GSC 55: Graduate School of North American Studies
History
Social Sciences
Economics
Final Report Abstract
In accordance with the academic mission of Freie Universität Berlin, the Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) investigated “The Challenges of Freedom” and the meaning of democratic values past and present. Research at GSNAS aimed at a comprehensive analysis of the social, economic and cultural changes facing North America at the beginning of the 21st century. In the first funding period, the Graduate School‘s research agenda focused on globalization, transnational dependencies and threats in post-9/11 America (2006-2012). Against the background of the global financial crisis of 2008/09, research during the second funding period focused on phenomena of crisis in U.S. society in a broader context (2012-2019). This included, among others, studying the causes and the management of crises in American social history, analyzing the polarization of American domestic politics, and investigating the consequences of globalization for the American economy and American foreign policy. In addition, GSNAS investigated the role of religion and the media, and assessed the functions of art and culture in times of crisis. In the coming years, GSNAS seeks to investigate "Transformations of ‘Democracy‘ in North America." Research at the Graduate School was pursued in close collaboration of six disciplines, integrating the social sciences and the humanities in a coordinated research design. By undertaking this research at an academic institution outside North America, findings provided an external perspective that responded to earlier calls in the American Studies community to overcome the domestic agenda of the field. The academic aims of the School’s program were twofold: (1) to expand the knowledge of North American societies and cultures by supporting innovative research in six disciplines – cultural and literary studies, economics, history, political science and sociology – and (2) to train specialists on North America to meet the needs of a variety of academic and professional fields including the media and public affairs. To this end, GSNAS established a curriculum that combined seminars in disciplinary research methods with more general interdisciplinary courses covering the nine research areas of the School. The implementation of a close-knit mentoring process with a mentoring team of three supervisors was designed to offer doctoral candidates the best possible academic support and to complete their dissertations within the envisaged three-year or four-year grant period.
Link to the final report
https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1696290554
Publications
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(2009). Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies. Heidelberg: Winter
Fluck, W.
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(2009). Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Gienow-Hecht, J.
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(2010). Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Conrad, S.
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(2010). Release a Man for Combat: the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Köln [u.a.]: Böhlau
Hampf, M. M.
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(2011). Color-Line and Crossing-Over: Motown and Performances of Blackness in 1960s American Culture. WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, Trier
Luthe, M.
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(2011). The Discovery of Point of View: observation and narration in the American novel 1790-1910. Heidelberg: Winter
Klepper, M.
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(2011). What drives U.S. immigration policy? Evidence from congressional roll call votes. Journal of Public Economics, 95(7), 734-74
Facchini, G., & Steinhardt, M. F.
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(2012). Enlightenment in Global History: A Historiographical Critique. The American Historical Review, 117(4), 999-1027
Conrad, S.
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(2012). Grey Zones of the Market. In M. Lall (Ed.), Policy, Discourse and Rhetoric (pp. 15-40). Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei
Püschel, J., & Vormann, B.
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(2012). Social Movements in Urban Politics: Trends in Research and Practice. In P. John, K. Mossberger, & S. E. Clarke (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Mayer, M., & Boudreau, J.-A.
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(2012). US Domestic and International Regimes of Security: Pacifying the globe, securing the homeland. London: Routledge
Kienscherf, M.
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(2012). Welcome Home Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus
Jobs, S.
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(2013). Care-Ökonomie im Postfordismus: Perspektiven einer integralen Ökonomietheorie. Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot
Chorus, S.
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(2013). Demystifying the Judge: Law and Mythical Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. jml: Journal of Modern Literature, 36(2), 105-121
Dorson, J.
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(2013). Does Saving Increase the Supply of Credit? A Critique of Loanable Funds Theory. World Economic Review, 1(4), 1-15
Lindner, F.
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(2013). Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and perspective (Vol. 17). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing
Klepper, M., & Holler, C. (Eds.)
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(2013). Revisiting the Sixties. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade (Vol. 32). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus
Bieger, L., & Lammert, C. (Eds.)
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(2013). The Cultural Career of Coolness: Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Haselstein, U., Hijiya-Kirschnereit, I., Gersdorf, C., & Giannoulis, E. (Eds.)
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(2013). The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film (Vol. 31). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus
Hamscha, S.
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(2013). The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance (Vol. 126). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Risse, T., Ropp, S. C., & Sikkink, K. (Eds.)
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2013. Sozialpolitik in den USA: Eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS
Lammert, C. & Grell, Britta
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(2014). International Organizations and Development, 1945–1990. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Kunkel, S., Frey, M., & Unger, C. R. (Eds.)
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(2014). Public Debt in Post‐1850 German Economic Thought vis‐à‐vis the Pre‐1850 British Classical School. German Economic Review, 15(1), 62-83
Holtfrerich, C. L.
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(2014). Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers. Alresford: Zero Books
Kelleter, F.
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(2014). The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 (Vol. 48). Berlin; München; Boston: de Gruyter
Sedlmeier, F.
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(2014). The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
Antoniazzi, B.
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(2014). Uncertain Knowledge. Rethinking History, 18(1), 2-9
Jobs, S.
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(2014). Unsicheres Wissen und Gewalt – Der Sklavenaufstand von Camden 1816 und Praktiken der Vergewisserung im US-amerikanischen Süden. Historische Anthropologie, 22(3), 313-331
Jobs, S.
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(2014). Zwischen Migration und Arbeit: Worker Centers und die Organisierung prekär und informell Beschäftigter in den USA. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot
Benz, M.
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(2015). A community of Europeans? - Transnational Identities and Public Spheres. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press
Risse, T.
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(2015). Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Wasserman, S., & Tischleder, B. B. (Eds.)
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(2015). Die somatische Differenz. Europäische Vorstadtrevolte und Afroamerikanischer Diskurs. Baden-Baden: Nomos
Hoffmeister, J.
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(2015). Encountering Empire: African American Missionaries and Colonial Africa, 1900-1939. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag
Engel, E.
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(2015). European Citizenship and Social Integration in the European Union. London: Routledge
Gerhards, J., & Lengfeld, H.
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(2015). Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks. New York: Routledge
Vormann, B.
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(2015). Letters Against the Firmament. London: Enitharmon Press
Bonney, S.
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(2015). Measuring Task Content and Offshorability. Applied Economics Letters, 22(5), 406-410
Püschel, J.
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(2015). Music and International History in the Twentieth Century. New York; Oxford: Berghahn
Gienow-Hecht, J. (Ed.)
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(2015). Soziale Bewegungen in den USA: Zwischen kommunitärer Solidarität und Gleichheitsversprechen des Amerikanischen Traums. In C. Lammert, M. Siewert, & B. Vormann (Eds.), Handbuch Politik USA (pp. 1-16). Wiesbaden
Mayer, M.
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(2016). Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle: Essays on Twentieth Century American Poetry and Fiction. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter
Ickstadt, H.
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(2016). Allegorie: DFG-Symposion 2014. Berlin: DeGruyter
Haselstein, U. (Ed.)
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(2016). Beyond Militarization and Repression: Liberal Social Control as Pacification. Critical Sociology, 42(7-8), 1179-1194
Kienscherf, M.
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(2016). Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns. Frankfurt a.M.; New York: Campus Verlag
Dorson, J.
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(2016). Die Allegorie in der postkolonialen Literatur und Literaturtheorie. In U. Haselstein (Ed.), Allegorie. Symposium der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 2014 (pp. 528-556). Berlin: de Gryter
Sedlmeier, F.
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(2016). Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality. New York; London: Routledge
Schülting, S.
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(2016). Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East: Performing Cultures. New York: Routledge
Schülting, S., Müller, S. L., & Hertel, R. (Eds.)
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(2016). Empire of Pictures: Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy (Vol. 8). New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books
Kunkel, S.
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(2016). Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press
Schillings, S.
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(2016). Fathers, Warriours, and Vigilantes: Post-Heroism and the US Cultural Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century (Vol. 10). Heidelberg: Winter
Tanrisever, A.
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(2016). Going to extremes: Politics after financial crises, 1870–2014. European Economic Review, 88, 227-260
Funke, M., Schularick, M., & Trebesch, C.
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(2016). Government debt: causes, effects and limits. German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, National Academy of Science and Engineering, Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, 1-76
Holtfrerich, C.-L., Feld, L. P., Heun, W., Illing, G., Kirchgässner, G., Kocka, J., . . . Walter, S.
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(2016). Handbuch Politik USA. Wiesbaden
Lammert, C., Siewert, M. B., & Vormann, B. (Eds.)
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(2016). Historical Institutionalism and International Relations: Explaining Institutional Development in World Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Viola, L. A., Rixen, T., & Zürn, M. (Eds.)
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(2016). Kindler Klassiker: Amerikanische Literatur. Stuttgart: Metzler
Kelleter, F. (Ed.)
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(2016). Performing Authorship: Strategies of 'Becoming an Author' in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Bielefeld: transcript
Longolius, S.
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(2016). Philosophical Premises in Literary and Cultural Theory: Narratives of Self-Alienation. New Literary History, 47(1), 109-134
Fluck, W.
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(2016). Pixar's America: The Re-animation of American Myths and Symbols. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan
Meinel, D.
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(2016). The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Risse, T., & Börzel, T. A. (Eds.)
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(2016). What is Global History? Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Conrad, S.
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(2016). Why Health Care Reform Now? Strategic Framing and the Passage of Obamacare. Social Policy & Administration, 50(4), 467-481
Leimbigler, B., & Lammert, C.
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(2017). Chocolate and Blackness. A Cultural History (Vol. 38). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus
Hackenesch, S.
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(2017). Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage (Vol. 241). Heidelberg: Winter Verlag
Wilker, F.
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(2017). Five Ways of Looking at Popular Seriality. In F. Kelleter (Ed.), Media of Serial Narrative (pp. 7-34). Columbus: Ohio State University Press
Kelleter, F.
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(2017). Media of Serial Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press
Kelleter, F. (Ed.)
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(2017). No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012. American Economic Review, 107(2), 331-353
Knoll, K., Schularick, M., & Steger, T.
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(2017). Rates, Romance, and Regulated Monopoly in Frank Norris's The Octopus. Studies in American Naturalism, 12(1), 50-69
Dorson, J.
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(2017). Social Class and Transnational Human Capital: How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization. London: Routledge
Gerhards, J., Carlson, S., & Silke, H.
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(2017). The Dialectics of Liquidity Crisis: An interpretation of explanations of the financial crisis of 2007-08. New York: Routledge
Jefferis, C.
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(2017). Unpopular Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Lüthe, M., & Pohlmann, S. (Eds.)
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(2018). Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration. European Journal of Political Economy, 55, 471-490
Poutvaara, P., & Steinhardt, M. F.
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(2018). Financial Performativity as Evidence of Immanence: The Phenomenology of Liquidity Crisis in Contemporary Markets for Risk. Journal of Cultural Economy, 11(4), 291-302
Jefferis, C.
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(2018). Nation Branding in Modern History. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books
Gienow-Hecht, J., Viktorin, C., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (Eds.)
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(2018). Neoliberalism and the Urban. In D. Cahill, M. Cooper, M. Konings, & D. Primrose (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism (pp. 483-495). New York: Sage
Mayer, M.
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(2018). Power or Economic Law? Fresh Reflections on ECB Policy. Intereconomics, 53(3), 164-169
Holtfrerich, C.-L.
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(2018). Self-Help and/in Mass Cultures: Performatives of (Self) Management and Race between 1890 and 1930. In J. Dorson & J. J. Verlinden (Eds.), Fictions of Management: Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture (pp. 73- 99). Heidelberg: Winter Verlag
Klepper, M., & Graaff, K.
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(2018). Situational Dynamics and the Emergence of Violence in Protests. Psychology of violence, 8(3), 293-304
Nassauer, A.
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(2018). The Genesis of America: US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793–1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Trautsch, J. M.
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(2018). The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America. Bielefeld: trancript
Odabas, J.
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(2018). The Paratext and Literary Narration: Authorship, Institutions, Historiographies. Narrative, 26(1), 63-80
Sedlmeier, F.
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(2018). Traveling Cultures in the Here. There, and Now of a New Black Atlantic. In F. Kelleter & A. Starre (Eds.), Projecting American Studies (pp. 109-117). Heidelberg: Winter
Lüthe, M.
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(2018). Video Data Analysis: A Methodological Frame for a Novel Research Trend. Sociological Methods & Research
Nassauer, A., & Legewie, N. M.
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(2018). Wissen - Transfer - Differenz: transnationale und interdiskursive Verflechtungen von Rassismen ab 1700. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag
Hampf, M. M., & Bruns, C. (Eds.)
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(2019). Contours of the Illiberal State: Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy. Frankfurt;New York: Campus Verlag
Lammert, C., & Vormann, B. (Eds.)
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(2019). Democracy in Crisis: The Neoliberal Roots of Popular Unrest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Vormann, B., & Lammert, C.
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(2019). Drawing on the Past: The Graphic Narrative Documentary. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus
Wege, B.
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(2019). Empire of Liberty: Die Vereinigten Staaten von der Reconstruction zum Spanisch-Amerikanischen Krieg. Berlin: De Gruyter
Hampf, M. M.
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(2019). European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Insights from a Thirteen-Country Survey. Milton Park; New York: Routledge
Gerhards, J., Lengfeld, H., Ignácz, Z., Kley, F. K., & Priem, M.
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(2019). Gertrude Steins literarische Porträts. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press
Haselstein, U.
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(2019). Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change: The Case of Regional Parliamentarization. International Studies Quarterly, 1-14
Viola, L. A., Lenz, T., & Burilkov, A.
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(2019). More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships. Journal of Labor Economics, 37(3), 663-713
Merlino, L. P., Steinhardt, M. F., & Wren-Lewis, L.
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(2019). Precarious Figurations: Shylock on the German Stage, 1920–2010. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter
Schülting, S., & Ackermann, Z.
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(2019). Race, class and persistent coloniality: US policing as liberal pacification. Capital & Class, 43(3), 417-436
Kienscherf, M.
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(2019). Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes. New York: Oxford University Press
Nassauer, A.
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(2019). The Limits of Critique and the Affordances of Form: Literary Studies after the Hermeneutics of Suspicion. American Literary History, 31(2), 229-248
Fluck, W.
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(2019). Walt Whitman’s Antagonistic Inheritors: Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams. In W. Herget (Ed.), Revisiting Walt Whitman: On the Occasion of his 200th Birthday (pp. 255-276). Berlin: Peter Lang
Ickstadt, H.
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(2019). Work in Progress: Curatorial Labor in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Jordan, R.
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(2019): With the Face of the Enemy. Arab American Literature Since 9/11. Frankfurt: Campus Frankfurt / New York (Nordamerikastudien, 40).
Motyl, K.
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(2020). The Closure of the International System: How Institutions Create Political Equalities and Hierarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 273 S.
Viola, L. A.
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(2020). The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary. Bielefeld: transcript (accepted)
Horstmannshoff, K.