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I. Education
UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, Cologne/Germany
Ph.D. in American and Modern History, May 1997
OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH/USA
M.A. in History, May 1993
M.S.S. in Social Sciences and International Relations, May 1993
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City, IA/USA
M.A. in History, May 1990
UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG, Freiburg/Germany
Zwischenprüfung in History, June 1988
Zwischenprüfung in German Language and Literature, June 1988
II. Current Position
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, London, Ontario/Canada
Associate Professor of History, July 1 st , 2007 -
III. Academic Experience
GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Research Faculty Fellow (Tenure: September 2006 – June 2007)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT, Erfurt/Germany
Assistant Professor of North American History, Spring 1999-2006
KEELE UNIVERSITY, Staffordshire/UK
Visiting European Fellow, David Bruce Centre for American Studies, December 2005
THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY, Kamloops/British Columbia, Canada
Visiting Professor of International History, Department of History, summer 2003
GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE, Washington, D.C./USA
Research Fellow, July-October, 2002
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C./USA
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of History, October 2001-April 2002
UNIVERSITY OF BONN, Bonn/Germany
Lecturer of American History and Foreign Relations, Fall 1997-1999

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FRIEDRICH-EBERT-FOUNDATION, Bonn/Germany
Lecturer of American Studies and International Relations, Fall 1996-2002
BUNDESZENTRALE FÜR POLITISCHE BILDUNG, Bonn/Germany
Lecturer and Author, December 1997-1999
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY INSTITUTE, Athens, OH/USA
Research Assistant to University Partnership Ohio University – University of Leipzig,
summer 1993
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES AT MARYLAND, College Park,
MD/USA
Research Associate and Visiting Scholar, 1991
NUCLEAR HISTORY PROGRAM, THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park,
MD/USA
Research Assistant and Visiting Scholar, 1991
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City, IA/USA
Research Assistant, 1988-1990
U.S. SENATE, Washington, D.C./USA
Research Assistant and Foreign Policy Intern with U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, summer 1989
IV. Fellowships
GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Bonn/Germany
Research Fellowship (Tenure: September 2006 until June 2007)
DAVID BRUCE CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES, Keele University, Staffordshire/UK
Visiting European Fellowship of American Studies, December 2005
GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE, Washington, D.C./USA
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, July-October 2002
BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI/USA
Mark C. Stevens Research Fellowship, March 2002
FULBRIGHT COMMISSION
Fulbright American Studies Fellowship October 2001-April 2002
JOHN F. KENNEDY INSTITUTE, Free University of Berlin
John F. Kennedy Institute Research Grant, August 2000
GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES
German Marshall Fund Research and Travel Grant, June 1996

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GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES
German Marshall Fund of the United States Dissertation Fellowship, February-Sept. 1994
HARRY S. TRUMAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, Independence, MO/USA
Harry S. Truman Foundation Research Grant, June-July 1994
FRIEDRICH-EBERT-FOUNDATION, Bonn/Germany
Friedrich-Ebert-Dissertation Fellowship, October 1993-September 1996
OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH/USA
Ohio University Tuition Scholarship, August 1991-May 1993
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY INSTITUTE, Ohio University, Athens, OH/USA
MacArthur Fellowship, August 1991-May 1993
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES, Univ. of Maryland, College Park,
MD/USA
Nuclear History Program Research Fellowship, February-August 1991
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Iowa City, IA/USA
University of Iowa Tuition Scholarship, September 1988-May 1990
FRIEDRICH-EBERT-FOUNDATION, Bonn/Germany
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Fellowship, July 1987-May 1990
V. Administrative Experience
COMMISSION OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, University of Erfurt
Representative of Assistant Professors, 1999-2005
FACULTY COUNCIL OF THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, University of Erfurt
Representative of Assistant Professors, 2000-2001
WORKING GROUP ON TEACHING EXCELLENCE, University of Erfurt
Representative of Assistant Professors, 1999-
WORKING GROUP ‘JUNIOR FACULTY’, University of Erfurt
Founding Member and Coordinator, 1999-2001
UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR STUDENT/POSTDOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIPS
Representative of Assistant Professors, 1999-2004
EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM INTERNSHIPS, University of Erfurt
Initiator and Member of Selection Committee for the George C. Marshall Awards, 1999-2003

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EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM ESSAY COMPETION, University of Erfurt
Initiator and Chair of Selection Committee, 2004-2005
FULBRIGHT COMMISSION
Fulbright Commission Representative and Liaison Professor at the University of Erfurt, 2002-
2006
FULBRIGHT COMMISSION
National Selection Committee, German-American Fulbright Commission, Berlin, 2005-
SEARCH COMMITTEE, Department of History, University of Erfurt
Member Search Committee for the Chair of North American History, 2004-2005
VI. Professional Membership
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
German Association of American Studies
European Association of American Studies
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Arbeitskreis Deutsche Englandforschung
VII. Research and Teaching
North American International, Military, Cultural, Indigenous, and Environmental History
History of Modern International Relations
History of Globalization
History of Transatlantic Relations
Imperialism and Colonialism
War and Society
VIII. Current Research Projects
The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Search for Imperial Identity, 1845-1945
‘Kill and Burn’: A Cultural History of the Philippine-American War, 1899-1913
IX. Languages
German (native)
English (near native competency)
French (good)
Spanish (reading and comprehension good)
Latin

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X. Publications
1. Books
Emotions and American History, ed. with Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Oxford/New York: Berghahn
Press, forthcoming 2007).
Kolonialkriege. Militärische Gewalt im Zeichen des Imperialismus, ed. with Thoralf Klein
(Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006).
Culture and International History, ed. with Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Oxford/New York:
Berghahn Press, 2003).
Archives in Germany: An Introductory Guide to Institutions and Sources, with the assistance of
Annette M. Marciel (Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute Reference Guide,
2001).
Kulturtransfer und Kalter Krieg. Westeuropa als Bühne und Akteur im Amerikanisierungsprozeß,
ed. with Ursula Lehmkuhl and Stefanie Schneider (Erfurt: Erfurter Beiträge zur
Nordamerikanischen Geschichte, 2001).
Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung und die ideelle Westbindung
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1955 (Trier: WVT-Verlag, 2000).
2. Articles and Book Chapters
“’… nobody was seriously damaged’. Die U.S. Armee und der Einsatz von Folter im
philippinisch-amerikanischen Krieg, 1899-1902”, in: Jürgen Martschukat, Susanne
Krasmann (eds.), Violence, Order, and the State (forthcoming).
“The American Way of Empire. Kaleidoscopic Images of Global Power, 1780 to the Present”,
in: Philippe Burrin, Jürgen Osterhammel (eds.), Empire in Modern Times (Oxford/London:
Blackwell, forthcoming).
“The United States Empire, 1800-1914” Main Essay in: Carl C. Hodge (ed.), The Age of
Imperialism, 1800-1914. An Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing,
forthcoming).
“The United States and Empire”, in: Robert Aldrich (ed.), Empires in the Early Modern and
Modern World (London: Thames and Hudson, forthcoming).
“’Marked Severities’: The Debate over Torture during America’s Conquest of the Philippines,
1899-1902”, in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 51:4 (2006), 475-498.
„Colonization through Education: A Comparative Exploration of Ideologies, Practices, and
Cultural Memories of ‘Aboriginal Schools’ in the United States and Canada”, in: Zeitschrift
für Kanada-Studien 26:2 (2006), 97-117.

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„‚Niederbrennen, plündern und töten sollt ihr...‘ Der Kolonialkrieg der USA auf den
Philippinen,1899-1913“, in: Thoralf Klein, Frank Schumacher (eds.), Kolonialkriege.
Militärische Gewalt im Zeichen des Imperialismus. (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006), 109-
144.
“Einleitung”, in: Thoralf Klein, Frank Schumacher (eds.), Kolonialkriege. Militärische Gewalt im
Zeichen des Imperialismus. (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2006), 6-13.
“Lessons of Empire: the United States, the Quest for Colonial Expertise, and the British
Example, 1898-1917”, in: Ursula Lehmkuhl, Gustav Schmidt (eds.), From Enmity to
Friendship. Anglo-American Relations in the 19 th and 20 th Century (Augsburg: Wißner-Verlag,
2005), 71-98.
“Britain and the United States: Main Essay”, in: William Kaufman, Heidi Slettedahl
MacPherson (eds.), Britain and the Americas: Culture Politics and History: A Multidisciplinary
Encyclopedia Vol. I (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 45-56.
„From Occupation to Alliance: German-American Relations, 1949-1955“, in: Detlef Junker
(ed.), The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War. A Handbook, Vol. I
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 90-96.
„On the Frontier of Civilization. Deliberations of Exceptionalism and Environmental
Determinism in the Creation of America’s Tropical Empire, 1890-1910“, in: Sylvia Hilton,
Cornelis A. van Minnen (eds.), Frontiers and Boundaries in U.S. History (Amsterdam: VU
University Press, 2004), 127-141.
„Creating Imperial Urban Spaces: Baguio and the American Empire in the Philippines, 1898-
1920“, in: Anke Ortlepp, Christopher Ribbat (ed.), Taking Up Space: New Approaches to
American History (Trier: WVT, 2004), 59-75.
„‚Under the Weather‘: Climatic Anxiety, Environmental Determinism, and the Creation of
the American Empire – A Preliminary Exploration“, in: Ursula Lehmkuhl, Stefanie
Schneider (eds.), Environmental History (Erfurt: Erfurter Beiträge zur Nordamerikanischen
Geschichte 4, 2002), 25-40.
„The American Way of Empire: National Tradition and Transatlantic Adaptation in
America’s Search for Imperial Identity, 1898-1910“, in: Bulletin of the German Historical
Institute 31 (Fall 2002), 35-50.
„‘Atomkraft für den Frieden‘: ein amerikanischer Beitrag zur emotionalen Kontrolle
nuklearer Ängste“, in: SOWI-Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen 3/2001, 63-71.
„Vom Besetzten zum Verbündeten: deutsch-amerikanische Beziehungen, 1949-1955“, in:
Detlef Junker (ed.), Deutschland und die USA im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges, 1945-1968. Ein
Handbuch (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 2001), 150-159.

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„Europäischer Amerikadiskurs zwischen kultureller und ökonomischer Amerikanisierungsangst
– Ein Kommentar“, in: Ursula Lehmkuhl/Stefanie Schneider/Frank Schumacher
(eds.), Kulturtransfer & Kalter Krieg: Westeuropa als Bühne und Akteur im
Amerikanisierungsprozeß (Erfurt: Erfurter Beiträge zur Nordamerikanischen Geschichte
Vol. 3, 2001), 51-62.
„Propaganda, Ideology, and Alliance Management: the United States and West Germany,
1949-1955“, in: Frank Ninkovich, Liping Bu (eds.), The Cultural Turn: Essays in the History
of U.S. Foreign Relations (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2002), 29-51.
„Die ambitionierte Lady Helen Taft, 1861-1943“, in: Christof Mauch, Philipp Gassert (eds.),
Mrs.President. Von Martha Washington bis Hillary Clinton (Stuttgart: Deutsche
Verlagsanstalt, 2000), 101-111.
„The Symbolic Confrontation: Visual Power and American Opinion Management in West
Germany, 1949-1955“, in: Marie Jeanne Rossignol, Barbara Karsky (eds.), Cahiers Charles V
(Paris, 2000), 125-148.
„Democratization and Hegemonic Control: American Propaganda and the West German
Public’s Foreign Policy Orientation, 1949-1955“, in: Knud Krakau (ed.), The American
Nation – National Identity – Nationalism (Münster, 1997), 285-315.
3. Encyclopedia Entries
“The United States Empire, 1800-1914” Main Essay in: Carl C. Hodge (ed.), The Age of
Imperialism, 1800-1914. An Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing,
forthcoming).
“The U.S. Empire, 1800-1914”; “John Quincy Adams”; “Thomas Paine”; “Thomas Jefferson”;
“Elihu Root”; “William Howard Taft”; “William McKinley”; “Cuba”; “Hawaii”;
“Philippine-American War”; “Puerto Rico”, in: Carl C. Hodge (ed.), The Age of Imperialism,
1800-1914. An Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, forthcoming).
“West Germany in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1949-1955”, in: Thomas Adam (ed.), Germany and the
Americas. Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Vol. I (Santa
Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 362-367.
“Britain and the United States: Introductory Essay”, in: William Kaufman, Heidi Slettedahl
MacPherson (eds.), Britain and the Americas: Culture Politics and History: A Multidisciplinary
Encyclopedia Vol. I (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 45-56.
“Anglo-Saxonism”; “Boer War”; “British Empire“, in: William Kaufman, Heidi Slettedahl
MacPherson (eds.), Britain and the Americas: Culture Politics and History: A Multidisciplinary
Encyclopedia Vol. I (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005), 90-92; 156-158; 176-178.

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„Emilio Aguinaldo“; „William Jennings Bryan“; „Thomas Jefferson“; „William McKinley“,
in: Melvin E. Page (ed.), Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political
Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2003), Vol. I, 8-9; 82-83; 300-301; 376-377.
„Theodore Roosevelt”; “Social Darwinism”; “Herbert Spencer”, in: Melvin E. Page (ed.),
Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-
Clio, 2003), Vol. II, 505; 539-540; 557.
„Hiroshima“; „Nagasaki“; „Bikini Atoll Tests“, in: Walter J. Boyne (ed.), Air Warfare: An
International Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2002), 308; 441; 82-83.
„Sand Creek Massacre (1864)”; “North American Indian Wars“, in: Stanley Sandler (ed.),
Ground Warfare: An International Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2002).
„American Indian Wars“; „Philippine Insurrection“, in: Spencer Tucker (ed.), Encyclopedia of
American Military History (New York: Facts on File, 2002), Vol. I, 34-35; Vol. II, 675-676.
„Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904)”; “Wounded Knee“, in: Junius P.
Rodriguez (ed.), The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia (Santa
Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002), 202-204; 355-357.
„The United States and West Germany, 1945-1955“, in: Bernard Cook (ed.), Europe Since 1945:
An Encyclopedia (New York, Garland, 2001), 465-466.
„Immigration and Immigrants: Germany“, in: Paul Finkelmann (ed.), Encyclopedia of the
United States in the 19 th Century, Vol II (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), 77-81.
„Slavery: Indian Slaveholding“, in: Paul Finkelmann (ed.), Encyclopedia of the United States in
the 19 th Century, Vol III (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), 151-153.
4. Book Reviews
Annotierte Bibliographie 1999, General Author of 150 book reviews in the field of international
relations/area studies (Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1999).
Annotierte Bibliographie 1998, General Author of 150 book reviews in the field of international
relations/area studies (Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1998).
More than forty book reviews in: American Nineteenth Century History, Journal of Intelligence
History, History, Journal of American Studies, Neue Politische Literatur, Das Parlament,
Amerikastudien/American Studies, Jahrbuch der Ranke-Gesellschaft, H-Diplo, H-Soz-u-Kult, Die
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Books reviewed 2006/2007:
ALLERFELDT, Kristofer, Beyond the Huddled Masses. American Immigration and the Treaty of
Versailles (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006), in: History. The Journal of the Historical Association.
CZAJA, Marek, Die USA und ihr Aufstieg zur Weltmacht um die Jahrhundertwende: Die
Amerikarezeption der Parteien im Kaiserreich (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006), in:
Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften.
FERMIN, José D., 1904 World’s Fair: The Filipino Experience (Honolulu: The University of
Hawaii Press, 2005), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
GO, Julian & Anne L. Foster (eds.), The American Colonial State in the Philippines. Global
Perspectives (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 26.04.2006;
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2006-2-061.
HALILI, Servando D., Jr., Iconography of the New Empire. Race and Gender Images and the
American Colonization of the Philippines (Diliman: The University of the Philippines Press,
2006), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
HORTEN, Gerd, Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
IGNACIO, Abe et.al., The Forbidden Book. The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons
(San Francisco: T’Boli Publishing, 2004), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
KRAMER, Paul A., The Blood of Government. Race, Empire, the United States, and the
Philippines (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), in:
Amerikastudien/Americn Studies.
LOCKHART, Charles, The Roots of American Exceptionalism. Institutions, Culture, and Policies
(New York: Palgrave, 2003), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
LOVE, Eric T., Race over Empire: Racism & U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2004), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
MAIER, Charles S., Among Empires. American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), in: H-Soz-u-Kult.
MARKOVITS, Andrei S., Uncouth Nation. Why Europe Dislikes America (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2007), in: H-Soz-u-Kult.
OSTLER, Jeffrey, The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
STOLER, Ann Laura (ed.), Haunted by Empire. Geographies of Intimacy in North American
History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.

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WERTH, Karsten, Ersatzkrieg im Weltraum. Das US-Raumfahrtprogramm in der Öffentlichkeit der
1960er Jahre (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2006), in: Amerikastudien/American Studies.
5. Miscellaneous Writings
“’Heulende Wildnis’: Wie Amerikas Kolonialkrieg auf den Philippinen, 1899 bis 1902 in
einen Alptraum mündete”, in: Die Zeit 27 (June 2002), Historische Zeitläufe.
Zukunft der Industriegesellschaft, with Elmar Römpczyk (Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1994).
6. Work in Progress
The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Search for Imperial Identity, 1845-1945
Book project, manuscript completion expected fall/winter 2008.
Historiography and the Colonial ‘Other’. International Perspectives in the Early 20 th Century, ed.
with Claudia Bruns. Special Edition of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und
vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung (Leipzig: forthcoming)
„’Kin in Sin’? The United States, Anglo-American Cultural Transfer, and the Challenges of
Colonial Empire”, under review by The Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
“Das Imperium als historischer Auftrag? Geschichts-Bilder auf der Weltausstellung von St.
Louis, 1904“(journal article).
XI. Conference Organization
2006
„Das Bild der ‚eigenen’ Geschichte im Spiegel des kolonialen ‚Anderen’: Internationale
Perspektiven“ (with Jürgen Martschukat), conference at the Internationales
Begegnungszentrum, University of Erfurt, supported by grants from the University of
Erfurt, November 2006 Conference Report at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=1453
2003
“Kolonialkriege. Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte militärischer Gewalt
im Zeichen des Imperialismus”, (with Thoralf Klein), international conference at the
Konferenzzentrum Kleine Synagoge, Erfurt, supported by grants from the Hamburger
Institut für Sozialforschung and the Universität Erfurt, January 2003. Conference Report
at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=181
2002
„New Approaches to Culture and International History“, (with Jessica Gienow-Hecht),
international conference at the Centre for US-Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-
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Martin-Luther-Universität and the Embassy of the United States, December 2002.
Conference Report at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=161
2001
“Emotions and American History“, (with Jessica Gienow-Hecht), 26. Annual Conference
of the Historians of the German Association of American Studies, Akademie für
politische Bildung, Tutzing, supported by grants from the Free State of Bavaria, the
German Association of American Studies and the Embassy of the United States,
February 2001. Conference Report at: http://science.orf.at/science/wagnleitner/5926
2000
„Amerikanisierung im Nachkriegs-Europa“, (with Ursula Lehmkuhl), international
symposium, Old Council Hall of the City of Erfurt, supported by grants from the
Universität Erfurt, the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, the German-American Club
Erfurt, June 2000.
1999
Culture and International Relations“, (with Jessica Gienow-Hecht), international
conference at the Center for US-Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg,
supported by grants from the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft and the
United States Information Service, December 1999.
XII. Conference Presentations and Public Lectures
2007
„The Experience of American Soldiers during the Philippine War“, Conference “The
Experience of War in the United States”, Heinrich-Fabri-Institute, University of
Tübingen, June 2007.
“The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Search for Imperial Identities”,
Conference “, Conference “Colonialism: Concepts and Images in the Writing of History”,
Faculty of Humanities, University of Erfurt, May 2007.
“The United States, the international community, and Iraq”, 24 th Symposium of the US-
Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg, May 2007.
“The anti-colonial Republic as Empire: the United States in the early 20 th Century”,
Conference “Comparative History of Colonialism”, Hamburger Institut für
Sozialforschung, May 2007.
“’Nobody was seriously damaged’. Die U.S.-Armee und der Einsatz von Folter im
philippinisch-amerikanischen Krieg, 1899-1902”, Research Symposium, John-F.-
Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, February 2007.

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„New Approaches to Writing the History of U.S. Foreign Relations“, Department of
History and Centre for American Studies, The University of Western Ontario, London,
ON/Canada, January 2007.
2006
“Das Imperium als historischer Auftrag? Geschichts-Bilder auf der Weltausstellung von
St. Louis, 1904, Conference “Das Bild der ‘eigenen’ Geschichte im Spiegel des kolonialen
‘Anderen’: Internationale Perspektiven”, University of Erfurt, November 2006
“North America, Europe, and the Challenges of Globalization”, 23 rd Symposium of the
US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg, June
2006
“It’s a Small World: Americanization, Globalization, and Westernization”, 23 rd
Symposium of the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte
Würzburg, June 2006
“Marked Severities: The Debate over the Use of Torture during America’s Conquest of
the Philippines, 1899-1913”, Conference “Violence, Order, and the State”, University of
Hamburg, March 2006
„Ideologies, Practices, and Memories of the Boarding/Residential School Experience in
the United States and Canada”, 27 th Annual Conference of the Society for Canada-
Studies, Grainau, February 2006
„Colonization through Education: A Comparative Analysis of Ideologies, Practices, and
Memories of ‘Indian School’ in North America”, 30 th Annual Conference of the
Historians of the German Association of American Studies, Akademie für politische
Bildung, Tutzing, February 2006
“Broadening the Focus: New Approaches to International History”, Faculty of Arts,
Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC/Canada, January 2006
2005
“Lessons of Empire: the United States, the Quest for Colonial Expertise, and the British
Example, 1898-1917”, David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University/UK,
December 2005
“America’s Quest for Empire, 1860-1920”, Universität Erfurt, June 2005
“Civil Liberties under Attack? Reconsiderations of the U.S. Patriot Act”, 22 nd Symposium
of the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg,
May 2005
“The United States, the North Korean Challenge, and the United Nations”, Symposium
of the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg,
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2004
“Challenges of Empire: Amerikas Kolonialkrieg auf den Philippinen”, Symposium of the
German Research Council’s Working Group Kriegstypen und Kriegserfahrungen,
Universität Tübingen, November 2004
“The United States and the European Union: Partners in Conflict?”, “Die Bush-Doktrin”,
“Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Amerika”, 21 st Symposium of the US-Congress-
Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg, June 2004
“Learning from the Best? The American Appropriation of British Colonial Methods and
the Emerging ‘Special Relationship’ at the turn-of-the-century”, Annual Conference
Arbeitskreis Deutsche Englandforschung (ADEF), Mühlheim/Ruhr, May 2004
„The American Way of Empire: Kaleidoscopic Images of Global Power, 1780 to the
Present”, American Studies Seminar, Clare College, University of Cambridge/UK,
February 2004
“Kulturtransfer und Empire in der internationalen Geschichte der USA”, Ringvorlesung
Writing the History of Foreign Relations, Universität Köln, January 2004
2003
„The United States, the European Union, and Canada since September 11, 2001:
Challenges and Opportunities“, Rotary Club British Columbia und University College of
the Cariboo, Kamloops/Canada, July 2003
„Bruch mit Amerika?“, „Europa, Amerika und der Irakkrieg“, „Die neue
sicherheitspolitische Doktrin der USA“, 20th Symposium of the US-Congress-Bundestag
Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg, June 2003
„On the Frontiers of Civilization: Climatic Anxiety, Environmental Determinism and
America’s Tropical Frontier in the Philippines, 1898-1910“, 6 th Middelburg Conference of
European Historians of the United States: Frontiers and Boundaries in US-History,
Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg/Netherlands, April 2003
„The Ultimate Empire? America’s Evolution as a World Power“, Conference Empires in
Modern History, Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales,
Geneva/Switzerland, March 2003
„Small World: Visions of Globalization at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904“, 28 th
Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association of American Studies,
Haus Maria Rosenberg, Waldfischbach-Burgalben, February 2003
„’Niederbrennen, Plündern und Töten sollt Ihr’. Der Kolonialkrieg der USA auf den
Philippinen, 1899-1913“, Conference Kolonialkriege. Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden
Kulturgeschichte militärischer Gewalt im Zeichen des Imperialismus, Universität Erfurt,
January 2003

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„Die USA und der philippinisch-amerikanische Krieg, 1899-1913“, Seminar für
Zeitgeschichte, Universität Tübingen, January 2003
2002
„Culture and the New International History“, Center for US-Studies, Martin-Luther-
Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, December 2002
„Neue Forschungsansätze zur Geschichte des amerikanischen Kolonialimperiums“,
German Historical Institute, Washington DC/USA, August 2002
“Imperial Atlantic Crossings: die USA und Großbritannien, 1880-1920”, Symposium
Atlantische Kulturgeschichte, Universität Erfurt, June 2002
„Amerikanisierung und Globalisierung“, „Geschichte der transatlantischen
Beziehungen“, „Wirtschafts- und Sozialsystem der USA“, 19th Symposium of the US-
Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg, May 2002
“Nothing of a Partisan or Controversial Character: National Geographic Magazine and the
Popularization of the American Empire, 1898-1920, Conference Modelling American
Culture: American Magazines in the Twentieth Century, Roosevelt Study Center,
Middelburg/Netherlands, April 2002.
“The Philippines and the American Way of Empire, 1898-1920”, Bentley Historical
Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor/USA, March 2002
“The Creation of Imperial Spaces. Daniel H. Burnham, William E. Parsons and American
Colonial Urban Planning in the Philippines, 1903-1910”, 26 th Annual Conference of the
Historians of the German Association of American Studies, Akademie für politische
Bildung, Tutzing, February 2002
2001
„The American Way of Empire: the United States and the Quest for Imperial Identity”,
Center for Historical Analysis, University of Maryland, College Park/USA, December
2001
„Kalter Krieg und Propaganda: die USA, der Kampf um die Weltmeinung und die
ideelle Westbindung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1955“, Nordamerika-
Kolloquium, John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, June 2001
“Die Bush-Administration und das europäisch-amerikanische Verhältnis”, „Geschichte
der Todesstrafe in den USA“, „Religion und Alltagswirklichkeit“, 18th Symposium of
the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg,
June 2001
„Kill the Indian and Save the Man: Indianerschulen und Assimilation im 19.
Jahrhundert”, Public Lecture Universitätsgesellschaft Erfurt, Konferenzzentrum Kleine
Synagoge Erfurt, May 2001

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2000
“American Opinion Management in Cold War West Germany”, Conference Europe and
America in the Cold War, Croft Institute of International Studies, The University of
Mississippi, Oxford/USA, September 2000
„Cold War Propaganda and Alliance Management: the United States and West Germany
in the 1950s“, Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations, Toronto/Canada, June 2000
„Strategies and Visions for a New Wold Order in U.S. Foreign Policy”, Commentary,
Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies, Dresden, June 2000
„Europäischer Amerikadiskurs zwischen kultureller und ökonomischer
Amerikanisierungsangst – Ein Kommentar“, Symposium Amerikanisierung im
Nachkriegs-Europa, June 2000
„Transnationale Beziehungen und Personenaustauschprogramme: Deutschland und die
USA“, Public Lecture, Staatskanzlei des Freistaats Thüringen und Carl-Duisberg-
Gesellschaft, Erfurt, June 2000
„Außenpolitik der USA“, „Todesstrafe in den USA“, „Sozialsystem und Armut in den
USA“, 17th Symposium of the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie
Frankenwarte Würzburg, June 2000
„Was war der Kalte Krieg und ist er wirklich vorbei?“, Public Lecture Hessische Stiftung
für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung und Atlantische Akademie, Pfalz-Akademie,
Lambrecht, April 2000
“Kill the Indian and Save the Man: 19th Century Indian Schools and the Quest for
Assimilation”, 25 th Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association of
American Studies, Akademie für politische Bildung, Tutzing, February 2000
1999
“Approaches to the Study of Culture and International Relations”, Conference Culture
and International History, Center for US-Studies, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-
Wittenberg, December 1999
„NSC-68 and the Cult of National Security“, Annual Conference of the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Princeton University, Princeton/USA, June
1999
„The Symbolic Confrontation: Visual Power and American Opinion Management in
West Germany, 1945-1955”, Conference Cultural History and International Relations
(CHIR), Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot, Paris/France, June 1999
„Quo Vadis Amerika? Eine Weltmacht an der Schwelle zum neuen Jahrtausend“, Public
Lecture Series for the Alfred-Nau-Akademie, Bergneustadt, May 1999

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„Amerikanisierung“, „Transatlantische Beziehungen“, „Außenpolitik der USA“,
„Todesstrafe in den USA“, 16th Symposium of the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange
Program, Akademie Frankenwarte Würzburg, May 1999
„Religion und amerikanische Alltagswirklichkeit“ und „Der amerikanische Traum: Ideal
und Wirklichkeit im Zeichen einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft“, Public Lectures for the
Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Akademie Frankenwarte,
Würzburg, April 1999
„Kulturbruch mit Amerika?“, Public Lecture Armed Forces College and Friedrich-Ebert-
Stiftung, Alfred-Nau-Akademie, Bergneustadt, March 1999
„Die Neuordnung Europas und das Problem gemeinsamer Sicherheit“, Public Lecture
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Ost-West-Kolleg, Brühl, March 1999
“The Cult of National Security: NSC-68 and the Ideology of America’s Cold War Foreign
Relations”, 24 th Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association of
American Studies, Akademie für politische Bildung, Tutzing, February 1999
1998
„Europa und Amerika nach den Wahlen“, Public Lecture, Alfred-Nau-Akademie,
Bergneustadt, December 1998
„Amerikanisierung als Traum und Alptraum“, Public Lecture, Moltke-Gymnasium,
Gummersbach, November 1998
„Thesen zur Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen“, Public Lecture Congress of
German Trade Unions, Alfred-Nau-Akademie, Bergneustadt, October 1998
„Geschichte der transatlantischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert“, Public Lecture,
Atlantische Akademie Rheinland Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, September 1998
„Grundsätzliche Überlegungen zur Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der USA“, Public
Lecture for the Armed Forces General Staff College, Alfred-Nau-Akademie,
Bergneustadt, August 1998
„Perspektiven der euro-amerikanischen Beziehungen“, Public Lecture, Bundeszentrale
für politische Bildung, Ost-West-Kolleg, Brühl, August 1998
„Globalization and the Role of the United States“ and „Immigration, Ethnic Minorities
and Multiculturalism in American Society”, Seminars and Public Lecture Series, Gustav-
Heinemann-Akademie, Freudenberg, June 1998
“Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen”, 15th
Symposium of the US-Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program, Akademie Frankenwarte
Würzburg, June 1998

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„Geschichte und Politik der USA“, Seminar and Public Lecture Series Alfred-Nau-
Akademie, Bergneustadt, May 1998
„Das Missionsbewußtsein in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der USA“ and „The
American Dream – Überlegungen zum amerikanischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialsystem“,
Seminars and Public Lecture Series, Carl-Duisberg Gesellschaft, Akademie
Frankenwarte, Würzburg, May 1998
„Weltordnungsmacht USA-Regionalmacht Europa? Perspektiven des euroamerikanischen
Verhältnisses“, Public Lecture Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung,
Ost-West-Kolleg, Brühl, May 1998
1997
“Die USA: Eine Einführung in Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur”, Seminar and
Public Lecture Series, Alfred-Nau-Akademie, Bergneustadt, November 1997
“The Truman-Administration and the Campaign of Truth”, Robert Schuman Centre,
European University Institute, Florence/Italy, May 1997
“Propaganda and the Cold War: the United States, the Struggle for World Opinion, and
the German Question, 1945-1955”, Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales,
Geneva/Switzerland, March 1997
1996
„Turning Points in the History of the United States, 1600 to the Present“, Seminar and
Public Lecture Series, Gustav-Heinemann-Akademie, Freudenberg, October 1996
“The Ideology of Integration”, Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, University of Colorado, Boulder/USA, June 1996
„Propaganda as a Means of Symbolic Integration: the West German Case, 1945-1955“, Bi-
Annual Conference of the European Association of American Studies, Warsaw/Poland,
March 1996
„Amerikas Propaganda und die Integration der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“,
Kolloquium zur internationalen Geschichte, Historisches Seminar, Universität Köln,
February 1996
„Democratization and Hegemonic Control: American Propaganda and the Struggle for
the Westernization of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1955”, 21 st Annual
Conference of the Historians of the German Association of American Studies, Akademie
für politische Bildung, Tutzing, February 1996
1991
„Curtis LeMay and the Evolution of Nuclear Thought in America“, Conference Nuclear
Weapons and Diplomacy, Ohio University and Contemporary History Institute,
September 1991

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XIII Teaching
The University of Erfurt (1999-2006)
Graduate Seminars:
The History of American Foreign Relations, 1898 to the Present
The History of American Foreign Relations, 1780-1917
The American Way of War: the United States and the Experience of Military Conflict,
1770 to the Present
Creating Imperial Identities: American Society and the Culture of Empire, 1865-1917
Spreading the American Dream at Home and Abroad: the History of the United
States, 1920-1945
Empire by Integration: U.S. Foreign Relations and the Cold War
The Age of Fear: American Culture and Society in the Era of the Cold War
The Struggle for the Soul of Faust: German-American Relations, 1945-1990
European-American Relations in the 20 th Century
The United States and Latin America. Conflict and Cooperation in the Western
Hemisphere, 1815 to the Present
Globalization, Westernization, Americanization
Rethinking American History in a Global Age
Global America: New Approaches to the Study of U.S. Foreign Relations
Undergraduate Seminars:
U.S. and European Imperialism in Comparative Perspective, 1800-1914
Creating Imperial Identities: American Society and the Culture of Empire, 1865-1917
Spreading the American Dream at Home and Abroad: the History of the United
States, 1920-1945
The Age of Fear: American Culture and Society in the Era of the Cold War
The Struggle for the Soul of Faust: German-American Relations, 1945-1990
American Expansion and the Atlantic World
Globalization, Westernization, Americanization
History Made in Hollywood: Visual Representations of American History
Rethinking American History in a Global Age
Embattled Memories: Public Controversy over Monuments, Museums, and
Exhibitions in American History, 1865 to the Present
First Nations and Native Americans in North American History
The Symbolic Confrontation: American Cold War Culture, 1945-1990
The American and Canadian West: Studies in Environment, Society and Culture
Migration in Modern History, 1600 to the Present
The University of Bonn (1997-1999)
Graduate Seminars:
The Age of Fear: American Culture and Society in the Era of the Cold War
The Struggle for the Soul of Faust: German-American Relations, 1945-1990
First Nations and Native Americans in North American History
The Symbolic Confrontation: American Cold War Culture, 1945-1990

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The American and Canadian West: Studies in Environment, Society and Culture
Undergraduate Seminars:
The History of American Foreign Relations, 1898 to the Present
The History of American Foreign Relations, 1780-1917
The American Way of War: the United States and the Experience of Military Conflict,
1770 to the Present
Thompson Rivers University (2003)
Graduate Seminars
Conflict and Cooperation in the Atlantic World: A History of Transatlantic Relations,
1890 to the Present.