German Studies

One Word Shapes a Nation examines the cultural, political, social, and economic influences on German integration politics, the field of public policy that shapes attitudes toward immigrants and refugees.

This book profiles men in Germany and beyond who followed Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and adopted his term "urning" as a personal queer identity in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

Entangled Emancipation examines the struggle to redefine the gender order and women’s rights in East and West Germany after the Second World War.

This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers’ groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation.

Drawing from Soviet archives, Stalin’s Gamble traces the role played by the Soviet Union in the origins of the Second World War.

A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.

Uniform Fantasies explores the intimate entanglements between military politics and queer sexual politics in Germany during the decades leading up to the First World War.

This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.

This book sheds light on the seminal ideas of Martin Heidegger's lifelong attention to the question of Being.

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTIQ* perspective.

Writing and Rewriting the Reich offers a comprehensive history of German women journalists throughout the Nazi era.

Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin examines the lives of the scientists and scholars who sought refuge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.

The Persistence of the Sacred examines how Catholic religious practices endured over a century of conflict, revolution, and dramatic social upheaval.

Acting as a lightning rod for transformative thinking, Transverse Disciplines offers exciting new methodologies for reshaping academic work beyond the bounds of traditional disciplines.