western Urban Thinking Patterns in Woody Allen's Work, Babes-Bolyai Univestity/Romania
• Ashley Reed, Outsider Theology: Doctrinal Debate in Fiction and Narrative Writing by Marginalized U.S. Authors, 1820-1870, UNC at Chapel Hill/USA
• Erhan Simsek, Changing Images of Business and Businessmen in American Fiction, 1880-1929, Heidelberg Center for American Studies [Universität Heidelberg], Spring Academy 2013
• Katja Urbatsch, Representations of Money in the U.S. American Novel from the Perspective of the New Economic Criticism: From Gold Standard to Fiat Money, 1899-2003, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen/ Germany, Spring Academy 2009
• Marta Werbanowska, Gender, Ethnicity and Literary Tradition in the Works of Selected American Spoken Word Artists, University of Warsaw/ Poland, Spring Academy 2011

Music

• Ann Ostendorf, Sounding America: Identity and the Music Culture of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860, Marquette University/ USA, Spring Academy 2009
• Christian O'Connell, Dreaming Up the Blues: Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship, University of Gloucestershire, Spring Academy 2012

Performance Studies

• Tiffany Noell, Confronting Convention: The Perils of Innovation in Contemporary Native American Women's Theatre, Arizona State University, (Theatre and Performance of the Americas), Spring Academy 2010

Political Science

• Amandine Barb, Church/State Relations in the United States since the 1980s, Science Po Paris (CERI)/France, Spring Academy 2010
• Se Young Jang, Dealing with Allies’ Nuclear Ambitions: US Non-Proliferation Policy Towards Taiwan and South Korea, 1968-1981, Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies/Switzerland, Spring Academy 2013
• Eva-Maria Kiefer, Is the U.S. Democracy Safe in Crisis? A New Assessment of Congressional Reaction to Threat Inflation due to Changed Paradigms After 9/11, Heidelberg University/ Germany, Spring Academy 2011
• Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., An American Behemoth: Antinomies of Freedom and Security in Post-9/11 U.S. Foreign Policy, Freie Universität Berlin, Spring Academy 2012
• Atef Said, From Extradition to Extraordinary Rendition: The Politics of U.S. Sovereignty Since the Nineteenth Century, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor/USA
• Utku Sezgin, Remaking Nationhood: Assimilation, and Citizenship among College-Educated Second Generation Immigrants in New York and Berlin, University of New York/USA, Spring Academy 2009
• Derek William Vallès, Theory and Design of Deliberative Democracy, The London School of Economics & Political Science/UK, Spring Academy 2011
• Bernd Volkert, Distant Relatives. American Neo-Conservatives and Their Relationship to German Intellectuals, Free University of Berlin/ Germany, Spring Academy 2009

Popular Culture

• Ramzi Fawaz, Heroic Measures: Comic Book Superheroes, Popular Fantasy, and the Politics of American Visual Culture, 1954-2006, George-Washington-University/ USA, Spring Academy 2009

Sociology

• Maria Margarita Gonzales Cardena, Urban Planning Criticism in the United States (1950-1970), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, Spring Academy 2010
• Laura Lopez-Sanders, Is Brown the New Black? Immigrant Incorporation in the Contemporary U.S. South, Stanford University/ USA, (Immigration and Ethnic Studies), Spring Academy 2009

Religion

• Philippa Koch, Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America, University of Chicago/USA, Spring Academy 2013
• Hilde Løvdal, Defending Faith and Family: A Qualitative Historical Analysis of Focus on the Family's Message and Appeal to American Evangelicals, University of Oslo/ Norway, Spring Academy 2009