Dr. Nadja Klopprogge
Contact
Office hours
Tue, 9.30 am - 10:30 am
please take contact via email beforehand.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2023
Assistantprofessor (Tenure Track)
North American History, Universität Tübingen
2019-2023
Researcher, lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Chair for Modern History
2021
Parental Leave
2019
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate School of North American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
2019
Lecturer
Universität Basel, Chair for Modern History
2019
Academic Assistant (Postdoc)
Universität Basel, Chair for Modern History
April 2019
Defense of the doctoral thesis “Intimate Histories: African Americans and Germany, since 1933”
2016
Visiting Fellow ‘History of Race and Ethnicity’
German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
2014-2018
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate School of North American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
2005-2013
Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in History and English Philology
Publications
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Intimate Histories: African Americans and Germany since 1933 (Berghahn, forthcoming).
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“Intimate Constellations: Photos of African American-German Intimacies in the Long Postwar Period”, Rethinking History, Special Issue: Intimacies on the Move, (forthcoming, 2023).
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“‘To Live a Peaceful Life’ — African American Defectors in the German Democratic Republic,” German History, (forthcoming, 2023).
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“’The South Had to Reap what She Sowed’ – Scottsboro and the Critique of Motherhood,” Amerikastudien /American Studies, Special Issue: “The Continuity of Change? New Perspectives on U.S. Reform Movements,” (December 2021).
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“The Sexualized Landscape of Post-War Germany and the Politics of Cross-Racial Intimacy in the US Zone,” in: Camilo Erlichman and Christopher Knowles (eds.), Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany: Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-1955, (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Teaching
Archive
Gießen
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10/2022 – 03/2023 Proseminar: Black History Month: Discovering Black History in Gießen
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04/2022 – 09/2022 Proseminar: “Belonging” – A History of Slavery since the 17th Century
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04/2022 – 09/2022 “Once upon a time…” or what is historicizing?
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10/2021 – 03/2022 Seminar: “Mama’s Baby – Papa’s Maybe” History and Theory of Motherhood in Modernity
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10/2021 – 03/2022 Proseminar: Speaking about the Unspeakable – Sex und Race since the 19th Century
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04/2020 – 10/2020 Seminar: A Question of Scale? The American Civil War and the New South in local, national, and global Perspective
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04/2020 – 10/2020 Seminar: Black in the GDR – Migration, Difference, and Racism in East Germany
Basel
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09/2019 – 01/2020 Proseminar: Roots – Kinship and the Question of (Un-)Freedom in the US
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02/2019 – 07/2019 Proseminar: From the Color Line to the Black Atlantic – Conceptions of Space, Time, and Race since the 19th Century
Berlin
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10/2018 – 04/2019 Seminar: Of Mammoths and the Nation – The Beginnings of American Paleontology and Archaeology
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04/2018 – 07/2018 Seminar: Reconstructing Reconstruction – The Many Histories of an Era
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10/2016 – 04/2017 Seminar: Sexuality, Emotions, and the Body in 20th Century U.S. History