Dr. Katharina Weygold

I am a postdoctoral researcher and wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (lecturer/assistant professor) in Professor Axel Schäfer’s team. A scholar of twentieth-century U.S. history and culture, my expertise and research interests include Black internationalism, African American history, U.S. imperialism, public space, and memorialization. Before joining the Obama Institute, I served as Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University.

In my dissertation, which I completed at Brown, I explored African American women’s perspectives of Haiti in their historical writing, activism, journalism, and performances. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources and oral histories, I argued that Haiti constituted a key site in African American women’s struggles against racism and U.S. imperialism during the twentieth century. My doctoral research received funding from the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture at Duke University, the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in the Netherlands as well as Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities.

Current Research

My current research traces transatlantic exchanges surrounding public space, memorialization, and public memory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores how U.S. and German ideas and practices in this context have influenced each other and how the movement of people, memory, and monuments across the Atlantic in turn have shaped ideas and practices.

Contact

Dr. Katharina Weygold
Philosophicum II
Jakob-Welder-Weg 20
Room 02.215

Phone: +49-6131-39-30733
weygoldk@uni-mainz.de

Office hours
Tue, 4:30–6 pm
room 02.215
(or, if preferred, via Microsoft Teams)
or by appointment

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