Angela Zimmerman
{{short description|American historian}}
Angela Zimmerman (born Andrew Zimmerman) is a professor of German history at George Washington University.{{Cite web|title=Angela Zimmerman|url=https://elliott.gwu.edu/angela-zimmerman|access-date=January 24, 2022|publisher=gwu.edu}}{{Cite web |url= http://toynbeeprize.org/tag/andrew-zimmerman/ |title= Andrew Zimmerman |publisher= toynbeeprize.org |access-date= August 11, 2017}}{{Cite web |url= http://richardscenter.la.psu.edu/programs/brose-lecture-series/past-distinguished-speakers |title= Past Distinguished Speakers |publisher= psu.edu |access-date= August 11, 2017}}
Early life and education
Zimmerman earned a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1998, an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge in 1991, a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in History from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1990.{{cite news |url= http://www.gwu.edu/~history/people/Zimmerman.cfm |title= Andrew Zimmerman CV | publisher= George Washington University |date= 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821104908/http://www.gwu.edu/~history/people/Zimmerman.cfm |archive-date=2009-08-21|url-status=dead}}
Career
Zimmerman is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany, Alabama in Africa, and several peer-reviewed articles. She edited The Civil War in the United States, a collection of writings on the American Civil War by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and others.
Publications (selection)
= Monographs =
- Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2001) {{ISBN|0226983420}}.
- Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton University Press, 2010) {{ISBN|9780691123622}}.
= Articles (selection) =
- “Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory.” History of the Present 8 (Fall 2018): 140-176.
- “A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee Expedition to German Togo and the Transnational Origins of African Cotton Growers,” American Historical Review 110 (December 2005).
- “Looking Beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 385-411.
- “Selin, Pore, and Emil Stephan in the Bismarck Archipelago: A ‘Fresh and Joyful Tale’ of the Origin of Fieldwork,” Journal of the Pacific Arts Association 21/22 (2000): 69-84.
- “German Anthropology and the ‘Natural Peoples’: The Global Context of Colonial Discourse,” The European Studies Journal, Special Issue: German Colonialism: Another Sonderweg? 16 (1999): 95-112.
- “Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow’s Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany,” Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429.
- “Geschichtslose und Schriftlose Völker in Spreeathen: Anthropologie als Kritik der Geschichtswissenschaft im Kaiserreich,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 47 (1999): 197-210.
- “Legislating Being: Words and Things in Bentham’s Panopticon,” The European Legacy 3 (1998): 72-83.
- “The Ideology of the Machine and The Spirit of the Factory: Remarx on Babbage and Ure,” Cultural Critique 37 (Fall 1997): 5-29.
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