Andreas Huebner

• Andreas Huebner
• (Ph.D. Candidate)

• International Graduate Centre
• for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
• Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
• 35394 Giessen
• Germany

• E-Mail: Andreas.Huebner[@]gcsc.uni-giessen.de

10. 2009 - Present: Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen

• Ph.D. Candidate in History at the GCSC

08. 2004 - 05. 2005: Tulane University, New Orleans

• Non-Degree Student in the Field of American Studies

10. 2002 - 09. 2009: Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena

• First State Examination in History and English
• Continuing Studies in German Language and Literature Studies
• Certificate in the Field of Media Didactics

• Migration, Forced Migration, Slavery and Creolisation Marked by Global Crisis

• The Historical Area of the Lower Mississippi Delta as a Fracture Zone of Globalisation, 1720-1820
• Academic Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hubertus Büschel / Prof. Dr. Jörg Nagler


• From 1720 onwards, the so-called German Coast of Louisiana was settled by indentured servants. While originating from various regions of nowadays Germany and different places all over Europe, for instance from Alsace, Hungary or Switzerland, these migrants were altogether marked as Germans by early French census-takers. They soon became to be known as the Germans of Louisiana. As such they were to be incorporated into the historiographies of the Creoles of colonial Louisiana.


• Taking this observation as a starting point, my thesis aims at exploring the everyday life and the cultural history of these migrants at the German Coast. In addition, linkages will be drawn from their local histories to global processes of transformation. Most significantly, the failure of John Law's Company of the Indies, the Seven Years War, and the Haitian Revolution will be considered. Thus, I hope to sharpen our understanding of the formation of the Creole culture in Louisiana, its social hierarchies, and its construction of identities. More generally, I hope to provide a reconceptualization of Creole cultures, hierarchies and identities in the Circum-Caribbean from 1720 to 1820.

• 'Famous Leader of the German Colony Here?' - die Biographie des J. Hanno Deiler und ihre Implikationen für die deutsch-amerikanische Gemeinschaft von New Orleans. Frankfurt, etc.: Lang, 2009.

• From 'We Media' to 'We Influence'? Students Summer School E-Journal 2007 (Team 1): http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/op/wss2007.

• Morgan, Philip (ed.): African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee. Athens, London, 2010. In: Southern Historian 32 (2011): 61-63.


• Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, and Patrick Manning (eds.): Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches. Leiden, 2010. In: Kult_online 27 (2011): http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/wps/pgn/home/KULT_online/27-10/ .


• Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym, and John Savage (eds.): Napoleon's Atlantic: The Impact of Napoleonic Empire in the Atlantic World. Boston, Leiden 2010. In: Itinerario 35:1 (2011): 140-141.


• Dawdy, Shannon Lee: Building the Devil's Empire. French Colonial New Orleans. Chicago 2008. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 01.10.2010: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=12051.


• Boucher, Philip P.: France and the American Tropics to 1700. Tropics of Discontent? Baltimore 2008. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.09.2010: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=11454.


• Pritchard, James: In Search of Empire. The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. Cambridge 2004. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.09.2010: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=11454.


• Sublette, Ned: The World that Made New Orleans. From Spanish Silver to Congo Square. Chicago 2008. In: Kult_online, 22 (2010): http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/wps/pgn/home/KULT_online/22-6/.


• Bade, James N. (ed.): Im Schatten zweier Kriege. Deutsche und Österreicher in Neuseeland im 20. Jahrhundert. Bremen 2005. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.10.2008: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2008-4-069.

• [Conference Report] Postgraduiertenforum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien. 04.11.2011-06.11.2011, Gießen. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.01.2012: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=4068.
  
  [Teaching Resource] Lincoln Pathfinder: Internet Resources on Studying and Teaching Abraham Lincoln. American Studies Journal 53 (2009): http://asjournal.zusas.uni-halle.de/173.html.

03.2012

Raumkonstruktionen zur Côte des Allemands:
Vermessungs- und Abbildungstechniken im kolonialen und territorialen Louisiana.

• Workshop International History at
  Crisis and Crisis Management in US History,
  GAAS - Annual Conference of Historians.
  University Trier.

09.2011

Vermessen, Ordnen, Kartographieren:
Raumkonstruktionen und Möglichkeitsräume im kolonialen Louisiana.

• Crossing National Borders: People, Goods, Capital, and Ideas,
  IX. International Summer School of the Research Academy Leipzig.
  Leipzig University.
  

07.2011

"The Season before Spring": Katrina,
Mardi Gras and other Disasters in New Orleans History.

• Paper and Discussion in Cooperation with Producer and Director Marie Devautour.
  Forum International, JLU Giessen.
  

04.2011

Migration in Colonial Louisiana: French Officers,
"German" Settlers and the Making of the Côte des Allemands, 1720-1820.

• German Historical Institute.
  Washington, DC.
  

09.2010

New Perspectives on Colonial Louisiana: Migration, Forced Migration,
Creolization, and Slavery in Times of Global Crisis, 1720-1820.

• Summer Academy of Atlantic History (SAAH).
  Bayreuth University.
  

03.2010

"Ces Allemands sont d'ailleurs très laborieux":
Narratives of Crisis, Progress and Success in Colonial Louisiana.

• HGSA at LSU, Graduate History Conference.
  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
  

02.2010

From Engagé to Habitant to Large-Scale Slaveholder?
Tracing the Instability and Variability of Identity and Culture in 18th Century Creole Louisiana.

• Forum on European Expansion and Colonial Interaction, Biennial Conference.
  Duke University, North Carolina.
  

Reconsidering the Colonial Space: Destabilization,
Fragmentation, and Reconfiguration in Early Louisiana, 1720-1820.

• Workshop Social and Cultural History at
  Provincializing the United States: Colonialism, Decolonization and Post-Colonialism,
  GAAS - Annual Conference of Historians.
  MLU Halle-Wittenberg/FU Berlin.

11.2009

New Perspectives on Colonial Louisiana: Migration, Forced Migration,
Creolization, and Slavery in Times of Global Crisis, 1720-1803.

• American Studies Postgraduate Forum, PGF, 2009.
  LMU Munich.

09.2008

Strangers on the Shore - A Flight into Hell.

• Indigenous Cultures and Knowledges, Konstanz Summer School.
  Konstanz University.

08.2008

Campaigning the Classroom - Locating the
U.S. Presidential Campaigns in German Secondary Schools.

• Vigorous Executive: The President in American Politics and Culture,
  3rd. Wittenberg Summer School.
  MLU Halle-Wittenberg.

07.2007

From 'We Media' to 'We Influence'?

• The American Press and the Challenges of Politics and Technology,
  2nd. Wittenberg Summer School.
  MLU Halle-Wittenberg.

• Member of the Graduate Student Committee of the GCSC
  

• Co-Speaker of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF)
  of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS)
  

• Copy Editor for American Studies Journal (ZUSAS, MLU Halle-Wittenberg)

• Speaker of Research Area Memory Cultures (GCSC)
  

• Speaker of GGK-Section 6: Concepts, Theories, and Methods of History (JLU Giessen)
  

• Contributor to Blog Kultur oder Wissenschaft (Blogkow)
  

• German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, Short-Term Doctoral Fellowship
  

• FEEGI-Conference Travel Grant
  

• GCSC Scholarship Holder
  

• Tulane University Non-Degree Scholarship Holder

• Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars and Researchers in the Field of American Studies (with Ottilie Klein and Daniel Holder)

• Workshop on Memory and Film Studies at Konstanz University in Cooperation with Friederike Klemm and Birgit Schwelling