Philipp Schulte, M.A.
Profile:
I have been a PhD candidate at the Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History since October 2016. Before I studied History, Economics and Political Science in Heidelberg, Paris, Potsdam and Kaliningrad. In 2015 I completed the German-French dual Master’s degree in History at Heidelberg University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Since November 2017 I have been receiving the scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Before I received the Schurman Scholarship for American History, and the scholarship of the Landesgraduiertenförderung (LGF) Baden-Württemberg. In 2018 I was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City and Doctoral Fellow of the German Historial Institute in Washington D.C.
Contact: P.Schulte@stud.uni-heidelberg.de
Dissertation Project:
“Es ist doch mein Bild!” Image conflicts, Recht am eigenen Bild, and right to privacy in Germany and the USA, 1880-1930 (Working title) 
Research Interests:
- US History
- European History
- Legal History
- History of Knowledge
- Historiography
Publications:
Review: Annette Vowinckel, Agenten der Bilder. Fotografisches Handeln im 20. Jahrhundert, Göttingen: Wallstein 2016, in: Francia-Recensio (2018), No. 4 19./20. Jahrhundert – Histoire contemporaine, Read here.
Review: David Vincent, Privacy. A Short History. Cambridge: Polity Press 2016, in: Historische Zeitschrift 307 (2018), No. 2, p. 443–444, Read here.
Review: James W. Cortada, All the Facts. A History of Information in the United States since 1870, New York: Oxford University Press 2016, in: Neue Politische Literatur 63 (2018), No. 1, p. 98, Read here.
Review: Jessica Lake, The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits. The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy, New Haven; Yale University Press 2016, in: H-Soz-Kult, 07/05/2018, Read here.
Review: Samantha Barbas: Laws of Image. Privacy and Publicity in America, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 2015, in: sehepunkte 16 (2016), No. 11 (11/15/2016), Read here.
Conference report: De l’État-Nation à l'Europe. Histoire du ministère de la Défense et des armées en France et en Allemagne aux XIXe et XXe siècles, in: Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 71 (2012), p. 77–81 (with Marie-Christin Lux).
Conferences and Workshops (Selection):
07/03/2019: Presentation "Commodification of Photographs in the United States at the End of the 19th Century", CIERA Summer School "Photography as Medium, Object and Source", Moulin d'Andé (Normandy), France
09/29/2017: Presentation “Picture conflicts, Recht am eigenen Bild and right to privacy in Germany and the USA, 1880-1930”, Disputationes. Kölner Herbstwerkstatt, Cologne, Germany
07/24–08/02/2017: Archival Summer School in the United States for Junior Historians, German Historical Institute Washington, U.S.A.
06/22/2017: Presentation “Mobility of Information at the End of the 19th century”, Forum of the Heidelberg Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
05/05/2015: CIERA-Workshop Initiation au travail de thèse, Paris, France
