GKAT LecturesEnfreakment and the Fantasy of Super-Whiteness: The Circassian Beauty in the 19th-Century Freak Show

The DFG-funded Research Training Group „Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics“ (GKAT) is based at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies of Heidelberg University. It aims at a systematic and interdisciplinary inquiry into the emergence and transformation of authority and trust in American politics, society, religion, literature and culture since the nineteenth century.