Academic CV PD Dr. Mischa Honeck Current Affiliation German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington DC 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW Washington DC, 20009 United States Phone: +1 202 387 3355 Email: honeck@ghi-dc.org Web: http://www.ghi-dc.org/ghi-staff/research-fellows Research Areas America in the World, Transnational History, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, History of Youth and Childhood Academic Education Habilitation 03-2010 12/2016 Heidelberg University, Faculty of Philosophy Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Modern and Contemporary History Titel of Habilitation Thesis (submitted in June 2016): Our Frontier is the World: An Imperial History of the Boy Scouts of America First Referee: Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg Second Referee: Prof. Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer Third Referee: Prof. Dr. Till Koessler PhD 04/2004 06/2008 Heidelberg University, Department of History Titel of Dissertation: We Are the Revolutionists: Forty-Eighters, Abolitionists, and the Struggle to Overthrow Slavery First Reader: Prof. Dr. Manfred Berg Second Reader: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Detlef Junker Grade: summa cum laude 1
M.A. 04/1998 03/2004 Graduate Studies in Medieval and Modern History and in English Philology, Heidelberg University Degree: Magister Artium M.A. Thesis: An Apple of Gold in A Picture of Silver: Interpretations of the Declaration of Independence on the Eve of the Civil War 09/2001 07/2002 Exchange Student at Portland State University, Oregon (History, Philosophy, American Literature) Academic Employment seit 01/2012 Research Fellow, GHI Washington. Activities: Habilitation Thesis (Research and Writing) Director of the Bosch Foundation Archival Summer School for Young Historians (co-organized by the GHI and the Department of History, University of Chicago) Member of the Research Group Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (directed by Professor Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Organization of Panels and Workshops Member of the Stipend Selection Commission Member of the Conference Selection Commission Co-Editor of the Transatlantischen Historischen Studien, Franz Steiner Verlag 04/2008 5/2011 Research Associate, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA). Activities: Coordinator of the PhD Program Ph.D. in American Studies Aquisition of Outside Funding for Research Activities Organization of Conferences and Public Events Responsible for the HCA s Visiting Scholars Program Coordinator of the interdisciplinary and international Research Project A Transcultural Atlantic: Constructing Communities in a Global Context 04/2007 5/2011 Adjunct Professor (Lehrbeauftragter) at the Department of History, Heidelberg University. Courses Taught: Slavery and Abolitionism The Old South: Myth, Memory, and History Adolescent Nation: The United States, 1815-1848 The American Civil War in Transnational Perspective Environmental History: Concepts, Problems, and Practices The Age of Atlantic Revolutions Youth and Nation in the United States, 1900-1945 04/2004 03/2008 Academic Tutor at the HCA, the Department of History and the Alfred Weber Institute of Economics, Heidelberg University 2
Academic Fundraising Project Supported by Funds 06/2009 A Transcultural Atlantic: German Federal Ministry of 188.000,- Euro Constructing Communities Economics and Energy in a Global Context (Transatlantikprogramm) 09/2012 Bosch Foundation Archival Robert Bosch Foundation 54.000,- Euro Summer School for Young Historians ------------------ 242.000,- Euro Non-Academic Employment 08/2002 11/2008 Free-Lance Journalist, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Heidelberg 07/1999 06/2001 Notary Public s Assistant, Notary Public s Office Ludwig Draxel- Fischer, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 09/1997 04/1998 Notary Public s Assistant, Notary Public s Office Helmut Baumann and Gerd Schütz, Landau in der Pfalz 09/1995 08/1997 Notary Public s Assistant Apprenticeship, Notary Public s Office Roland Schlindwein, Edenkoben Committee Work since 09/2013 since 01/2016 Representative of the Academic Staff, GHI Washington (Internal Communication, Representation of Staff Interests at the GHI Advisory Board Meetings) Research Fellow Representative for the Max Weber Foundation (MWS), Bonn (Representation of the Research Fellows Interests at MWS Board Meetings, Member of MWS Task Forces Evaluation and Quality Assurance and Promotion of Young Scholars ) Reviewer for Academic Journals and Presses American Historical Review Atlantic Studies Journal of the Civil War Era Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Lousiana State University Press Past Tense Transatlantische Historische Studien 3
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships 12/2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title für We Are the Revolutionists 06/2011 SDAW-Prize of the German Association for American Studies for the Article A Cheer for Free Labor Cotton (DGFA) 05/2011 12/2011 Postdoctoral Fellowship for North American History, GHI Washington 04/2010 SHEAR Manuscript Prize Finalist 09/2006 03/2008 Dissertation Stipend of the Schurman Foundation for American History 09/2005 08/2006 Kade Heideking Fellowship of the GHI Washington and the Max Kade Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 04/2005 Society of Early Americanists Travel and Conference Grant Memberships German Association for American Studies (DGfA) American Historical Association (AHA) Organization of American Historians (OAH) Historikerverband Language Skills German fluent English fluent Russian basic knowledge Latin reading knowledge French reading knowledge Washington DC, November 10, 2016 4
Publications & Teaching Books Our Frontier is the World: An Imperial History of the Boy Scouts of America (Cornell University Press, forthcoming) We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2011) Edited Works More than Victims: War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) [with James Marten] Transnational Generations: Organizing Youth in the Cold War, 1945-1980, Special Forum in Diplomatic History 38/2 (2014) [with Gabriel N. Rosenberg] Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013) [with Martin Klimke und Anne Kuhlmann] paperback edition published in 2016. Journal Articles The Power of Innocence: Anglo-American Scouting and the Boyification of Empire, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 42/3 (2016): 441-466. Men of Principle: Gender and the German-American War for the Union, Journal of the Civil War Era 5/1 (March 2015): 38-67. Transnational Generations: Organizing Youth in the Cold War, Diplomatic History 38/2 (2014): 233-239 [with Gabriel N. Rosenberg]. An Empire of Youth: American Boy Scouts in the World, 1910-1960, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 52 (Spring 2013): 95-112. Abolitionists from the Other Shore: Radical German Immigrants and the Transnational Struggle to End American Slavery, Amerikastudien/American Studies 2011 (56/2): 10-48. Freemen of all Nations, Bestir Yourselves Felice Orsini s Transnational Afterlife and the Radicalization of America, Journal of the Early Republic 30 (Winter 2010): 587-615. Free-Soilers and Forty-Eighters: The Anglo- and German-American Campaign Against Slavery in Western Texas, 1854-1856, Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (2007): 41-51. In Pursuit of Freedom : African-, Anglo-, and German-American Alliances in the Abolition Movement, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 38 (2006): 99-117. Chapters in Edited Volumes Friends of the Free World: The Boy Scouts and the Creation of America s Cold War Empire, in Growing Up America: Youth and Politics since 1945, eds. Susan Eckelmann, Sara Fieldston, and Paul Mokrzycki Renfro (in preparation). 5
Garibaldi s Shirt: Fashion and the (Trans)Formation of Revolutionary Bodies, 1848-1865, in Cultures of Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, eds. Helena Toth and Charlotte Lerg (in preparation). Good Soldiers, All? Democracy and Discrimination in the Boy Scouts of America, 1941-1945, in More than Victims: War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars, eds. Mischa Honeck and James Marten (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Why We Fight: German American Revolutionaries Confront Slavery and Secession, in Secession and War Come to Washington, eds. Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon (Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, forthcoming). Uprooted Emancipators: Transatlantic Abolitionism and the Politics of Belonging, in The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, eds. Jörg Nagler, Marcus Gräser, and Don Doyle (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 109-126. Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany, in Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914, eds. Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013), 153-168. A Cheer for Free Labor Cotton: Transatlantic Antislavery Economies and Mid-Nineteenth Century Reform, in American Economies, eds. Eva Bösenberg, Reinhard Isensee, and Martin Klepper (Heidelberg: Winter, 2012), 181-198. An Unexpected Alliance: August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the Abolitionist Movement in Cincinnati, in Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange, eds. Larry A. Greene und Anke Ortlepp (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 17-36. Edward P. Jones, The Known World, in Zweiundzwanzig amerikanische Romane aus dem neuen Jahrhundert: Literaturkritische Essays zur Einführung, eds. Dietmar Schloss and Heiko Jakubzik (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009), 189-198. Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, in Zweiundzwanzig amerikanische Romane, 167-180. Towards a More Fortunate Land : Christoph Daniel Ebeling and the American Republic, in Transatlantic Negotiations, eds. Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke (Heidelberg: Winter, 2007), 41-59. Encyclopedic Entries Americanization, America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History, ed. Edward J. Blum, vol. 1 (Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner s Sons, 2016), 51-56. Lincoln and the German Americans. The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia, eds. Paul Finkelman and Martin J. Hershock (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008), 223-224. Amerikanische Studierende in Heidelberg. Wissenschaftsatlas Heidelberg: 625 Jahre wissenschaftliche und räumliche Beziehungen der Universität Heidelberg, ed. Peter Meusburger (with Peter Meusburger; Knittlingen, 2011), 224-28. Country Clubs, USA-Lexikon: Schlüsselbegriffe zu Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kultur, Geschichte und zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, eds. Christof Mauch and Rüdiger Wersich (Erich Schmidt Verlag: Berlin, 2013), 290-91. Scouts, USA-Lexikon, 971-72. Summer Camps, USA-Lexikon, 1029-30. 6
Reviews Lincoln s Tragic Pragmatism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). John Burt. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 64/4 (December 2016): 470-472. The German Love Affair with American Empire, German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism, and the United States, 1776-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Jens-Uwe-Guettel. Diplomatic History 38/5 (October 2014): 1158-1161. America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America (New York: Palgrave, 2012). Axel Körner, Nicola Miller, and Adam Smith, eds. Journal of American 100 (2013), 526-27. The Borders of Integration. Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870-1924 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2011). Brian McCook. LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 10.4 (2013), 123-125. The Man with the Branded Hand. The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist (Yardley, Pennsylvania: Westholme, 2011). Alvin F. Oickle. Journal of Southern History 78 (2012), 980-81. The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Andre M. Fleche. North Carolina Historical Review (April 2012), 213-14. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Gordon Wood. Das Historisch-Politische Buch 59 (2010), 593-594. Geschichte Nordamerikas: Eine Einführung (Köln: UTB, 2008). Volker Depkat. H-Soz-Kult. 25.02.2009. Deutsch-Amerikaner im Ersten Weltkrieg: US-Politik und nationale Identitäten im Mittleren Westen (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007). Katja Wüstenbecker. Historische Zeitschrift 287 (2009), 801-803. Journalism Trump und Clinton können Amerika nicht einen, Tagesspiegel Causa (Online), 24. Juli 2016. Deutsche Unerwünscht, Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 21, 2015. Zelten für den Frieden: Die globale Pfadfinderei in der Zwischenkriegszeit, Weltweit vor Ort 2 (2014): 10-12. Die Erinnerung an 9/11 ist ein relativ dünnes Band, Interview for Deutschlandradio, September 5, 2011. Lectures Are You a Crusader? Cold War Citizenship in the Boy Scouts of America, Society for the History of Youth and Childhood (SHYC) Eighth Biennial Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 25, 2015. The Power of Innocence: The Boy Scouts of America and the Infantilization of Empire, Lecture at the University of Jena (Prof. Dr. Jörg Nagler), May 6, 2015. Boyification: How Scouting Fetishized Boys, Rejuvenated Men, and Infantilized Empire, Lecture at the Humboldt University, Berlin (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler), May 5, 2015. Burying the Hatchet: The Boy Scouts and the Infantilization of Peace, 129 th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, January 4, 2015. Burying the Hatchet: The Boy Scouts and the Infantilization of Peace, Conference Subversive Networks: Agents of Change in International Organizations, 1920-1960, Heidelberg University, December 5, 2014. 7
Good Soldiers, All? Democracy and Discrimination in the Boy Scouts of America, 1941-1945, Conference War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars, GHI Washington, June 5, 2014. For the Preservation of German Honor and Manhood : Gender and the German-American War for the Union, Lecture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Prof. Dr. Karen Hagemann), November 8, 2013. Garibaldi s Shirt: Fashion and Nationalist Ferment in the Civil War Era, Meeting of the Junior Research Group Cultures of Revolution in the Long Nineteenth Century, Munich, April 24, 2013. The Boy and the Businessman: Rotary International s Youth Work in the 1920s, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 11, 2013. Empire at the Campfire: A Global History of the Boy Scouts of America, Lecture at the University of Augsburg, (Prof. Dr. Philipp Gassert) Februar 7, 2013. A German Blueprint for a New South: Karl Heinzen and the Radical Democracy, Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Mobile, Alabama, November 3, 2012. Men of Principle: The German American War for the Union, Symposium Creating an Army to Preserve the Nation. United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington DC, May 4, 2012. An Empire of Youth: A Global History of the Boy Scouts of America, Lecture at the Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech University, Alexandria, April 24, 2012. Campfire Diplomats: American Boy Scouts at the 1933 World Scout Jamboree, 126 th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 6, 2012. Uprooted Emancipators: Transatlantic Abolitionism, the American Civil War, and the Politics of Belonging. Conference The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War: A Global History, University of Jena, September 16, 2011. Why Continue to be the Humble Maid? The Transnational Abolitionist Sisterhood of Mathilde Franziska Anneke and Mary Booth. Konferenz German and German-American Dimensions of the Civil War, University of Wisconsin- Madison, March 4, 2011. Freemen of all Nations, Bestir Yourselves! Exile, Emancipation, and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Age of the American Civil War. 125th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 9, 2011. Of Murderers and Martyrs: Felice Orsini s Transnational Afterlife and the Radicalization of America. Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland, June 1, 2010. The Boons of Free-Labor Cotton: Transatlantic Antislavery Economies and Mid-Nineteenth Century Reform. Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies 2010, Berlin, May 29, 2010. Why We Fight: German-American Revolutionists Confront Slavery and Secession. Symposium Secession and War Come to Washington. United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington DC, May 7, 2010. Exile, Emancipation and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Age of the American Civil War. Conference Transatlantic Alliances and Networks in a Global Context. European Union Center of Excellence, University of Wisconsin- Madison, April 30, 2010. Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany. Conference Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Century. GHI Washington, March 21, 2009. Immigrants and Slaves: Abolitionist Protest Across Ethnic Boundaries in the United States, 1850-1866. English Department, Heidelberg University, May 22, 2007. 8
Antislavery Democracies: Interethnic Contacts and Coalitions in the Abolitionist Movement. Lecture at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands, April 24, 2007. An Unexpected Alliance: August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the Abolition Movement in Cincinnati. Conference Crossovers: African-Americans and Germany, University of Münster, March 24, 2006. Free-Soilers and Forty-Eighters: The Anglo- and German-American Campaign Against Slavery in Western Texas, 1854-56. South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting 2006, Columbia, South Carolina, March 4, 2006. The International Legacy of the Forty-Eighters. Lecture at Rutgers University, New Jersey, History Department, February 24, 2006. Investigating America: Christoph Daniel Ebeling and the Genesis of American Studies in Germany. Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies 2005, Frankfurt, May 20, 2005. 'Towards a more fortunate Land : Christoph Daniel Ebeling and the American Republic as an Example. Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Society of Early Americanists, Alexandria, Virginia, March 31, 2005. In Pursuit of Freedom : African-, Anglo- and German-American Alliances in the Abolitionist Movement. Spring Academy, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, March 1, 2005. Conferences and Panels Organized Historians and the World The World of History Positions, Purposes, and Politics in the 21 st Century, Symposium at the GHI Washington, April 1-2, 2016 (with Jan C. Jansen). The U.S. South in the Black Atlantic: Transnational Histories of the Jim Crow South since 1865, GHI Washington, June 4-6 2015 (with Elisabeth Engel and Nicholas Grant). Little Diplomats: Organizing Youth and Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century, 129 th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New York, January 4, 2015. War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars, GHI Washington, June 5-7 2014 (with James Marten, Andreas Gestrich and Arndt Weinrich). Adolescent Ambassadors: 20 th -Century Youth Organizations and International Relations, GHI Washington, March 23-24 2012 (with Gabriel N. Rosenberg). Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries, GHI Washington, March 19-21, 2009 (with Martin Klimke und Anne Kuhlmann). Courses Taught Heidelberg University: Spring 2007 Fall 2007 Crusade Against Slavery: The Abolitionists The Old South: Myth, Memory, and History Fall 2008 Adolescent Nation: The United States of America, 1815-1848 Spring 2009 The American Civil War in Transnational Perspective 9
Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Environmental History: Concepts, Problems, and Practices The Age of Atlantic Revolutions Fall 2010 Youth and Nation in the United States, 1900-1945 Humboldt University Berlin: Spring 2015 Citizen Warriors: Paramilitary Cultures in U.S. History since 1850 10