Dr. Georg Wolff
Curt Engelhorn Chair in American History
Former Research Associate
Contact Details:
Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities
Akademie der Wissenschaften des Landes Baden-Würtemberg
Karlstraße 4
D-69117 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 (0) 62 21 / 54 - 3591
E-Mail: georg.wolff@hadw-bw.de
Research Project:
Kurt Klein und Gerda Weissmann-Klein: Jüdisches Exil in den Vereinigten Staaten (Edition).
Profile:
Georg Wolff studied History and Political Science at Heidelberg University. In 2021, he earned a PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy with a thesis entitled “Conservative Mujahideen. Young Americans for Freedom’s Crusade for Conservatism”. For his work, he was presented with the Ruprecht-Karls Prize 2022. From 2017 to 2020, he worked at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History and Politics” at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
For a full academic CV, please click here.
Research Interests:
- U.S. Intellectual History
- Authority and Trust in Political Institutions in U.S.-American Society
- Game Studies - Metahistory in Videogames
- Narratology and Historiography
- Digital Humanities
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