my name is Martin Klimke and I am a research fellow at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Current projects are:

• African American Civil Rights and Germany, 1945-1989
  (Exhibition / Research Project / Conference I & II)
  
  
• SEMTRACKS: Political Tracker U.S. Elections / America after 9/11 (in the news)
  
  
• 1968 in Japan, Germany, and the U.S. (conference)
  
  

For a list of forthcoming talks and events, please see here.

Recent and forthcoming publications include, among others:

• "The African American Civil Rights Struggle and Germany, 1945-1989"
  GHI Bulletin (Fall 2008), 91-106 (full text)
  
  
• "The Word War: 'Yes, He Did' -
  How Obama won the (rhetorical) battle for the White House"
  International Relations and Security Network (ISN), December 2008 (full text)
  
  
• "1968 als transnationales Ereignis" (full text)
  Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 14-15, 2008, 22-27.
  
  
• The Other Alliance -
  Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the U.S., 1962-72
  (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009)
  Click here for further information.
  

with Joachim Scharloth, eds.: 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77 (New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) With Afterword by Tom Hayden & Online Teaching/Research Guide. Click here for further information or introduction (full text).
with Joachim Scharloth, eds.: 1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte (Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2007 / Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Schriftenreihe Bd. 697, 2008) Click here for information, table of contents or introduction.

Best wishes,
Martin Klimke