Please join us for our annual Obama Lecture on Thanksgiving, where we will highlight outstanding work in Transnational American Studies and show appreciation for the work of young scholars by awarding the Obama Dissertation Prize as well as the Hans Galinsky Memorial Prize for student and graduate theses.
Everyone welcome!
Please see the flyer below for details or download it here.
The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies regularly welcomes internationally renowned scholars who contribute to our courses and research program. We invite you to join us in exploring current research trends and to meet leading people in American Studies and beyond.
You can find the poster for the event series here.
Induction ceremony for new Junior Fellows to JGU’s Gutenberg Academy Honors Program on April 22, 2024 includes Obama Institute PhD student Carolin Jesussek, M.Ed.
The Obama Institute proudly congratulates Carolin Jesussek, M.Ed. to her new roles as Junior Fellow of the Gutenberg Academy Honors Program and speaker of the group of newly inducted junior fellows. Her PhD project “Uncanny Environments: Material World-Making in Contemporary North American Gothic Literature” is supervised by Professor Dr. Oliver Scheiding, who also attended the ceremony last Monday.
You can read more about Monday’s event, the new junior fellows and their projects, and the Gutenberg Academy Honors Program in JGU’s press release (in German).
Carolin Jesussek, M.Ed. on April 22 next to the poster describing her dissertation project; photo provided by Oliver Scheiding.
Photo credit header image: Stefan F. Sämmer Source: JGU Press Release
