New Editorial Team
The HCA Graduate Blog has a new editorial team. With the coming summer term, a new generation takes over the Blog as an open and interdisciplinary platform for young scholars in American Studies.
The HCA Graduate Blog was launched in 2018 by Natalie Rauscher, Maren Schäfer, Andreas Balz, and Aline Schmidt to offer a glimpse of the work done in the field of American Studies and to ignite discussion and scientific debate among researchers across disciplinary boundaries. Since then, ninety articles from a broad variety of fields like History, Literary Studies, Religious Studies, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Geography, and Linguistics have been posted. Over the last seven years, the HCA Graduate Blog became a well-established platform in American Studies with an international audience.
New Editorial Team
“Our thanks go to the founding editors. The HCA graduate blog is a great opportunity for young scholars in American Studies to present their work to a broader audience. We’re looking forward to many contributions to showcase ongoing research and the diversity of American Studies.”
The coming summer term marks a new chapter for the HCA Graduate Blog. Marcus Dietrich, Jonas Faust, Richard Lange, Mehdi Sejdiu, and Nele Thomann take over to continue the blog as an open and interdisciplinary platform for young scholars in American Studies. Learn more about the editors here. Coming from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in Literature, History, Politics, Economics, and International Relations, the new editors are looking forward to continue and further develop the blog at a time, when it is more important than ever to understand and explain the United States and America.
Call for Contributions
The HCA graduate blog is published on a bi-weekly basis throughout the semester. Contributions related to American Studies and the United States from all disciplines are welcome. Early career scholars, doctoral and graduate students are especially encouraged to contribute. The HCA graduate blog is peer-reviewed and ISSN-listed.
Contributions should be up to 2,000 words and are accepted on a rolling basis. If you would like to contribute, send an inquiry and/or short abstract of max. 200 words to the editors at: hcagrads@hca.uni-heidelberg.de. For more information on the blog and the author guidelines, see https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/.
About the Heidelberg Center for American Studies
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) is a central research and teaching institution at Heidelberg University, Germany’s oldest university, that looks at the United States from many disciplinary perspectives.
The HCA currently hosts two PhD Programs. The PhD in American Studies is a structured, three-year English-language program open to national and international students from all kinds of research areas, offering a multi-disciplinary curriculum. The second program that began in the fall of 2017 is a Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It focuses on the themes of Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics.
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Looking forward to many more interesting articles on here! Glad to see the blog is going to continue!