Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

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Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (born April 9, 1965 in Dortmund ) is a German cultural scientist and has been Professor of the History of the European-Transatlantic Cultural Area at the University of Augsburg since October 2016 .

Life

From September 2013 to September 2016 she was an adjunct professor for American history and culture at the America Institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU). She studied at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster as well as at the University of California, Davis . At LMU she received her Magister Artium in 1992 and the Dr. phil. in 1997 in North American Cultural History. In 2006 she completed her habilitation at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, also at LMU. Her research interests include Afro-American history, transatlantic relations as well as US religious history and gender studies . Until September 2016 she was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington in the United States. She lives in Munich with her husband and three daughters.

Fonts

Monographs

  • From Protest to Politics: Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement and in the United States Congress. Frankfurt a. M .: Campus, 1998. ISBN 978-3-593-36114-7
  • Opponents: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer, 2000, (6) 2010. ISBN 978-3-596-14662-8
  • Christian Science in the Land of Luther: The Development of an American Religious Community in German Contexts. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2009. ISBN 978-3-515-09380-4
  • Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.
  • Malcolm X: The black revolutionary. Munich: CH Beck, 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-67537-9

Anthologies

  • Europe and America: Cultures in Translation. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hünemörder and Meike Zwingenberger Eds. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8253-5258-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/philhist/professuren/geschichte/geschichte-des-europaisch-transatlantischen-kulturraums/team/britta-waldschmidt-nelson/
  2. ↑ German Historical Institute Washington ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 131 kB)
  3. ^ Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, America Institute
  4. ^ German Historical Institute Washington
personal data
SURNAME Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund