Welcome to the Obama Institute
for Transnational American Studies!

The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers a dynamic and wide-ranging program in both research and teaching for all students interested in topics related to the Americas in a global context.

With a special focus on interculturality, transnationalism, and interdisciplinarity, our expertise lies in the fields of Early American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Life Writing/Life Sciences, Political & Intellectual History, Film & Media Studies, Religion and American Culture, and Materiality.

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Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
University of Mainz
Jakob-Welder-Weg 20
55128 Mainz
Germany
+49 6131 39-22357
+49 6131 39-29097
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Jan 28 – TPC Workshop XVI: Magazines and Mobility 🗓

Magazines and Mobility (Workshop XVI) Research Group "Transnational Periodical Cultures" Jan 28, 2026, 10am - 4pmGermersheim CampusRoom A.119 Please find below the program for workshop XVI on “Magazines and Mobility”. You can download the flyer here. For further...

Jan 22 – Guest Lecture: Vanishing Oil in John Joseph Mathews’s SUNDOWN (1934) 🗓

Guest Lecture by Jannis Buschky, M.A. (University of Konstanz) Vanishing Oil in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934) January 22, 2026, 6-8pm, P 6 (Philosophicum) When Osage writer John Joseph Mathews wrote his novel Sundown (1934) about the Osage oil boom in the early...

Jan 20 – Guest Lecture: The Literary World According to MUNSEY’S – Epistemic Style in US Mass Magazines around 1900 🗓

Guest Lecture by Alexander Starre (John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin) The Literary World According to Munsey’s:Epistemic Style in US Mass Magazines around 1900 January 20, 2026, 16.15-17.45, 02.102, Philo II (Jakob-Welder-Weg 20) During the magazine revolution of...

Happy Holidays from the team! 🗓

Pressemitteilung: 30-Jahr-Feier USA-Bibliothek 🗓

Von rechts nach links: Generalkonsul Brian Heath, Dr. Monika Hagenmaier, Dr. Nora Kuster, Dr. Michael Hansen, Prof. Dr. Schäfer ©Universitätsbibliothek Mainz Am Donnerstag, 20. November 2025, luden die Universitätsbibliothek und das Obama Institute for Transnational...

Dec 16 – Guest Lecture: Getting Their Word Out – Native Rhetorical Strategies in the School Press of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School 🗓

Guest Lecture by Christianna Stavroudis, M.Sc. (Bonn) Getting Their Word Out:Native Rhetorical Strategies in the School Press of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School December 16, 2025, 6-8pm, P 6 (Philosophicum) Deemed the “disciples of Gutenberg” by school...