Research Projects
Professor Berg's Current Book Project
Ongoing Dissertations
Working title: “Yet it’s my picture!” Image conflicts, Recht am eigenen Bild, and right to privacy in Germany and the USA, 1880-1930 (abstract)
Working title: Between Peace and Women's Rights. Women Strike for Peace and Second Wave Feminism in the United States (abstract) (CV)
Working title: Beyond the Dichotomy. Sexual Harassment in the Private Sector (abstract) (CV)
Hien Le Pham
Working title: The U.S. on Maritime Disputes in the East and South China Seas: A Reluctant Power
Completed Dissertations
Cîmpean, Raluca
Camelot Revisited: Facets of the Kennedy Myth
Franz, Manuel
"Fight for Americanism". Preparedness-Bewegung und zivile Mobilisierung in den USA 1914-1920
Friedrich, Michael
Das amerikanische Verhältnis zu japanischen Kriegsverbrechen 1931-1948: Reaktion, Bewertung, Verfolgung
Hofmann, Jens
Subventionierte Hegemonie? Das Problem der Offset-Abkommen in den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen (1960-1976)
Honeck, Mischa
We are the revolutionists: Forty-eighters, abolitionists, and the struggle to overthrow slavery
Lorenz, Sophie
'Weil ihre Haut schwarz und ihr Herz rot ist‘: Die DDR und Angela Davis, 1965-1975
Milde, Anja
"Pansies", "Dikes", and Panthers: Coalitions in the Civil and Gay Rights Movements
Riffel, Andreas
Greasers, Gringos, and Atrocities in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
Santoro, Anthony
Exile or Embrace: The Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty in the Contemporary Era
Wolff, Georg
Conservative Mujahideen. Young Americans for Freedom´s Crusade for Conservatism
Completed Second Books
Honeck, Mischa: Our Frontier Is the World. The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy, Ithaca/London 2018.
Von Lingen, Kerstin: "Crimes against Humanity." Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864-1945 (Krieg in der Geschichte 102), Paderborn 2018.