Lecturer Dr. Georg Wolff
Contact
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Akademie der Wissenschaften des Landes Baden-Württemberg
Karlstraße 4
D-69117 Heidelberg
Tel: +49 (0) 62 21 / 54 - 3519
E-Mail: georg.wolff@hadw-bw.de
Research project
Kurt Klein und Gerda Weissmann-Klein: Jüdisches Exil in den Vereinigten Staaten
About Dr. Georg Wolff
Georg Wolff studied history and political sciences at the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty in 2021 with his project „Conservative Mujahideen. Young Americans for Freedom's Crusade for Conservatism“, for which he was awarded the Ruprecht-Karls Prize in 2022. Since 2020, he has been working as a research associate at the Curt Engelhorn Chair for American History. Before that, he worked as a research associate at the DFG Research Training Group ,,Authority and Trust'' at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
Research interests
- Digital Humanities
- Political ideological history of the USA
- Authority and Trust in political institutions in the US-American society
- Game Studies/Ludology - Meta history in video games
- Narratology in historic sciences
Publications
"Civil Rights & Civil Wrongs.“ How the Right Responds to Demands by Civil Rights Activists. HCA Graduate Blog (ISSN: 2628-278X)., 12.01.2022.
„You Can't Put a Price Tag on Freedom.“ Challenging East-West Trade Policy in the 1960s. HCA Graduate Blog (ISSN: 2628-278X).,06.05.2020.
Courses
Source exercise “I´m tired of reading history. Now I want to make it!” Quellen zu Sozialen Bewegungen in den USA, winter term 2023/24.
Proseminar „Native Americans in der Nordamerikanischen Geschichte“, winter term 2022/23.
Proseminar „Die Amerikanische Verfassung“, winter term 2021/22.
Proseminar „Der Amerikanische Konservatismus seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg“, winter term 2020/20.
Source exercise „Whither America? Die ‚Langen Sechziger‘ als wegweisende Epoche der Amerikanischen Geschichte“, summer term 2019.