GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE,WASHINGTON,DC THE GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE, 2003–2007: PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 EINLEITUNG 5 STAFF 9 Directors ........................................................................................................... 9 Deputy Directors ............................................................................................ 10 Administrators ................................................................................................ 11 Research Fellows ............................................................................................ 12 German History in Documents and Images Personnel .......................... 20 Research Associates ....................................................................................... 21 Administrative and Research Assistants ................................................... 23 Editors ............................................................................................................. 23 Librarians ........................................................................................................ 24 Foreign Language Assistants ...................................................................... 24 Technicians ..................................................................................................... 24 Receptionists .................................................................................................... 24 LECTURES 25 Annual Lectures ............................................................................................ 25 Hertie Lectures ................................................................................................ 27 Spring and Fall Lecture Series .................................................................... 28 Gerd Bucerius Lectures ................................................................................. 36 Edmund Spevack Memorial Lectures ........................................................ 38 Other Lectures ................................................................................................ 40 CONFERENCES,WORKSHOPS,SYMPOSIA, AND PANELS 43 International Conferences ............................................................................ 43 Workshops and Symposia ........................................................................... 49 Annual Symposia of the Friends of the GHI ........................................... 54 Panels at External Conferences .................................................................... 55 EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER CULTURAL EVENTS 57 PROJECTS 61 German History in Documents and Images ............................................. 61 German Studies Directory ............................................................................ 62 North American History in Europe Directory .......................................... 62 Competing Modernities ................................................................................ 63 SEMINARS FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS 65 Young Scholars Forums ............................................................................... 65 Medieval History Seminars ......................................................................... 66 Transatlantic Doctoral Seminars ................................................................ 66 Summer Seminars in Paleography and Archival Studies ....................... 67 Bucerius Seminars on American History and American Archives ....... 68 Mid-Atlantic German History Seminars .................................................... 69 FELLOWSHIP AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS 71 Postdoctoral Fellowships GHI Postdoctoral Fellowships ............................................................ 71 Thyssen-Heideking Fellowships .......................................................... 74 Postdoctoral-Stipendium für Nordamerikanische Geschichte ....... 75 NEH-GHI Fellowships .......................................................................... 76 GHI Fellowships in Environmental History ..................................... 77 Doctoral Fellowships GHI Doctoral Fellowships ................................................................... 77 Kade-Heideking Fellowships ............................................................... 87 Other Fellowships Breuninger Fellowships in Environmental History ......................... 88 GHI Fellowships at the Horner Library ............................................ 88 Prizes Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize ............................................................... 89 Franz Steiner Prize ................................................................................. 90 Helmut Schmidt Prize .......................................................................... 91 LIBRARY 93 ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL (WISSENSCHAFTLICHER BEIRAT) 95 BOARD OF TRUSTEES (STIFTUNGSRAT) 97 FRIENDS OF THE GHI (FGHI) 99 GHI PUBLICATIONS 101 Publications of the German Historical Institute (Cambridge University Press) ......................................................................................... 101 GHI Studies in German History (Berghahn Books) .............................. 103 Transatlantische Historische Studien (Franz Steiner Verlag) ............. 104 Bulletin of the German Historical Institute and Bulletin Supplements ................................................................................... 106 Reference Guides ........................................................................................ 106 GHI Publications in International Environmental History .................. 107 Annual Lecture Series ................................................................................ 108 Occasional Papers ....................................................................................... 108 Conference Papers on the Web ................................................................ 110 Additional Publications Supported by the GHI ..................................... 110 APPENDIX 112 INDEX 113 INTRODUCTION “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” a popular saying goes. The German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, has certainly experienced a great deal of change since its founding in November 1987. Staff have come and gone. Research projects have been brought to completion. New programs have been continually added to the institute’s roster of activities. One thing that has not changed is its basic mission: to support research and foster transatlantic scholarly dialogue. This sum- mary of programs and activities stands as a record both of the continuous change in the GHI’s day-to-day work in the years 2003–2007 and of its ongoing commitment to serving the international community of histori- ans.1 Most of the period covered by this summary fell within Christof Mauch’s tenure as director of the GHI. One of the focal points of the GHI’s research program under Prof. Mauch was environmental history. The GHI’s conferences, workshops, and research projects in environmen- tal history were usually international in scope and comparative in ap- proach, thus building on the GHI’s long engagement in comparative and transatlantic history. Some of the projects took the GHI into entirely new territory: the conference “Animals in History” that we organized in col- laboration with the University of Cologne is perhaps the most conspicu- ous example. Other projects, notably our conference “The Environmental History of the Cold War,” opened new perspectives on topics of long- standing interest to the GHI. Environmental history, I should stress, was only one of several areas of research concentration during the five years under review here. The fields of German and American history, and the many points where they intersect, remain central to the GHI’s work, as the record of activities and publications that follows here amply demon- strates. The GHI’s commitment to German, American, and transatlantic his- tory is probably most apparent in its fellowships and programs for his- torians at the beginning of their careers. In recent years, we have awarded approximately 25 fellowships annually to doctoral students and Habili- tanden for research in American archives. Thanks to the generosity of several foundations, we were able to expand our Nachwuchsprogramme over the past five years. The Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEIT Foundation, 1 An overview of the institute’s projects during its first fifteen years can be found in The German Historical Institute: A Summary of Programs and Activities, Washington, DC, 2003, also available on the web site (www.ghi-dc.org/summary). 2 The German Historical Institute, 2003–2007: Programs and Activities for example, made it possible for us to complement our long-running Summer Seminar in Paleography and Archival Studies for American doc- toral students in German history with a similar program for German students of American history. Another important addition to our pro- grams to support younger scholars is a year-long postdoctoral fellowship in environmental history funded by the Breuninger Foundation. When the previous Summary of Programs and Activities covering the GHI’s first fifteen years was published five years ago, work had only just begun on what is undoubtedly the most ambitious project the institute has undertaken, the German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) web site. GDHI gives students, teachers, and everyone with an interest in Germany’s past free access to an amazingly broad range of primary sources materials. Documents are given