Grants

Selected research, teaching, conference, and project funding.

2024-2026

Grenzenlos Nachhaltig: Lehre für Nachhaltigkeit regional vernetzen

Funded by Lake Constance Arts & Sciences Association / Wissenschaftsverbund Vierländerregion Bodensee.

Grant for the project on regional networking for sustainability in teaching.

2024

International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies

Funded by Austrian-American Partnership Fund.

Grant supporting collaboration and cultural exchange between Austrian and U.S. institutions and organizations.

2023-2027

Out-of-Field Teaching: Effects, Challenges, and Potentials

Funded by BMBWF Bildungsinnovation braucht Bildungsforschung (B3), Austria.

Project contribution focused on the subproject “Qualität und Wirkung einer Nachqualifizierungsmaßnahme von fachfremd Unterrichtenden.”

2020-2022

The United States: Past, Present and Future Visions

Funded by Austrian-American Partnership Fund / US Embassy Vienna.

Funding for the International Teacher Academy at PH Vorarlberg, Feldkirch.

2021

Climate Change Theater Action 2021

Funded by Erasmus+ Small Scale Partnership Fund.

Funding for an international drama workshop with Fulbright Specialist Shana Bestock at PH Vorarlberg, Feldkirch.

2021

Feminisms in American Studies in/and Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here?

Funded by European Association for American Studies (EAAS).

Support for the international digital conference at the University of Warsaw.

2017

AR in American Studies Research Project

Funded by DAAD.

Support for research at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newberry Library, and for ASA Annual Meeting presentation activities.

2017-2019

Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies

Funded by Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

Funding for an international junior researcher conference and publication project.

2017

Transnational Feminism and/in American Studies

Funded by European Association for American Studies (EAAS).

Support for the international conference at the University of Lausanne and the launch of an e-journal.

2017

Biopolitics in Transnational American Cultures

Funded by Office for Equality of Opportunity, Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Regensburg.

Grant to employ a student research assistant for the project.

2016

Biopolitics in American Transnational Literatures and Cultures

Funded by ARS Program of the University of Regensburg and Bavarian-American Academy.

Book project and submission of a large grant proposal.

2016

Academic Research Sabbatical for “Biopolitics in Transnational American Cultures”

Funded by University of Regensburg.

Competitive academic research sabbatical.

2016

Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Transnational Visual Culture Studies (TVC)

Funded by Regensburger Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth and Bavarian-American Academy.

Support for the international conference at the University of Regensburg.

2016

Young Voices in American Studies

Funded by Bavarian-American Academy (BAA).

Support for the ERA Graduate Student Conference 2016 in Munich.

2015-2018

1945-2015: German-American Encounters in Bavaria

Funded by US Embassy to Germany.

Funding for an international conference at the University of Regensburg and a subsequent book project.

2014

Conference Presentation Grant

Funded by Office for Equality of Opportunity, Board of the Philosophical Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Regensburg.

Grant for presentation at the EAAS conference in The Hague, the Netherlands.

2013-2017

9/11 Transnational Memorial Mapping

Funded by Bavarian-American Academy, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford, and University of Notre Dame.

Large digital humanities project with archival research.

2012-2013

Yellow Fever in American Literature and Culture of the Nineteenth Century

Funded by DAAD and the Free State of Bavaria.

Habilitation project with research and presentation activities in Puerto Rico and paid leave to complete the Habilitation.

2013

War and Peace-Studies: WW II Commemoration

Funded by DAAD.

Funding for a publication project and special issue of the American Studies Journal.

2012

Conference Presentation Grant

Funded by Office for Equality of Opportunity, Board of the Philosophical Department for Language, Literature and Culture, University of Regensburg.

Grant for presentation at the EAAS conference in Izmir, Turkey.

2011-2012

Habilitation Grant

Funded by Free State of Bavaria.

Grant supporting equality of opportunity for women in research and teaching.

2003

Research Grant for Archival and Museum Research

Funded by Association of the Friends of the University of Regensburg.

Supported research at the Japanese American National Museum, the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, the San Jose Museum of Art, CSU Sacramento Special Archives and Japanese American Digitization Project, Cornell University Special Archives, and the Smithsonian Institution.

2003

Postgraduate Grant

Funded by Bavarian-American Academy (BAA).

2003

Fulbright American Studies Summer Institute

Funded by German-American Fulbright Commission.

Fulbright support for the American Studies Summer Institute, Amherst, Massachusetts.

2000

PhD Scholarship

Funded by State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

1999

M.A. Thesis Scholarship

Funded by John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin.

1994-1995

Study Scholarship

Funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Scholarship to study at the University of California, Davis.

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