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  • Contributors

PETER M. McISAAC (pmcisaac@umich.edu) is an associate professor of German at the University of Michigan. He works on literature and museums, popular anatomy exhibitions, and digital humanities. His publications include Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting and Exhibiting the German Past Museums, Film, and Musealization (with Gabriele Müller).

CHRISTOPHER GEISSLER (ch.geissler@cantab.net) received his PhD in German in 2013 from the University of Cambridge (Jesus College). He has held postdoctoral posts at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany, and at the University of Calgary.

JENS-UWE GUETTEL (jug17@psu.edu) is an associate professor of German and History at the Pennsylvania State University. Publications include German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism, and the United States (Cambridge), and "'The democratic revolution is marching:' The Contingencies of Political Change in Germany and Prussia on the Eve of the First World War," Journal of Modern History (2019).

ANDREW LEES (alees@rutgers.edu) is a Distinguished Professor of History emeritus at the Camden Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has written books and essays in the areas of both German intellectual history and the history of cities. His most recent book is The City: A World History (Oxford University Press, 2015).

JAKUB GORTAT (jakub.gortat@uni.lodz.pl) is an assistant professor at the University of Lodz, Institute of German Philology, Department of German Studies. His interests concern the German politics of memory, the intersections of film, history, and politics in Germany and Austria, and German-Polish relations after 1945, including the problem of German cultural goods in Polish libraries and their restitution.

MATTHIAS MÜLLER (mm2679@cornell.edu) is a doctoral candidate in German studies at Cornell University. His dissertation "The Loser's Edge: Writing from the Vantage Point of the Vanquished, 1918–1945" shows how the experience of defeat became a unique source of epistemological insight in literature and historiography.

MARY LINDEMANN (mlindemann@miami.edu) is a professor and chair in the Department of History at the University of Miami and works on early modern history. Her current research involves a study of the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War. She is the current president of the German Studies Association and president-elect of the American Historical Association.

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