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Research Training Group: GRK 2244/2 Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics
The Graduiertenkolleg Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics (GKAT) is a research training group at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2017 to 2026. GKAT features interdisciplinary research in the broad field of American Studies. The topical focus of GKAT’s research program is the emergence and transformation of authority and trust in American politics, geography, religion, literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present.
Research Areas
To facilitate collaboration between the disciplines, three broad research areas reflect local research interests but also concern trouble areas of U.S. society and culture that are central to GKAT‘s theme:
Completed Dissertations
- Colaianni, Nicole, 2024, Sexual Harassment Beyond the Dichotomy: The Role of Private Institutions in the Struggle Over Sexual Harassment
- Güngür, Aylin, 2024, 'Race' and Cultural Dimensions of Trust in Los Angeles and Atlanta
- Lin, Shasha, 2024, Trust in Fair College Admissions and Policy Acceptance: A Comparative Study of Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese Americans in the Debate over Affirmative Action
- López-Liendo, Valentina, 2024, Prestige, Identity and Authorship: Situating Colson Whitehead in the Literary Field
- Keller, Judith, 2023, No Place to Call Home, No Place to Trust: Reconsidering the Spatial Dimension of Trust during the American Housing Crisis
- Manger, Edward, 2023, Religion and Trust in the Theological Defence of the Confederacy
- Berberich, Kristin, 2021, Discursive Construction of Neighborhood Across Brooklyn: A Corpus Ethnographic Approach
- Eisler, David, 2021, Unburdened: Civil-Military Relations, Cultural Authority, and Contemporary American War Fiction
- Jetter, Claudia, 2021, Sacred Texts and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
- Polinska-Nestmann, Aleksandra, 2021, Understanding Asymmetries: Distinct Qualities of Media Distrust Between Progressives and Conservatives in the United States and their Implications for the Future of American News Media
- Werner, Cosima, 2021, At the Store: Convenience Stores as Social Spaces in Deprived Neighborhoods in the United States
- Wolff, Georg, 2021, American Conservatism and the Struggle against Federal Authority: Grassroots Organizing, Activism, Discourse
- Sommer, Tim, 2019, Transatlantic Authority: Carlyle, Emerson, and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literary Space
Past GKAT Conferences
- June 10 – 12, 2024, Conference “Institutional Authority: Trust, Judgment, Value”
- May 11 – 13, 2023, PhD Conference “Practicing Trust and Authority”
- October 16 – 17, 2020, PhD Conference, “Authority and Trust: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
- July 4 – 6, 2019, International Symposium “Transatlantic Literary Authority: Material Networks, Symbolic Economies”