Dr. Wilfried Mausbach
Executive Director
Contact
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Hauptstr. 120
69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 6221 543712
E-Mail: wmausbach@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours
Monday, 4 - 5 p.m.
Thursday, 11 - 12 a.m.
HCA, Room 206
Areas of Specialization
- Transnational history with a focus on social movements in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States
- History of German-American relations since 1945
Education and Employment
Since 2005: Executive Director of the HCA
2003-2005: Research fellow, Volkswagen Foundation
2002-2003: Research fellow, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin
2000-2002: Research fellow, University of Heidelberg
1995-2000: Research fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
1994: PhD in Modern History, University of Cologne
Selected Publications
The American Presidency. Ed. with Dietmar Schloss and Martin Thunert. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. Ed. with Belinda Davis, Martin Klimke and Carla MacDougall. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
“Forlorn Superpower: European Reactions to the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq,” in: Lloyd C. Gardner und Marilyn B. Young (eds.), Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, or, How Not to Learn From History. New York: The New Press, 2007, pp 59-87.
“Wende um 360 Grad? Nationalsozialismus und Judenvernichtung in der ‚zweiten Gründungsphase’ der Bundesrepublik,” in: Christina von Hodenberg and Detlef Siegfried, Eine ‚zweite Gründung?’ ‚1968’ und die langen 60er Jahre in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, pp 15-47.
“’Burn, ware-house, burn!’ Modernity, Counterculture, and the Vietnam War in West Germany,” in: Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried (eds.), Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006, pp 175-202.
America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives. Ed. with Andreas W. Daum and Lloyd C. Gardner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Zwischen Morgenthau und Marshall. Das wirtschaftspolitische Deutschlandkonzept der USA, 1944-1947. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1996.