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Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism By Carl Niekerk

2025-02-25

In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals—including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot;...

Congratulations to Anne Olmstead!

2025-04-30

Congratulations to Anne Olmstead, Office Manager in the Departments of Germanic Languages & Literatures and French & Italian! Anne is a recipient of this year's Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Anne not only demonstrates the...

Congratulations Basil Agu!

2025-04-09

We are pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for this year. These fellowships provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Evaluation criteria includes the quality of the proposal;...

Register Now for Great Fall Classes!

2025-03-17

Check out this page for more information about GLL's Fall 2025 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education...

Congratulations to Prof. Stephanie Hilger on her new book!

2024-12-10

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as “hermaphrodites”, this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and German. Medicalizing Difference...

Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest

2024-10-02

This account of the “laboratory of radical democracy” in the months before East Germany’s absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany’s reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. The...

Congratulations to Prof. Laurie Johnson on her participation in the Public Voices Fellowship

Professor Laurie Johnson has been selected for the 2024-25 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship with the University of...

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Congratulations to Fellowship Winners!

2024-04-26

For the Academic Year 2024-2025, GLL MA students Marie Jensen and Jaider De La Hoz have been awarded, respectively, the “Edelweiss Scholarship” and...

Congratulations to Jared Evan Cohen!

2024-04-26

GLL PhD. Student Jared Evan Cohen won The Program in Jewish Culture & Society Karasik Scholarship for the coming academic year 2024-2025 to advance his pre-dissertation research in German-Jewish studies. The scholarship...

Congratulations to Andrew Schwenk!

GLL doctoral candidate Andrew Schwenk has been awarded a competitive and prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Germany during the academic year 2024-2025. He will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. His dissertation project investigates depictions of travel in the early modern prose novels between 1450-1600. It uses this under-researched theme to shed new light on early modern understandings of Self and Other and social and religious change, thus...

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