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Martin Klimke Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: Private: Grabengasse 3-5 303 S. 4th Avenue 69117 Heidelberg, Germany Highland Park, NJ 08904-2626, U.S.A. Tel.: +49 6221 - 542477 Tel.: 732-777-0795 Fax: +49 6221 - 542449 Mobile: 678-860-3569 http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/vw-project http://www.maklimke.com EDUCATION University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany April 2001-present • Ph.D-Candidate in History / VW Research Fellow in a joint research project together with Rutgers University, NJ, entitled: “The Other Within Us: Collective Identities, Intercultural Relations, and Political Protest in West Germany and the U.S. During the 1960s and 1970s” (Degree expected 2004) • M.A. in English and History (completed July 2002) • Master’s thesis: “The Whole World is Watching” - The New Left as a Transatlantic Experience in 1968 University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany October 2000-April 2001 • Pursued graduate studies in English and History Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts September 1999-May 2000 • Attended advanced seminars, special topics courses and independent studies in American History and English University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany October 1997–July 1999 • Completed undergraduate studies in English and History • English and Ancient History with honors (=4.0); Medieval and Modern History: well above average • Initiated graduate coursework in Ancient History and English Bischoefliches Gymnasium Josephinum, Hildesheim, Germany August 1989-June 1996 • Completed advanced high school courses in German, History and English TEACHING EXPERIENCE Tutor, University of Heidelberg, Germany April 2002 • Introducing first year students to studying at university, specifically guiding them in the study of History Instructor, Schiller Int. University, Collegium Palatinum, Heidelberg, Germany October -December 2001 • Conducted German language classes for intermediate and advanced students Tutor, American Junior Year at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany April 2001-July 2001 • Tutored American students at the University of Heidelberg and introducing them to research methods and standards for History classes Permanent Substitute, Language Center, University of Goettingen October 2000-February 2001 • Conducted a comprehensive English Language class for learners at the novice level Teaching Assistant, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts June-August 2000 • Team-taught an English language class and an American History and Culture class Teaching Assistant, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts September 1999-May 2000 • Instructed German conversation and literature classes and provided authentic out-of-classroom cultural experiences Instructor, IGS Goettingen February 1999 • Tutored students in German, English and History classes Instructor, Inveralmond Community High School, Scotland September-October 1998 • Conducted German conversation and culture classes in conventional or private and semi-private tutorials WORK EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Language Center, University of Goettingen October 2000-March 2001 • Created teaching material for the language classroom and took part in the organization of a conference on “Second Language Teaching at University” in March 2001 Research Assistant, German Department, Amherst College, Amherst February 2000-February 2001 • Researching and analyzing primary sources for a research project on the perception of Africans and the importance of the former German colonies during the Republic of Weimar ACADEMIC GRANTS & AFFILIATIONS Grants • Alpha Delta Phi Grant, English Department, Amherst College, Amherst • Research / Thesis Grant, FU Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin • Travel Grant, Schurman Verein e.V., Heidelberg • VW Research Fellow, VW-Foundation Affiliations • American Historical Association • Organization of American Historians • The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations • German Association for American Studies • Verband Deutscher Historiker CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS • 03/07-08/2003: “’The Other Alliance’: Transatlantic Relations of the German Student Movement of the 1960s,” Presentation at the 3rd Annual Harvard Graduate Conference on International History (ConIH), "The United States from the Outside In, 1776-2000," Cambridge, Massachusetts (publication fortcoming) • “Between Berkeley and Berlin, San Francisco and Frankfurt: The Student Movements of the 1960s in Transatlantic Perspective,“ Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies, Tutzing, Germany, February 2002 / Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, New York City, April 2002 (publication forthcoming) References are available on request. .