Directors

The research project is directed by:

 

Philipp Gassert is professor for transatlantic cultural history at the University of Augsburg. He received his Ph.D. and his degree of Habilitation from the University of Heidelberg, where he taught as assistant and associate professor of history from 1999 to 2005. He is one of the co-founders of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and served as its administrative director from 2003 to 2005. In 2005/06 he was Visiting Professor of North American Cultural History at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, in 2006/07 DAAD Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 2008/09 he served as deputy director of the German Historical Institut in Washington, D.C. He received grants and fellowships from the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University Berlin, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and the German Research Council (DFG).

Philipp Gassert’s research focuses on 20th-century century international history, the history of transatlantic relations, National Socialism, and post-1945 contemporary German and European History. He is the author of Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung, 1933-1945 (Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997), Kurt Georg Kiesinger: Kanzler zwischen den Zeiten (DVA, 2006), and co-author of Kleine Geschichte der USA (Stuttgart, 2007, paperback 2008). He is the editor and co-editor of numerous volumes, including 1968 the World Transformed (Cambridge UP, 1998), Germany and the United States in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990 (2 vols., Cambridge UP 2004); and Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (Berghahn Books, 2006). He is completing a study on the 20th century anti-Americanism; he also works on a book on the middle decades of the Federal Republic of Germany entitled Die paradoxe Republik: Westdeutschland von Erhard bis Schmidt, 1963-1982. > more

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Martin Klimke is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg. His 2005 dissertation The Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-1972, was awarded the prestigious Ruprecht-Karls Prize for best doctoral thesis at Heidelberg University in 2006, which was published by Princeton University Press in January 2010. Klimke has been working extensively in the area of transnational history and social movements and has published numerous articles on processes of cultural transfer and global protest networks. He is the co-editor of the publication series Protest, Culture and Society (Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford) and, among others, 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). From 2006-2010, he was the director and coordinator of the international Marie-Curie project European Protest Movements Since 1945, which is supported by the European Commission.

Klimke's research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, as well as diplomatic and transnational history. He has published essays on the transnational dimension of the African American civil rights movement, Black Power in Germany in the 1960/70s, and has co-edited Blacks and Germans, German Blacks: Germany and the Black Diaspora, 1450-1914 (forthcoming), which explores the changing processes of interaction and perception between people of African descent and German-speaking parts of Europe from the eleventh century to the beginning of World War I. Together with Maria 

Höhn, he has written a history of the experience of African-American soldiers, activists and intellectuals in Germany in the 20th century entitled A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Klimke is currently co-editing a collected volume on The Establishment Responds: Power, Politics, and Protest since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011) and writing a biography of peace activists Petra Kelly and Randall Forsberg.

Klimke is currently writing a biography of peace activists Petra Kelly and Randall Forsberg.  > more

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