Alumni

2011

James Dorson

Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Negative Imagination

Markus Kienscherf

Securing the Homeland –Pacifying the Globe: U.S. Domestic and International Security Policies from the 1960s to the Present

Susann Park-Gessner

American Self-Fashioning. Die Bedeutung von Kleidung, Stil und Mode für Identitätsbildung und Anerkennung in den USA bis 1945

Britta Schumacher

The Return of Rehabilitation - A Consideration of Contemporary American Criminal Policy

Jasper Trautsch

Inventing America: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1789-1815

Frank Wilker.

Race, Memory and Imagery in American Narratives of the Middle Passage

2012

Benz, Martina

Worker Centers, Organisierungen von MigrantInnen und Minderheitenangehörigen im Niedriglohnsektor und in der informellen Ökonomie der USA

Barbara Antoniazzi

Wayward Femininity: Progressivism, Prostitution and Performance in America (1888-1917)

Silke Chorus

The Commodification of Care in Postfordism

Frese, Sophia

Between the Promised Lands: Literary Representations of Israel in Jewish and Palestinian American Literature

Azadeh Ghahghaei

A Comparative Study of Social Capital between Hispanic Catholics and Hispanic Evangelicals in Los Angeles

Silke Hackenesch

From Cocoa Slavery to Chocolate City: Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in the Constructions of Blackness

Susanne Hamscha

“The Fiction of America”: Performing the Cultural Imaginary in American Literature and Culture

Maria Slowinska

Art/Commerce. The Phenomenal and Discursive Convergence of Contemporary

Art and Marketing

Timo Tonassi

The Nativist Frame. Past and Contemporary Representations of Immigrants

in American Nativist Media Outlets

2013

Vormann, Boris

Blind Spots of Globalization, Neoliberalization Processes in North American Port Cities