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
2013-14 Heike Jablonski Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg PhD Candidate John Foxe in America
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
2012-13 Andrea Zittlau University of Rostock Research Assistant Disfigurement and the Medical Gaze in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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