Jun.-Prof. Dr. Simon Wendt
Kontakt
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Simon Wendt
Grüneburgplatz 1
Raum 4.217
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Tel: 069/798-32368
Fax: 069/798-32359
wendt@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Zur Person
Education
| 2004 | Ph.D. in Modern History, Free University of Berlin | |
| 2000 | M.A. in Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Employment
| 2010-present | Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor"), University of Frankfurt, Department of American Studies | |
| 2008-2010 | Research Group Leader, University of Heidelberg, Transcultural Studies Program | |
| 2005-2008 | Assistant Professor, University of Heidelberg, Department of History | |
| 2005 | Assistant Professor, University of Bonn, English Department/North American Studies | |
| 2004 | Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Afro-American Studies | |
| 2003-2004 | Instructor/Lecturer, Free University of Berlin, John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Department of History |
Honors and Awards
| 2012 2009 |
Ab Herbst 2012 Fellow am Historischen Kolleg in München German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. – Postdoctoral Research Fellowship |
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| 2008 | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant |
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| 2008 | Jolanta and Soheyl Ghaemian Travel Grant | |
| 2007 | John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Research Fellowship | |
| 2006 | German Research Council (DFG) Travel Grant | |
| 2004 | President’s Memorial Award of the Louisiana Historical Association For the best article of the year in Louisiana History |
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| 2004 | Leucorea Foundation Research Fellowship | |
| 2003-2004 | Foundation for the Support of Scholarship and Culture, City of Hamburg – Dissertation Fellowship | |
| 2001-2003 | State of Berlin – Support of Junior Scholars Program (Nafoeg) – Dissertation Fellowship | |
| 2002 | German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) Dissertation-Research Fellowship | |
| 2002 | German Academic Exchange Service Travel-Research Grant | |
| 2001 | "Memphis State Eight" Paper Prize. Selected as one of the three outstanding papers at the Third Annual Graduate Conference in African American History, Memphis, Tennessee. |
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| 2001 | Nafoeg Travel-Research Grant | |
| 1998-1999 | University of Wisconsin WARF Fellowship | |
| 1998-1999 | German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship |
Research and teaching interests
Modern U.S. History
African American History
Gender History
History and Memory
Nationalism
Heroism and Hero-worship
Current Research Projects
Gender, Memory, and Nation: A History of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Radical Nationalism and Gender in the United States, Germany, and Japan, 1890-1945
(Transcultural Studies Research Group, funded by the German Government's Initiative for Excellence)
Heroism and Hero-Worship in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age
Publications
Books
Ed. (with Michael Butter and Patrick Keller). Arnold Schwarzenegger: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.
Ed. (with Manfred Berg). Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation. New York: Berghahn, 2011.
The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007.
Journal Articles
"Transnational Perspectives on the History of Racism in North America." Amerikastudien/American Studies 54, no. 3 (2009): 473-98.
"Protection or Path toward Revolution? Black Power and Self-Defense." Souls 9, no. 4 (October-December 2007): 320-32.
"'They Finally Found Out that We Really Are Men': Violence, Non-Violence and Black Manhood in the Civil Rights Era," Gender & History 19, no. 3 (November 2007): 543-64.
"God, Gandhi, and Guns: The African American Freedom Struggle in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1964-1965." Journal of African American History 89, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 36-56.
"'Urge People Not to Carry Guns': Armed Self-Defense in the Louisiana Civil Rights Movement and the Radicalization of the Congress of Racial Equality." Louisiana History 45, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 261-86.
"Southern Intellectuals and the Defense of Slavery: The Proslavery Thought of George Fitzhugh and Henry Hughes." Southern Historian 23 (Spring 2002): 56-70.
Book Chapters
"Bodybuilding, Male Bodies, and Masculinity in 19th and 20th Century America: Eugen Sandow and Arnold Schwarzenegger." In Arnold Schwarzenegger: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image, edited by Michael Butter, Patrick Keller und Simon Wendt, 25-48. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.
"Transnationalizing American Studies: Historians' Perspectives," (with Heike Bungert). In American Studies/Shifting Gears, edited by Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, and Michael Butter, 89-116. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010.
""We Were Going to Fight Fire with Fire": Black Power in the South." In Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level, edited by Peniel Joseph, 131-47. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
"Martin Luther Kings Philosophie der Gewaltfreiheit – Prinzip oder Methode? Pazifismus, gewaltloser Protest und bewaffneter Widerstand in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung." In Martin Luther King, Jr.: Leben, Werk und Vermächtnis, edited by Michael Haspel and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, 35-54. Weimar: Wartburg Verlag, 2008.
"Massenmedien und die Bedeutung von Helden und Stars in den USA (1890-1929)." In Medien und Imagepolitik im 20. Jahrhundert: Deutschland, Europa, USA, edited by Daniela Münkel and Lu Seegers, 187-205. Frankfurt: Campus, 2008.
"Krieg und Heldentum in den USA: Die Heroisierung amerikanischer Soldaten vom Ende des Bürgerkriegs bis zum spanisch-amerikanischen Krieg." In Krieg. Vergleichende Perspektiven aus Kunst, Musik und Geschichte, edited by Cord Arendes and Jörg Peltzer, 115-32. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.
"Gewalt und Männlichkeit in der Black Power Bewegung." In Väter, Soldaten, Liebhaber: Männer und Männlichkeiten in der Geschichte Nordamerikas, edited by Jürgen Martschukat and Olaf Stieglitz, 355-69. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007.
"African Americans and Criminal Justice in the American South: The Convict Lease System, 1868-1928." In Criminal Justice in Germany and the United States, edited by Manfred Berg, Stefan Kapsch, and Franz Streng, 19-28. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.
"The Roots of Black Power? Armed Resistance and the Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement." In The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era, edited by Peniel E. Joseph, 145-65. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Encyclopedia Articles
"Black Self-Defense;" "Deacons for Defense and Justice;" "Williams, Robert F." In Encyclopedia of African American History, edited by Leslie Alexander and Walter Rucker, 665-67, 732-33, 1104-05. Santa Barbara: ABL-CLIO, 2010.
"African American Resistance, Jim Crow Era;" "African American Resistance, Reconstruction Era;" "American Slave Rebellions." In International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, edited by Immanuel Ness, 16-19, 19-21, 88-90. New York: Blackwell, 2009.
"Civil Rights Movement." In Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-Present, edited by Paul Finkelman, 411-19. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
"Du Bois, W.E.B" and "Garvey, Marcus." In Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash, edited by James Ciment, 183-84, 256-57. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
"Bunche, Ralph (1904-1971);" "Gandhi, Mohandas (1869-1948);" "Kenyatta, Jomo (1897/1898?-1978);" "King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968);" "Mau Mau;" "Weathermen." In Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Spencer C. Tucker and Andrew McCormick, 214-215, 486-87, 711-12, 720-22, 832-33, 1417-18. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
"Southern Christian Leadership Conference;" "Poor People's Campaign;" "Selma March." In Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, edited by James Ciment, 987-89, 1103-05, 1153-55. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
"Parks, Rosa Louise." In Encyclopedia of American Lives, edited by Arnold Markoe, Karen Markoe, and Kenneth T. Jackson. Vol. 7, 413-15. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.
"Nonviolent Direct Action and the Civil Rights Movement;" "Congress of Racial Equality;" "Racial Violence and the Civil Rights Movement." In Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, edited by Immanuel Ness. Vol. 1, 202-07; 208-11; 222-26. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
"Sullivan, Leon Howard;" "Williams, Hosea Lorenzo." In The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson. Vol. 6, 500-02, 569-71. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.
"Cold War (1945-1950), The Start of the Atomic Age." In Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security, edited by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. Vol. 1, 230-33. New York: Gale, 2004.
"Malcolm X (Malik El-Shabazz)." In The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: The 1960s, edited by William L. O’Neill. Vol. 2, 37-40. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.
"Congress of Racial Equality." In The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul Boyer, et. al., 135. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
