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Angela Zimmerman

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Angela Zimmerman (born Andrew Zimmerman) is a professor of German history at George Washington University.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Zimmerman earned a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1998, an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge in 1991, a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in History from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1990.[4]

Career

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Zimmerman is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany, Alabama in Africa, and several peer-reviewed articles. She edited The Civil War in the United States, a collection of writings on the American Civil War by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and others.

Publications (selection)

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Monographs

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  • Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2001) ISBN 0226983420.
  • Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (University of Princeton Press, 2010) ISBN 9780691123622.

Articles (selection)

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  • “Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory.” History of the Present 8 (Fall 2018): 140-176.
  • “A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee Expedition to German Togo and the Transnational Origins of African Cotton Growers,” American Historical Review 110 (December 2005).
  • “Looking Beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 385-411.
  • “Selin, Pore, and Emil Stephan in the Bismarck Archipelago: A ‘Fresh and Joyful Tale’ of the Origin of Fieldwork,” Journal of the Pacific Arts Association 21/22 (2000): 69-84.
  • “German Anthropology and the ‘Natural Peoples’: The Global Context of Colonial Discourse,” The European Studies Journal, Special Issue: German Colonialism: Another Sonderweg? 16 (1999): 95-112.
  • “Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow’s Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany,” Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429.
  • “Geschichtslose und Schriftlose Völker in Spreeathen: Anthropologie als Kritik der Geschichtswissenschaft im Kaiserreich,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 47 (1999): 197-210.
  • “Legislating Being: Words and Things in Bentham’s Panopticon,” The European Legacy 3 (1998): 72-83.
  • “The Ideology of the Machine and The Spirit of the Factory: Remarx on Babbage and Ure,” Cultural Critique 37 (Fall 1997): 5-29.

References

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  1. ^ "Angela Zimmerman". gwu.edu. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  2. ^ "Andrew Zimmerman". toynbeeprize.org. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  3. ^ "Past Distinguished Speakers". psu.edu. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  4. ^ "Andrew Zimmerman CV". George Washington University. 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-08-21.