American Studies
J.-W.Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt
E-mail: a.jansen AT em.uni-frankfurt.de
2011-2014: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Universität Tübingen / Visiting Scholar, Department of History, UCLA: Research grant by the Volkswagen Foundation (with sociologist Andreas Franzmann): "Professionalization and Deprofessionalization in the Public Context of Science since 1970. A Case-Based Analysis of Four Research Fields in the U.S. and in Germany." Teaching:
Education Habilitation, American Studies, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 2009 Doctor of Philosophy, American Studies, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 2001 Master of Arts, History, University of Oregon, 1993-1995 English, American Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 1990-93 Employment & Fellowships Oct. 2011 – Okt. 2014: Research grant (Volkswagen Foundation) at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 2010 – 2011 Lecturer, Department of History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2008 – 2010 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Universität Tübingen 2008 Lecturer, Department of History, UCLA 2005 – 2008 Research Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (American studies), J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Department of History, UCLA 2005 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of History, UCLA 2004 and 2005 Visiting Faculty, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman 2004 Postdoc, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. 2004 Socrates Guest Lecturer, American Studies Center, Warsaw University (Poland) 1999 – 2003 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Fellow and Lecturer), Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (American studies), J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt 1997 – 1999 Dissertation Fellowship, State of Hessia (Germany) 1997 Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD), New York City 1993/94 DAAD Fellowship at the University of Oregon, Eugene
Books Alexander Dallas Bache: Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century, Frankfurt/New York, Campus, 2011 > Link Individuelle Bewährung im Krieg. Amerikaner in Europa, 1914-1917 ("The ‘European War’ as an American Proving Ground: Americans in Europe, 1914-1917"), Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2003 > Link Eigeninteresse und Gemeinwohlbindung: Kulturspezifische Ausprägungen in den USA und Deutschland ("Private Interest and Community Orientation: Cultural Patterns in the United States and Germany"), Roland Becker, Andreas Franzmann, Axel Jansen, Sascha Liebermann (ed.), Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 2001 Selected Articles "Heroes or Citizens: The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the European War," in: Christine Krüger, Sonja Levsen (ed.), War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 150-62 "Modernisierungshemmnisse in den USA des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zur zeitdiagnostischen Dimension in Philip Roths Roman Indignation“ (September 2009), Publikationen des Instituts für hermeneutische Sozial- und Kulturforschung [http://ihsk.de/publikationen.htm] "Der Kriegseintritt 1917 als Scharnierstelle des U.S.-amerikanischen Nation-Building", in: Margarete Grandner/Marcus Gräser (ed.), Nordamerika. Geschichte und Gesellschaft seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, Wien: Promedia, 2009, pp. 95-111 "The Scientific Profession’s Role in National Consolidation. Alexander Dallas Bache’s Motives for the 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences," Sozialer Sinn (2/2007), pp. 333-56 "Wissenschaftsförderung in einer sich formierenden Nation. John D. Rockefeller und William Rainey Harper" ("Regional Ambitions for a National Development of Science and Education: John D. Rockefeller and William Rainey Harper"), Ulrich Oevermann, Johannes Süßmann, Christine Tauber (ed.), Die Kunst der Mächtigen und die Macht der Kunst. Neue Studien zur Kulturpatronage, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007, pp. 241-58 "Patriotismus- und Eliteninszenierung im deutschen Hochschulreformdiskurs. Analyse des ‘offenen Briefes’ der Initiative Zukunft Wissenschaft vom September 2005" ("Posturing Patriots: Concerning Some Protagonists of German University Reform"), in: Andreas Franzmann, Barbara Wolbring (ed.), Zwischen Idee und Zweckorientierung: Vorbilder und Motive von Hochschulreformen seit 1945, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007, pp. 185-94 "Die objektive Hermeneutik als Instrument der historischen Fallrekonstruktion. Analyse eines Briefes von Anne Morgan" ("Objective Hermeneutics as a Tool for Historical Case Studies. Analysis of a Letter by Anne Morgan"), Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte – Revue d’histoire (2/2006), pp. 43-56 with Ulrich Oevermann, "Die Wiederherstellung der amerikanischen Krisengemeinschaft als Folge der Anschläge vom September 2001" ("The Regeneration of the U.S. as a Crisis Community: Effects and Consequences of 9/11"), December 2005, Publications of the Institute for Hermeneutic Research on Culture and Society, online at http://ihsk.de/en/publications.htm "Amerikanische Kultureliten und der Erste Weltkrieg, 1914-1917: Rekonstruktion eines Modells lebenspraktischer Bewährung anhand des Aufsatzes ‘The Long Wards’ von Henry James" ("War as Opportunity: Henry James’ Essay ‘The Long Wards’"), Andreas Franzmann, Sascha Liebermann, Jörg Tykwer (ed.), Die Macht des Geistes: Fallanalysen zur Konstitution des Intellektuellen. Geistige Eliten als Protagonisten der Öffentlichkeit, Frankfurt: Humanities-Online, 2001, pp. 337-394
"Science and the Humanities in Public Debate: Stability, Adaptation, and Deformation in Four Research Fields since 1970", Department of History, Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR), March 15, 2012 "The Transnational Profession of Science in a National Context: The 1863 Founding of the National Academy of Sciences", Conference on "The Transnational Significance of the Civil War: A Global History", Sept. 15, 2011, Jena, organized by Jena University and the German Historical Institute, Washington DC "Professionalization and Deprofessionalization in the Public Context of Science in the US and in Germany since 1970", Linea de Estudios Americanos e Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, February 7, 2011 "Science and Nation-Building in the Nineteenth-Century United States," conference on "Las ciencias en la formación de la nación en América Latina (1810-1925)," Instituto Ibero-Americano de Berlin, Prussian Heritage Foundation, November 18, 2010 "Objective Hermeneutics as a Methodological Instrument for Historical Research," Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame, September 9, 2010 "Alexander Dallas Bache and Scientific Education in Antebellum Philadelphia", Workshop on the History of Education, Annual Conference, German Association for American Studies/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGFA), Jena, June 6, 2009 "Amerika als Vorbild in den Reformdebatten", Conference "Zwischen Idee und Zweckorientierung. Vorbilder und Motive von Hochschulreformen seit 1945", J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, March 2, 2006 "Paradoxes of American Nationhood. The Watershed of 1917," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 8, 2006 "Motives for Institution-Building in Nineteenth-Century American Science. Alexander Dallas Bache and Benjamin Peirce," Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), May 20, 2005 "Science as a Profession in an Emerging Nation-State: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. in 1842," Humanities Seminar, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman, February 3, 2005 "Heroes or Citizens? The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the European War," American Studies Center, University of Warsaw (Poland), February 25, 2004 "Heroes or Adventurers? The Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the European War, 1916," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 11, 2004 "Die Bedeutung der universitären Wissenschaft für die USA, 1960-1918" ("The American Research University, 1860-1918"), lecture, part of a series on the history of the university, winter semester 2003, Universität Frankfurt "Zur Entwicklung der Wissenschaften in den USA: Analyse einer Rede des Physikers Alexander Dallas Bache" (On the Development of American Science: Analysis of a Speech by Alexander Dallas Bache), 85. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e.V., Wittenberg, September 29, 2002 "The Price that has to be: American Volunteers with the Allies, 1914-1917 and the Perception of War in a Society at Peace," 69th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London, July 5-7, 2000 "American Volunteers with the Allies, 1914-1917, and the Transformation of the American Nation-State," annual meeting of the New England Historical Association, Boston, April 15, 2000 "Individual Redemption on a New Frontier: Explaining the Success of American Volunteer Ambulance Services in France, 1914-1917, and Its Implications for American Society," Conference of Historians of the German Association for American Studies (DGFA), Tutzing, February 19-20, 1999
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg "Intellektuelle und Öffentlichkeit in den USA, 1880-1918" (US Intellectuals, 1880-1918), graduate seminar, summer semester 2011 "Amerikanische Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Forschung und Lehre im nationalen Kontext" (US Nineteenth-Century Science. Research and Teaching in a National Context), graduate seminar, winter semester 2010/11 Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen "Geschichte der USA, 1800-1918" (US History, 1800-1918), lecture course, Department of History, summer semester 2010 "Die USA der dreißiger bis fünfziger Jahre in den Kriminalromanen Raymond Chandlers" (Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles), graduate seminar, Department of History, summer semester 2010 "Lektürekurs Klassiker der amerikanischen Philosophie und Soziologie" (Readings in American Philosophy and Sociology), tutorial, Department of History, summer semester, 2010 "Künstlerische Ausdeutungen historischer Umbrüche in den USA und in Westeuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert" (Political Analysis Implied in Works of Art - 19th and 20th-Century Europe and the United States), graduate seminar, Department of History, winter semester 2009/10 "'The Early Republic': Politische und kulturelle Ausformung der USA, 1789-1824", undergraduate seminar, Department of History, winter semester 2009/10 "Lektürekurs sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien: Marx und Weber" (Reading Karl Marx and Max Weber), tutorial, Department of History, winter semester 2009/10 "Strukturalismus und Sequenzanalyse" (Structuralism and Sequential Analysis), lecture in the Department of History, February 10, 2010 "Das Attentat auf Lincoln" (Lincoln's Assassination), lecture in the Department of History, June 23, 2009 "Die USA in der Zeit des 'Progressivism' und des 1. Weltkrieges. Kultureller und politischer Umbruch (US History: Progressivism and World War I)", graduate seminar, Department of History, winter semester 2008/09 "Intellektuelle und der amerikanische Bürgerkrieg, 1861-65 (US History: Intellectuals and the Civil War)", graduate seminar, Department of History, winter semester 2008/09 "Einführung in die objektive-hermeneutische Sequenzanalyse (Introduction to Objective Hermeneutics)", tutorial, Department of History, summer semester 2010, winter semester 2008/09, summer semester 2009, winter semester 2009/10 "Lektürekurs sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien in der Geschichtswissenschaft (Readings in Sociological Theory)", tutorial, Department of History, winter semester 2008/09 J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt "The Civil War", graduate seminar, co-taught with PD Dr. Marcus Gräser (History), American Studies, winter semester 2007/08 "The Last Stand of the Inner-Directed? Raymond Chandler und Dashiell Hammett", undergraduate seminar, American Studies, summer semester 2006 "Einführung Sequenzanalyse für Amerikanisten" (Introduction to Objective Hermeneutics for Americanists, co-taught with Katharina Worch), undergraduate and graduate seminar, American Studies, summer semester 2006 & winter semester 2007/08 "Antike und moderne Leistungsethik. Ein systematischer Vergleich" ("Comparing Ancient and Modern Work Ethics"), graduate seminar, American Studies, summer semester 2003, co-taught with Dr. Peter Scholz (History, Frankfurt), PD Dr. Lorenz Rumpf (Classical Philology, Frankfurt), Dr. Andreas Franzmann (Sociology, Frankfurt) "Zur Wissenschaftssoziologie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert" (Sociology and History of Science in the 20th century), graduate seminar, Sociology, summer semester 2003, co-taught with Dr. Roland Burkholz (Sociology, Frankfurt), Dr. Andreas Franzmann (Sociology, Frankfurt), Dr. Peter Münte (Sociology, Bielefeld) "Literaturanalyse als Gesellschaftsanalyse: Philip Roth und die USA im 20. Jahrhundert" ("Literature as a Key to Social Analysis: Philip Roth and the United States in the 20th Century"), undergraduate seminar, American Studies, winter semester 2002/03, co-taught with Dr. Nicole Köck (Sociology) "Textanalysen zur Entwicklung der Wissenschaft in den USA im 19. Jahrhundert" ("History of American Science in the 19th Century: Analysis of Selected Source Material"), graduate seminar, American Studies, summer semester 2002 "Einführung in die amerikanische Ideen- und Sozialgeschichte, Teil 2" ("Survey Course on American Social and Intellectual History, 1865 to the Present"), undergraduate seminar, American Studies, summer semester 2001 and summer semester 2003 "Einführung in die amerikanische Sozial- und Ideengeschichte I" ("Survey Course on American Social and Intellectual History to 1865"), undergraduate seminar, American Studies, winter semester 2000/01 "Die Krise der amerikanischen 'Nationalkultur' in der Zeit des Progressivismus und des Weltkriegs, 1890-1914" ("Progressive Era and World War I"), undergraduate seminar, American Studies, summer semester 2000 "Entwürfe und Deutungen der amerikanischen Nation in Kongreßreden des 19. Jahrhunderts" ("Concepts of American Nationhood: Congressional Speeches of the Nineteenth Century"), undergraduate seminar, American Studies, winter semester 1999/2000 Institute for Hermeneutic Research on Culture and Society, IHSK Frankfurt "Kunst und Kultur" (Introduction to methodology of objective hermeneutics for students of the humanities and social sciences), March 3-7, 2008, co-taught with Dr. Andreas Franzmann "Werk-, Quellen- und Dokumentenanalyse in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften. Eine Einführung in die objektiv-hermeneutische Sequenzanalyse" (Analyzing Sources, Documents, and Works of Art in the Humanities and in the Social Sciences. An Introduction to Objective Hermeneutics), September 15-17, 2006 & August 24-26, 2007, co-taught with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Oevermann University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) "Intellectuals and the Civil War, 1861-65", undergraduate and graduate seminar, Department of History, winter 2008 "Science and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century America. Close Analysis of Selected Source Material," undergraduate and graduate seminar, Department of History, spring 2005 Montana State University, Bozeman Guest lecturer in seminar on Museum Studies, Department of History and Philosophy, September 2004 Warsaw University (Poland) Guest lecturer in seminars on “American Thought” and “The American Media and Foreign Policy,” American Studies Institute, February 2004 University of Vienna (Austria) Lecture in the Department of History, "Der Kriegseintritt 1917 als Scharnierstelle des U.S.-amerikanischen Nation-Building" ("1917 as a Watershed in Building the American Nation"), May 5, 2009
1. Writing and Research Three-Year Research Grant, "Professionalization and Deprofessionalization in the Public Context of Science since 1970. A Case-Based Analysis of Four Research Fields in the US and in Germany", Universität Tübingen/UCLA, with Dr. habil. Andreas Franzmann, funded by Volkswagenstiftung, 2011-14 One-Year Research Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 2007-08 2. Travel and Publication German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD), Travel grant for talk at the University of Notre Dame, September 2010 Socrates guest-lectureship, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw (Poland), February 2004
Instigator, fundraiser, and organizer of faculty exchange program, Department of History, Universität Tübingen & Department of History, University of Oregon (Eugene), 2010 Co-founder and member of the board, Institute for Hermeneutic Research on Culture and Society, IHSK Frankfurt, since 2001
Conceptualizing and Organizing International Conferences "Die Methodenschule der Objektiven Hermeneutik: Versuch einer Standortbestimmung", 10-year anniversary conference of the Institute for Hermeneutic Research on Culture and Society (IHSK) in Frankfurt, September 23, 2011 (conceptualization & organization) [conference program at www.ihsk.de] "Building the American Nation. Universality and Particularity in U.S. History," 29th Historians’ Meeting, German Association for American Studies (DGFA), Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing (Germany), February 9-11, 2007 (conceptualization and organization) „East-West American Studies Conference: Cultural Exchanges between Central/Eastern Europe and America”, Zentrum für Nordamerikaforschung (ZENAF), Universität Frankfurt, 29. Mai – 2. Juni 2002 (organization) „East-West American Studies Conference: Communism, Capitalism, and the Politics of Culture”, ZENAF, Universität Frankfurt, 26. – 29. Juni 2003 (organization) "Private Interest and Community Orientation: Cultural Patterns in the United States and Germany," June 23-25, 2000, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (with colleagues in Frankfurt, Dortmund, and Aargau/Switzerland) (conceptulization and organization)
American Historical Association (AHA), Association for Objective Hermeneutics (AGOH), Deutscher Historikerverband, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German Association for American Studies, DGFA), Organization of American Historians (OAH), History of Science Society (HSS)
updated 17-03-2012
Conceptualizing and Organizing International Conferences "Building the American Nation. Universality and Particularity in U.S. History," 29th Historians’ Meeting, German Association for American Studies (DGFA), Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing (Germany), February 9-11, 2007 "Private Interest and Community Orientation: Cultural Patterns in the United States and Germany," June 23-25, 2000, J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (with colleagues in Frankfurt, Dortmund, and Aargau/Switzerland) Other Responsibilities Member of the board, Institute for Hermeneutic Research on Culture and Society, Frankfurt, since 2001 Professional Membership Deutscher Hochschulverband, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Objektive Hermeneutik,Deutscher Historikerverband, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German Association for American Studies, DGFA), American Historical Association Languages English (native speaker-level); German (native speaker); French (reading good, speaking and writing fair); Latin (Latinum) |
» Research Project "Public Context of Science"
» Department of History, Universität Tübingen
» Institute for Hermeneutic Research on Culture and Society (IHSK Frankfurt)
» Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (IEAS), FB 10, Univ. Frankfurt
» Zentrum für Nordamerikaforschung (ZENAF), Univ. Frankfurt
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