German Studies Association

The German Studies Association (GSA) is an interdisciplinary association of scholars that - with a cultural and scientific focus - deals with German and historical topics with references to Germany , Austria and Switzerland .

history

Thanks to the commitment of the American Association of Teachers of German , an interdisciplinary approach was pursued in the US with German Studies . The association was finally founded in 1976 by the historian Gerald R. Kleinfeld at Arizona State University as the Western Association for German Studies (WAGS) and renamed the German Studies Association in 1984 after the all-American expansion at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . The GSA annually organizes conferences in the USA, which have become an important forum for exchange between Germany and the United States . Today the association consists primarily of historians and German scholars , but also political scientists , and has a total of around 1,500 members.

Since 1978 it has had an official organ with the scientific journal German Studies Review (GerSR), published by the Johns Hopkins University Press . In addition, she has been publishing a newsletter since 2006 .

The German Studies Association is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies .

Asian German Studies has been part of the conference since 2009 .

organization

The following persons on the Executive Board currently hold offices:

• President: Mary Lindemann ( Louisiana State University )
• Vice President: Johannes von Moltke ( Dartmouth College )
• Treasurer: Gerald A. Fetz ( University of Montana )
• Managing Director: David E. Barclay (Kalamazoo College)

The above persons as well as the former President and the Editor of the German Studies Review form the Executive Council.

Committees

GSA has set up the following committees:

• Archives Committee
• Berlin Program Selection Committee
• Interdisciplinary Committee
• Investment Committee
• Nominating Committee
• Prize Committees:

• DAAD Book Prize Committee
• DAAD Article Prize Committee
• Graduate Student Essay Prize Committee
• Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize Committee

• Program Committee

In addition, there are two editorial boards for the magazine and the book series ( Spektrum , published by Berghahn Books ).

Grants

The GSA is a partner of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies , awards travel grants and the following prizes:

• DAAD Book Prize of GSA

• 2013: David Ciarlo for Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
• 2014: Marco Abel for The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School

• DAAD Article Prize of GSA

• 2012: Edward Dickinson for Altitude and Whiteness: Germanizing the Alps and Alpinizing the Germans, 1875-1935
• 2013: Ari Joskowicz for Heinrich Heine's Transparent Masks: Denominational Politics and the Poetics of Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Germany and France
• 2014: Kira Thurman for Black Venus, White Bayreuth: Race, Sexuality, and the Depoliticization of Wagner in Postwar West Germany

• GSA Prize for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student

• 2012: Ari Linden for Beyond Repetition: Karl Kraus's 'Absolute Satire'
• 2013: Carl Gelderloos for Simply Reproducing Reality: Brecht, Benjamin, and Renger Patzsch on Photography
• 2014: Amanda Randall for Austrian Trümmerfilm: What a Genre's Absence Reveals about National Postwar Cinema and Film Studies

• Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize

• 2011: Jeffrey Herf for Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
• 2012: Laura Jockusch for Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe / Jan Tomasz Gross and Irena Grudzinska Gross for Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

Publications

Publications from the Modern German Studies series :

• Vol. 1: David P. Conradt , Gerald R. Kleinfeld , George K. Romoser , Christian Søe (Eds.): Germany's New Politics. Parties and Issues in the 1990s . Berghahn Books, Providence u. a. 1995, ISBN 1-57181-033-1 .
• Vol. 2: Konrad H. Jarausch , Volker Grasnow (ed.): After Unity. Reconfiguring German Identities . Berghahn Books, Providence u. a. 1997, ISBN 1-57181-041-2 .
• Vol. 3: Keith Bullivant (Ed.): Beyond 1989. Re-reading German literature since 1945 . Berghahn Books, Providence u. a. 1997, ISBN 1-57181-038-2 .
• Vol. 4: Patricia Herminghouse , Magda Mueller (Ed.): Gender and Germanness. Cultural Productions of Nation . Berghahn Books, Providence u. a. 1997, ISBN 1-57181-112-5 .
• Vol. 5: David P. Conradt , Gerald R. Kleinfeld , Christian Søe (eds.): Power Shift in Germany. The 1998 Election and the End of the Kohl Era . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2000, ISBN 1-57181-200-8 .
• Vol. 6: Nancy A. Lauckner , Miriam Jokiniemi (eds.): Shedding Light on the Darkness. A Guide to Teaching the Holocaust . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2000, ISBN 1-57181-208-3 .

Publications from the Spectrum series :

• Vol. 1: Jason Philip Coy , Benjamin Marschke , David Warren Sabean (Eds.): The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered . Berghan Books, New York a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-84545-759-4 .
• Vol. 2: Kathleen Canning , Kerstin Barndt , Kristin McGuire (eds.): Weimar Publics / Weimar Subjects. Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-84545-689-4 .
• Vol. 3: David M. Luebke , Jared Poley , Daniel C. Ryan , David Warren Sabean (Eds.): Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-0-85745-375-4 .
• Vol. 4: Marc Silberman , Karen E. Till , Janet Ward (Eds.): Walls, Borders, Boundaries. Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-0-85745-504-8 .
• Vol. 5: Scott Spector , Helmut Puff , Dagmar Herzog (eds.): After The History of Sexuality. German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-0-85745-937-4 .
• Vol. 6: Mary Fulbrook , Andrew I. Port (Eds.): Becoming East German. Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-0-85745-974-9 .
• Vol. 7: Qinna Shen , Martin Rosenstock (Ed.): Beyond Alterity. German Encounters with Modern East Asia . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-360-4 .
• Vol. 8: David M. Luebke , Mary Lindemann (Ed.): Mixed Matches. Trangressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-409-0 .
• Vol. 9: Jason Coy , Benjamin Marschke , Jared Poley , Claudia Verhoeven (Eds.): Kinship, Community, and Self. Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean . Berghahn Books, New York a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-1-78238-419-9 .

Web links

• Search for "German Studies Association" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Entry of the German Studies Association on Clio-online
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Wulf Köpke: The Third Pilar of Foreign Policy. West German Cultural Policy in the United States . In: Detlef Junker (Ed.): The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990. A Handbook (= Publications of the German Historical Institute ). Volume 2: 1968–1990 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 2004, ISBN 0-521-83420-1 , p. 283.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Foreword by Peter Pabisch . In: Peter Pabisch (Ed.): Patent solution or apple of contention? 'German studies' for the international field as an alternative to German studies - examples from America . Lang, Bern a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-03910-621-X , p. 18.
4. ^ Paul Michael Lützeler : Transatlantic German Studies. Contact, transfer, dialogue . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030055-0 , p. 231.
5. ^ Heinrich C. Seeba : Intercultural German Studies in the USA . In: Alois Wierlacher , Andrea Bogner (Hrsg.): Handbuch interkulturelle Germanistik . Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-476-01955-1 , p. 661.
6. ^ Paul Michael Lützeler : Klio or Kalliope? Literature and history: exploration, analysis, interpretation (= philological studies and sources . Issue 145). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-503-03763-2 , p. 179.