Research
Main research areas:
- Constitutional History
- Gender History
- History of Ideas
- History of polarization
- Political History
- Popular justice and Violence
- Race and Ethnicity in History
- Racism
- Social and Political Movements
- Trans- and International History
Besides diverse individual research projects, there is a close cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. Notably this includes the interdisciplinary research training group Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics. Since 2017 this research group has been engaged in the question of what way authority and trust have shaped US-American politics and society from the 19th century up into the present.