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249 ABOUT THE CO NTRIBUTORS THOMAS ADAM is professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington where he teaches German and modern transatlantic history. He has published on topics such as philanthropy, intercultural transfers, modern German history and German-American history. His most recent publications include Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to the 1930s (2009); Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe’s Germany: The Travel Journals of Anna and George Ticknor (with Gisela Mettele, 2009); Stipendienstiftungen an deutschen Universitäten, 1800 bis 1950 (2008); and Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, 3 vols. (2005). DIETER K. BUSE is Professor Emeritus of history at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. His study The Regions of Germany (2005) complements his edited work, Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People and Culture, 1871–1990, 2 vols. (1998). He co-edited Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman (2001), Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies (2000), Hard Lessons: Mine Mill in the Canadian Union Movement (1995); and edited Parteiagitation und Wahlkreisvertretung: Eine Dokumentation über Friedrich Ebert und sein Reichstagswahlkreis Elberfeld-Barmen 1910–1918 (1975). ANDREW LEES is professor of history at the Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he teaches courses on the intellectual and social history of modern Europe and the United States. His most important publications are Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought (1985); Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany (2002); and Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914 (with Lynn Hollen Lees, 2007). NILS H. ROEMER is professor of Jewish studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His areas of expertise are Jewish cultural and intellectual history and popular culture and cultural memory in particular. He is the author of Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between Contributors 250 History and Faith (2005) and numerous articles on modern Jewish history. His most recent publications is German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms (2010). JAMES ROSS-NAZZAL is the discipline chair and professor of history in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Houston Community College–Southeast, where he offers courses in U.S. and Mexican American history. His recent publications include A Pax Americana: The U.S. Veto in the United Nations Security Council on the ‘Question of Palestine’ 1972–2007 (2008); and “Where is the ‘Middle East’” and “Israel’s Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence ” in History in Dispute: The Middle East since 1945 (2003). ASHLEY SIDES earned his B.A. in European studies at the University of Oklahoma in 2001 and his M.A. in history at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2008. His M.A. thesis is entitled “What Americans Said about Saxony, and What This Says about Them: Interpreting Travel Writings of the Ticknors and Other Privileged Americans, 1800–1850.” He taught various history and government classes at Fort Worth Christian High School from 2008 to 2010. FRANK TROMMLER is Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1970 to 2007. From 1995 to 2003 he directed the Humanities Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington. His areas of expertise are nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature and culture, German-American relations, and cultural politics. Among his numerous publications are Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik (with J. Hermand , 1978); America and the Germans (1985); The German-American Encounter (2001); and Weimars transatlantischer Mäzen: die Lincoln-Stiftung 1927–1934 (with J. Reulecke and M. Richardson, 2008). WHITNEY WALTON is professor of history at Purdue University . She is the author of Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, 1890–1970 (2010), and Eve’s Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (2000). Her publications also include many articles and book chapters on modern French social and cultural history and Franco-American cultural relations. ...

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