Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship

The Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship is jointly administered by the German Association for American Studies (DGfA) and AAS. Application for this short-term fellowship is made through the DGfA.

The AAS-DGfA Fellowship is open to German citizens or permanent residents at the post-graduate or postdoctoral stages of their careers. The Fellow will be selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project within the field of American studies in general and its German context, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society's collections.

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Layla Marie Koch Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg PhD Candidate in American Studies The Literary Construct of Childhood in the American Foreign Mission Movement
2023-24 Phillip Grider Georg August University of Göttingen Research Associate Nonhuman Agency in Early North American Media
2022-23 Antonia Purk University of Erfurt Postdoctoral Researcher Cooking up Significations: Foodways and Racialization in American Literature of the Long 19th Century
2020-21 Elena Furlanetto University of Erfurt Postdoctoral Fellow Converts, Creoles, Renegades: Dynamics of (Dis)ambiguation in Early North American Literature
2019-20 Andrew Wells University of Greifswald Alfried Krupp Junior Fellow, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Localising Liberty: Freedom in the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760
2018-19 Tatania Prorokova Philipps-Universität Marburg Adjunct Instructor in American Studies Climate Change, the Environment, and the Industrial Revolution in the U.S.
2017-18 Maria Kaspirek Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg PhD Candidate in American Studies (In)Sanitary Science: The Discourse of Mental Hygiene as Tacit Knowledge in Antebellum Literature
2016-17 Lukas Etter University of Siegen Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 'Word Problems': Popular and Educational Discourses on Mathematics in the Pre-Civil War United States
2016-17 Johanna Siebert Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz PhD Candidate Networks of Taste: The Early African Caribbean Press in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
2015-16 Sebastian Herrmann University of Leipzig Lecturer in American Studies Imagining (Big) Data
2014-15 Heike Steinhoff Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Assistant Professor of American Studies Sex in the City: Urban Sexuality in American Literature and Culture
2013-14 Heike Jablonski Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg PhD Candidate John Foxe in America
2012-13 Andrea Zittlau University of Rostock Research Assistant Disfigurement and the Medical Gaze in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
2012-13 Birte Christ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Assistant Professor A Systematic Survey of Anti-Gallows Poetry in the Democratic Review, The Hangman/The Prisoners' Friend, and Selected Periodicals from 1842-1849
2011-12 Carsten Junker University of Bremen Assistant Professor Reading Affect in Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Debates
2010-11 Gudrun Löhrer John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin Visiting Professor A Cultural History of U.S.-American Banknotes in the Early Nineteenth Century
2009-10 Alexandra Ganser Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg Assistant Professor (Post)Colonial Economies and Spectacles of Consumption in Transatlantic Narratives of Piracy from the Late 17th Century to 1900
2008-09 Sabine Schindler Martin Luther Univeristy PhD Candidate Talk of the Nation: Public speaking, Cultural Performance, and the Negotiation of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century America, 1840-1880
2008-09 Juliane Braun Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz PhD Candidate Petit Paris en Amérique? – French Theatrical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
2007-08 Nicole Waller Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz Junior Professor American Encounters with Islam in the Atlantic World
2006-07 Kristina Hinz-Bode University of Kassel Assistant Professor America's Cultural Deficits: A Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature
2006-07 Katja Kanzler Leipzig University Associate Professor Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's Writing
2005-06 Thomas Clark University of Kassel Assistant Professor Toquevillian Moments: Transatlantic Visions of an American Republican Culture
2005-06 Kerstin Vogel University of Mainz Instructor Looking-Glass Legacies- The Writings of William Apess
2004-05 Katharina Erhard PhD Candidate 'An Empire in Many Respects the Most Interesting in the World': Choreographies of Empire in Early American Plays
2003-04 Bernd Herzogenrath University of Cologne Researcher Cotton Mather’s Conception of the Body
2002-03 Karsten Kummer University of Bremen Lecturer Eighteenth-Century German-American Texts: A Study of Intercultural Negotiations and Relations