| 2025 | |
| Onyx C | Playing in the Dark of German-Language Children's and Youth Literature (1950s-70s) | | |
| Elizabeth Sokol | Intersections of Surrealism, Ethnography, and Theater: Intermedial Experimentation in the Works of Ilse Schneider-Lengyel, 1934-1956 | |
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| 2024 | |
| Tina Tahir | Painting and Writing with the Camera: The Artistic Processes of Gerhard Richter and W. G. Sebald | |
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| 2023 | |
| Lauren Beck-Solder | Futurity in Migration: Women's Memory and Post-National Imagination in Contemporary German Literature | |
| Pavel Brunssen | The Making of "Jew Clubs": Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Soccer and Fan Cultures | |
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| 2022 | |
| Liz McNeill | Speaking Animals: Animal Psychology Between Experimental Science and Imagination (1840 - 1920) | |
| Emily Gauld | Composing the Musicking Woman: Gender and Nation in the Works of Johanna Kinkel | |
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| 2021 | |
| Domenic DeSocio | The Times of Their Lives: Queer and Female Modernism, 1910-1934 | |
| Mary Hennessy | Handmaidens of Modernity: Gender, Labor, and Media in Weimar Germany | |
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| 2020 | |
| Katy Holihan | Staging the Somatic: The Popular Hygiene Exhibition in Germany, 1882-1931 | |
| Naomi Vaughan | The New Reich Chancellery in Representation. The Intermedial Architecture & Archive of Hitler''s Space of Power. | |
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| 2019 | | |
| Calder Fong | Bergbau, Tagebau, Umbau: The Post-Industrial Landscape Aesthetics of Repurposed Coal Mines in Germany | |
| Emma Thomas | Contested Labors: New Guinean Women and the German Colonial Indenture, 1884-1914 | |
| Andrea Rottmann | Queer Home Berlin? Making Queer Selves and Spaces in the Divided City, 1945-1970 | |
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| 2018 | |
Nic Heckner
| Embodied Historiographies: Affect and Realism in the "Medal of Honor" and "Call of Duty" Franchises after "Saving Private Ryan" | |
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| 2017 | |
Sam Heidepriem
| Representative Judgments: Schiller, Fichte and Buchner on the French Revolution | |
| Elizabeth Nijdam | The German Comic Avant-garde and the Legacy of East German Artistic Practice: The Graphic Art of Anke Feuchtenberger and Henning Wagenbreth | |
| Hannah McMurray | Winning New Freedom: Intersections of Text and Image in the Montage, Typographical, and Graphic Design Work of Kurt Schwitters | |
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| 2016 | |
| Jennie Cain | The Aesthetics of Rudolf Steiner and Spiritual Modernism | |
| Ariana Orozco | Memory and Material Culture in Contemporary German Prose by Jenny Erpenbeck and Judith Schalansky | |
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| 2014 | | |
| Kathryn Sederberg | Germany's Rubble Texts: Writing History in the Present, 1943-1951 | |
| Simon Walsh | Music, National identity, and the Past in Postwar Austrian Literature | |
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| 2013 | |
| Nicholas Block | In the Eyes of Others: The Dialectics of German-Jewish and Yiddish Modernisms | |
| Solveig Heinz | Urban Opera: Navigating Modernity through the Oeuvre of Strauss and Hofmannsthal | |
| Sara Jackson | Staging the Deadlier Sex: Dangerous Women in German Text and Performance at the Fin de Siècle | |
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| 2012 | |
| Ela Gezen | Writing and Sounding the City: Turkish-German Representations of Berlin | |
| Courtney Crimmons Glore | Ruin, Restoration, and Return: Aesthetic Unification in Post-Socialist East Berlin | |
| Seth Howes | Punk Avant-Gardes: Disengagement and the End of East Germany | |
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| 2011 | |
| Kayte Steinbock | Navigating the Individual: Photographic Portrait Typologies in Early 20th Century German Modernity | |
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| 2010 | |
| Michael Georges Andre | Weimar Classicism and the Image of Historical Time | |
| Jeffrey Paul Luppes | To Our Dead: Local Expellee Monuments and the Contestation of German Postwar Memory | |
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| 2009 | |
| Adile Esen | Beyond "In-Between," Travels and Transformations in Contemporary Turkish- German Literature and Film | |
| Sun-Young Kim | Beyond Disintegration. Apocalyptic Discourse in Hermann Broch's Die Schlafwandler | |
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| 2008 | |
| Jay Michael Layne | Uncanny Collapse: Sexual Violence and Unsettled Rhetoric in German-Language Lustmord Representations, 1900-1933 | |
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| 2007 | |
| David M. Choberka | Calling, Charisma, and the War of Material: The First World War in the Politics of Ernst Toller, Ernst Junger, and Max Weber | |
| Robert Felty | Context Effects in Spoken Word Recognition of English and German by Native and Non-native Listeners | |
| Ilka Rasch | The Return of the Red Army Faction (RAF): German Tales of Terror | |
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| 2006 | |
| Avi Kempinski | The Muted I: Locating a Narrator in the Works of W.G. Sebald | |
| Jonathan Otto Wipplinger | The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany | |
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| 2004 | |
| Ulrike Peters Nichols | Beloved Pain: Male Melancholia at the Fin-de-Siecle | |
| Seth Quartey | Missionary Practices: German-Speaking Missionaries between the Home Committee and Colonial Environment in the Gold Coast (West Africa) 1828-1895 | |
| Min Zhou | Journeys to an Unattainable Destination: East German Travel Narratives and DEFA Documentary Films About the Soviet Union. | |
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| 2002 | |
| Marc Edward Pierce | Syllable Structure and Sievers' Law in Gothic and Old Norse | |
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| 2001 | |
| Donovan James Anderson | From Conversation to Discipline and Beyond: A Cultural History of Early Germanistik (1790-1850) | |
| Gita Rajan | Labyrinths of the Colonial Archive: Unpacking German Missionary Narratives from Tranquebar Southeast India (1706-1720) | |
