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My name is Martin Klimke and I am an associate professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.
In addition, I am an associated researcher at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg and in Transatlantic Cultural History (TCH) at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
My research focuses on the intersection of political and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on diplomatic and transnational history. The increasingly global cultural, political, and military presence of the U.S., especially after World War II, as well as the country’s complex entanglement with other forces of globalization, are at the center of my scholarly interests.
My latest book is a co-authored history of the experience of African American soldiers in Germany in the 20th century entitled A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). > more
I am currently working on the nuclear crisis and the Cold War of the 1980s, and am writing a transnational biography of Petra Kelly, international peace activist and co-founder of the German Green Party.
CURRENT COURSES:
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A World Transformed?: The Global "Sixties"
(NYUAD: Spring 2012, more)
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U.S. History in Transnational and Global Perspective II:
America and the World since 1898
(NYUAD: Spring 2012, more / research guide)
- Morning in America:
Ronald Reagan, the Nuclear Crisis, and the Cold War of the 1980s
(NYU: Fall 2012, more)
- The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and the U.S. Military in the 20th Century
(NYU: Fall 2012, more)
- U.S. History in Transnational and Global Perspective I:
America and the World until 1898
(NYUAD: Spring 2013, more)
- Peace
(NYUAD: Spring 2013, more)
See here for upcoming talks & events / galleries / recent conferences.
CURRENT PROJECTS:
The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
 A research project and digital archive exploring between the military service of African American GIs in Germany and the advancement of civil rights in the U.S. through a comprehensive database of documents, images, videos and oral history interviews.
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 Photography Exhibition "The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany"
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The Nuclear Crisis:
Cold War Cultures and the Politics of Peace and Security, 1975-1990
 A research project and digital archive devoted to the European and North American debates about nuclear armament during the 1970/80s, combining political history with a study of protest cultures as well as discussions of nuclear death in popular culture.
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An American in Deutschland: Photographs by Leonard Freed
 An exhibition of images by Magnum photographer Leonard Freed (1929-2006) exploring Germany’s postwar society and identity starting from the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 until October 1990 as a collage of photos alongside Freed's diary-style annotations.
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RECENT BOOKS:
- with Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach and Marianne Zepp, eds.:
"Entrüstet Euch!"
Nuklearkrise, Nato-Doppelbeschluss und Friedensbewegung
(Paderborn: Schöningh, forthcoming fall 2012)
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- with Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Joachim Scharloth and Laura Wong, eds.:
The Establishment Responds:
Power, Politics and Protest since 1945
(New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
> more / foreword & introduction (full text)
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- with Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth:
Between Prague Spring and French May:
Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2011)
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- with Maria Höhn:
A Breath of Freedom:
The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany
(New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
> more / introduction (full text)
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- with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach, eds.:
Changing the World, Changing the Self:
Political Protest and Collective Identities in 1960/70s West Germany and the United States
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2010; paperback forthcoming fall 2012)
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- The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and
the United States in the Global Sixties
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010; Kindle edition/ paperback 2011)
> more / introduction (full text)
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with Joachim Scharloth, eds.:
1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte
(Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2007 / Bonn: Bundeszentrale
für politische Bildung, Schriftenreihe Bd. 697, 2008)
> more / table of contents / introduction
For reviews of the various publications, please click here.
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