Prof. Dr. Philipp Gassert. Short CV

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1 Short CV 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 He is one of the co-founders of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and served as its administrative director from 2003 to 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, (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, (2 vols., Cambridge UP 2004); and Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, (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,

2 Education Primary and Secondary Eucation, Wertheim am Main Military Service Heidelberg University, undergraduate studies in History, Economics, German Languages and Literature, and Public Law Université Catholique de l Ouest, Angers (France), Exchange Student Heidelberg University, M.A. in History, Economic History, and Public Law (February 1991) 1991/92 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA), graduate studies Heidelberg University, Ph.D. in History (February 1996); Dissertation supervisor: Detlef Junker 2004 Habilitation ("Second Book"), Venia Legendi ("teaching permission") for modern history Professional Positions Research Assistant, University of Heidelberg Heidelberg College (Tiffin, Ohio), Junior Year at Heidelberg, Tutor 1994 Heidelberg University, History Department, Associate Lecturer Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C Assistant Professor of History, University of Heidelberg Managing Director, Heidelberg Center for American Studies Visiting Professor of North American Cultural History, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of History, Heidelberg University (on leave since 2005) Deputy Director, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. since 2009, Professor (W2) for Transatlantic Cultural History Fellowships 1990 Free University of Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Research Grant 1991/92 German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD), Doctoral Research Grant 1992 University of Heidelberg, Doctoral Fellowship Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Doctoral Fellowship 1993 Verein zur Förderung der Schurman-Bibliothek (History Department, Heidelberg University), Travel Grant 1994 Free University Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Reseach Grant 1997 Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation, Dissertation Publication Grant 1999 Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Austin, Texas, Moody Research Grant)

3 2001 German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), Travel Grant 2001 Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, German-American Center for Visiting Scholars (GACVS), Washington, D.C., Visiting Fellowship German Research Council (DFG), Habilitation Research Grant 2007 Honorary Member, Delta Phi Alpha, Rho Chapter (University of Pennsylvania) ERP Special Fund, Research Project "Transcultural Atlantic" Membership and Service in Professional Organizations/ Conference Organization Membership and Service in Professional Organizations , 2008 Academic Co-Chair of the Spring Academy for American History, Politics, and Culture Advisory Member of the Governing Board of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies Member of the Studies Commission of the School of History and Philosophy of the Heidelberg University Representative of the Research Fellows in the Academic Advisory Council of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC Treasuer of the Heidelberg Section of the Association des États Généraux des Étudiants de l'europe (AEGEE), Member of the European Board of Directors of AEGEE President of the Heidelberg Section of AEGEE Service on Editorial Boards since 2008 Co-editor of Transatlantische Historische Studien Service on Selection Committees , 2008 Member, Selection Committee, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships, sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington DC 1995, 2006 Member, Selection Committee, Schurman Prize for American History, University of Heidelberg 2004 Member, Selections Committee, Curt Engelhorn Professorship in American History, University of Heidelberg 2002, 2004 Member, Selection Committee, University of Heidelberg Transatlantic Exchange Programs Referee for Academic Journals and University Presses Peer-reviewed article and book, manuscripts for: Transatlantische Historische Studien, University of Florida Press, Journal of Modern European History, Verlag Muster-Schmidt (Persönlichkeit und Geschichte)

4 Conferences and Workshops Organized and Co-Organized (selection) "Perspectives on National Socialism, World War II, and the Holocaust: Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg." German Historical Institute, Washington DC, May 2, "U.S. Politics and the Mass Media: Historical Perspectives." Panel at the Annual Conference oft he German Association for American Studies (DGFA), Göttingen, June "Historische Forschung und Internationalisierung: Die Geschichtswissenschaft am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts." Symposion, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut/Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, June 25, "The History of American Studies in 20th Century Germany." Workshop at the Annual Conference oft he German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Amerika-Haus, Munich, June 12, "How American is Globalization/How Globalized is America?" Annual Meeting oft the Historians in the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Haus Maria Rosenberg, Pirmasens, February 21-23, 2003 (in cooperation with Atlantische Akademie Rheinland- Pfalz). "Reexamining the Legacy of the Third Reich: West German Debates on National Socialism during the 1960s." Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington DC, October 4-7, 2001 "Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany: The 1960s." International conference, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, April 19-21, "First Ladies in den Vereinigten Staaten und Europa: Institution und Image im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert." International Conference, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, Lambrecht, December 6-8, "GIs in Germany: The Social, Military, and Political History of the American Military Presence, " International Conference, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, November "Business as Usual? Conceptions of German-American Economic Relations under Hitler." Panel at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Houston, October 5, "A Partnership Transformed: Germany and the United States in the 1960s." Workshop with former decision makers, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, June 22, "The Genesis of Nazi Policy: Structure and Decision-Making Process: New Research on the National Socialist System of Rule." International conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Apriil 9-12, "Ostpolitik: Domestic and International Dimensions, ," panel at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 9, 1998.

5 "Politics and Propaganda: New Approaches to German-American Relations, " Panel at the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Georgetown University, June 22, "1968: The World Transformed." International conference, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, May 23-25, "Germany and the United States in the Era of the Cold War, " Workshop, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, June 6-8, Publications Monographs: Kleine Geschichte der USA, co-authored with Mark Häberlein und Michael Wala, Stuttgart: Reclam, (paperback edition 2008) (Reviews) Kurt Georg Kiesinger, : Kanzler zwischen den Zeiten. Munich: DVA, (Reviews) Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997 (English translation with Cambridge UP in preparation). Edited Books: Was Amerika ausmacht. Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven, co-edited with Detlef Junker und Wilfried Mausbach. Heidelberg: Winter, in preparation, forthcoming Coping with the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, , co-edited with Alan E. Steinweis. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006, paperback edition, (Reviews) Kurt Georg Kiesinger : Von Ebingen ins Kanzleramt, co-edited with Günter Buchstab and Peter Thaddäus Lang. Freiburg: Herder, (Reviews) Deutschland und die USA in der Internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift für Detlef Junker, co-edited with Manfred Berg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, (Reviews) Geschichte ist immer Gegenwart: Vier Thesen zur Zeitgeschichte, co-edited with Jörg Baberowski, Eckart Conze, and Martin Sabrow. Stuttgart/München: DVA, Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges, : Ein Handbuch, coedited with Detlef Junker, Wilfried Mausbach, and David B. Morris. 2 vols., München: DVA, 2001, English translation with Cambridge University Press, 2004). The Hitler Library: A Bibliography, co-edited with Daniel S. Mattern. Westport: Greenwood Publishers, Mrs. President: Von Martha Washington bis Hillary Clinton, co-edited with Christof Mauch. Munich: DVA, 2000, Czech translation Prague: Brana, 2001; Estonian translation: Huma 2002.

6 1968: The World Transformed, co-edited with Carole Fink and Detlef Junker. New York: Cambridge University Press, in West Germany: A Guide to Sources and Literature of the Extra-Parliamentarian Opposition, co-edited with Pavel A. Richter. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 1998 (GHI Reference Guide No. 9). Journal Articles: "Vom Nationalsozialismus zur Demokratie: Kurt Georg Kiesinger in der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts." Geschichte und Politik in der Schule 44 (2007): "Eine Ohrfeige für die Demokratie? Beate Klarsfelds symbolische Strafaktion." Ästhetik und Kommunikation 36 (Fall 2005), "Between Political Reconnaissance Work and Democratizing Science: American Studies in Germany, " Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington DC 32 (Spring 2003): "Ein Wendepunkt der Nachkriegszeit? '1968' in der Jubiläumsliteratur zum Dreißigsten." Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft 15 (2002): "Ex Occidente Lux? Der Westen als nationaler Mythos der Berliner Republik." Vorgänge 154 (June 2001): "'This is Hans Fritzsche': A Nazi Broadcaster and His Audience." Journal of Radio Studies 8 (2001), "Was meint Amerikanisierung? Über den Begriff des Jahrhunderts." Merkur 617/618 (2000): "Amerikanismus, Antiamerikanismus, Amerikanisierung: Neue Literatur zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des amerikanischen Einflusses in Deutschland und Europa." Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 39 (1999): "Neue Literatur über Joseph Goebbels und die nationalsozialistische Propaganda." Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft 7 (1994): Chapters in Edited Collections: "Geliebter Feind: Deutscher Antiamerikanismus in den Nachkriegszeiten seit 1945." In Amerika: Werkleitz Festival 2008 (forthcoming). "Kein annus mirabilis: 1968 in den USA." In 1968, edited by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (forthcoming). "Die CDU/CSU in der ersten Großen Koalition." In "1968" und die Konstellationen in der zweiten Hälfte der 1960er Jahre, edited by Peter März (forthcoming). "Zweimal Große Koalitionen: 1966 bis 1969 und seit 2005." In Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine Bilanz nach 60 Jahren, edited by Hans-Peter Schwarz (forthcoming).

7 "Blick über den Atlantik: Die ZEIT und Amerika in den 1960er Jahren." In Die Zeit und die Bonner Republik: Eine meinungsbildende Wochenzeitung zwischen Wiederbewaffnung und Wiedervereinigung. edited by Christian Haase and Axel Schildt, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008 (forthcoming). "Geschichte." In Länderbericht USA (2008 edition), 26-97, edited by Peter Lösche (forthcoming). "Phasen Großer Koalitionen." In 60 Jahre Bundesrepublik, 20 Jahre Ende der Teilung, edited by Hans-Peter Schwarz (forthcoming). (with Christina von Hodenberg). "Medien: Manipulation und Markt." In Wettlauf um die Moderne, edited by Kiran Patel and Christof Mauch, Munich: Pantheon, (Reviews) "Das nationalsozialistische Deutschland in den internationalen Beziehungen." In Das "Dritte Reich": Eine Einführung, edited by Dietmar Süß and Winfried Süß, Munich: Pantheon, "Narratives of Democratization: 1968 in Postwar Europe." In 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, , edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, New York: Palgrave, "'Heidelberg, die Unversehrte'? Neubeginn, Rekonstruktion und konservative Modernisierung " In Die Zeit nach dem Krieg: Städte im Wiederaufbau, edited by Karl Moersch and Reinhold Weber, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, "'Völker Europas, wahrt Eure heiligsten Güter': Die Alte Welt und die Japanische Herausforderung." In Der Russisch-Japanische Krieg 1904/05: Anbruch einer neuen Zeit? edited by Maik Hendrik Sprotte, Wolfgang Seifert, and Heinz-Dietrich Löwe, Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, "Die Klarsfeld-Ohrfeige." In Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung Skandale, edited by Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn: "The Study of U.S. History in Germany." In Teaching and Studying U.S. History in Europe: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Silvia Horton and Kees van Minnen, Amsterdam: Free University Press, "What then is the Anti-American, this new Man? On Power and Culture in the Anti- American Century." In America and Europe: Cultures in Translation, edited by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hünemörder, and Meike Zwingenberger, Heidelberg: Winter, "Der Kanzler der Großen Koalition." In Die Bundeskanzler und ihre Ämter, edited by the Federal Chancellor's Office and Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 60-75, Bonn, "Anti-Amerikaner? Die deutsche Neue Linke und die USA." In Anti-Amerikanismus im 20. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Ost- und Westeuropa, edited by Jan C. Behrends, Árpád von Klimo, and Patrice G. Poutrus, Bonn: Dietz, 2005.

8 "Einleitung: Von Ebingen in das Amt des Bundeskanzlers." In Kurt Georg Kiesinger : Von Ebingen ins Kanzleramt, edited by Günter Buchstab, Philipp Gassert, and Peter Thaddäus Lang, Freiburg: Herder, "Im Schatten Adenauers: Kurt Georg Kiesinger als parlamentarischer Außenpolitiker in den 1950er Jahren" In Kurt Georg Kiesinger : Von Ebingen ins Kanzleramt, edited by Günter Buchstab, Philipp Gassert, and Peter Thaddäus Lang Freibur: Herder, "Kurt Georg Kiesinger ( )." In Politische Köpfe aus Südwestdeutschland, edited by Reinhold Weber and Ines Mayer, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, "Keine rein geschäftliche Angelegenheit: Die amerikanischen Investitionen und die '- Feindvermögensfrage' im Dritten Reich." In Deutschland und die USA in der Internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift für Detlef Junker, edited by Manfred Berg and Philipp Gassert, , Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, "Vor der DGfA: Deutsche Amerikaforschung zwischen Erstem Weltkrieg und früher Bundesrepublik." In Amerikaforschung in Deutschland: Themen und Institutionen der Politikwissenschaft nach 1945, edited by Michael Dreyer, Markus Kaim, and Markus Lang, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, "Politik und Geist: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, " In Kurt Georg Kiesinger: Rechtslehrer, Ministerpräsident, Bundeskanzler. Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag, edited by Albrecht Ernst, 15-54, Stuttgart: Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, "'Wir müssen bewahren, was wir geschaffen haben, auch über eine kritische Zeit hinweg': Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Frankreich, und das europäische Projekt." In Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die europäische Einigung, : Politische Akteure, gesellschaftliche Kräfte und internationale Erfahrungen, edited by Mareike König and Matthias Schulz, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, "Atlantic Alliances: Cross-Cultural Communication and the 1960s Student Revolution." In Culture and International Relations, edited by Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Frank Schumacher, New York: Berghahn, "Wer wir sind und was wir sehen können: Die 'Nachgeborenen' und die frühe Bundesrepublik." In Die frühen Jahre des Erfolgsmodells BRD. Oder: Die Dekonstruktion der Bilder von der formativen Phase unserer Gesellschaft durch die Nachgeborenen, edited by Jörg Calließ, Pößneck: "Die Bundesrepublik, Europa und der Westen: Zu Verwestlichung, Demokratisierung und einigen komparatistischen Defiziten der zeithistorischen Forschung." In Geschichte ist immer Gegenwart: Vier Thesen zur Zeitgeschichte, edited by Jörg Baberowski, Eckart Conze, Philipp Gassert, and Martin Sabrow, Stuttgart/Munich: DVA, "Gegen Ost und West: Antiamerikanismus in der Bundesrepublik, " In Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges, : Ein Handbuch, edited by Detlef Junker, et al., Vol. 1: Stuttgart/Munich: DVA, 2001 (English translation with Cambridge University Press. 2004). "Mit Amerika gegen Amerika: Antiamerikanismus in Westdeutschland, " In Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges, : Ein Handbuch,

9 edited by Detlef Junker, et al., Vol. 2: Stuttgart/Munich: DVA, 2001 (English translation with Cambridge University Press, 2004). "Personalities and the Politics of European Integration: Kurt Georg Kiesinger and the Departure of Walter Hallstein, 1966/67." In Crises and Compromises: The European Project , edited by Wilfried Loth, Baden-Baden/Brüssel: Nomos, "Nationalsozialismus, Amerikanismus, Technologie: Zur Kritik der amerikanischen Moderne im Dritten Reich." In Technologie und Kultur: Europas Blick auf Amerika vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Michael Wala und Ursula Lehmkuhl, Cologne: Böhlau "Die Vorläuferin Sarah Childress Polk." In Mrs. President: Von Martha Washington bis Hillary Clinton, edited by Philipp Gassert and Christof Mauch, Stuttgart/Munich: DVA, "Präsidentengattin par excellence Lady Bird Johnson." In Mrs. President: Von Martha Washington bis Hillary Clinton, edited by Philipp Gassert and Christof Mauch, Stuttgart/Munich: DVA, "Without Concessions to Marxist or Communist Thought: Fordism in Germany, " In Transatlantic Images and Perceptions: Germany and America Since 1776, edited by David E. Barclay and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, New York: Cambridge University Press, Book Reviews: Philipp Gassert has published reviews in: Amerikastudien, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, Austrian History Yearbook, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German Studies Review, German Politics and Society, H-Soz-U-Kult, International History Review, Das Historischpolitische Buch, Historische Zeitschrift, Journal of Cold War Studies, Periplus, Staatsanzeiger Baden-Württemberg, Vorgänge, Die Zeit, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft Research Projects The Nuclear Crisis in the 1970s and 1980s The research project covers the European and Transatlantic perspectives of the nuclear crisis in the 1970s and 1980s. It has been initiated in cooperation with the GHI Washington, D.C.. The project includes the creation of a digital archive. More at Network Processes of European and North American Elites Within the frame of a project on the transcultural Atlantic the networking processes of European and North American elites will be analyzed. The research concentrates on the generation of communities in the economy, academia, and media as well as in the political, military and cultural areas. More at

10 The Anti-American Century This project is designed to analyze the retroactive influence of the European outreach across the Atlantic on the Europeans themselves. The research mainly concentrates on the European and global anti-americanism in the 19 th and 20 th century. The Paradoxical Republic - West Germany The inner-german debate about the National Socialism and the extraparliamentary revolt in 1968 constitute two of the main research interests in the period of contemporary German history. Teaching Courses taught at the University of Heidelberg, Ludwigs Maximilians University Munich, University of Pennsylvania. Lecture Courses Germany since 1815 Europe after 1945 The United States, The United States since 1917 History of the American West US Media History Undergraduate seminars European Images of the United States Anti-Americanism Debating National Socialism Uneasy Neighbors: Europe and Islam European Integration, The Federalist Articles 19th Century US Continental Expansion Alexis de Tocqueville's On Democracy The US in World War I The New Deal Politics and Society in the American Zone of Occupation The Sixties The Grand Coalition Graduate Seminars European Images of the United States West German Politics of the Past (Ind. Study) Holocaust Memory in the US and Germany US Culture and the Media The Vietnam War American Journalism Research Seminars (Übungen) The Americanization of the Holocaust Historical Biography The New Diplomatic History Tutorials (as teaching assistant) German Foreign Relations II ( ), German Foreign Relations III ( ) German Foreign Relations IV (since 1945)