apl. Prof. Dr. Jasper Trautsch

Habilitation in Modern and Contemporary History, University of Regensburg (2019)

Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) in History, Free University of Berlin (2011)

Magister Artium (M.A.) in Communication Science, Modern History, North American Studies, Free University of Berlin (2006)

Master of Arts (M.A.) in History, Tulane University (2005)

Foreign exchange student at the Sorbonne, Paris IV, École des hautes études en sciences de l’information et de la communication (CELSA) (2003-2004)

Abitur (grammar school graduation diploma), Humboldt-Schule in Kiel (2000)

Associate Professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor), Institute of History, University of Regensburg (since 2024)

Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat), University of Bonn (since 2022)

Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent), Institute of History, University of Regensburg (2019 – 2024)

Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institut of History, Humboldt-University of Berlin (2019 – 2022)

Lecturer (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institut of Hisory, University of Regensburg (2015 – 2018)

Research Fellow, German Historical Institutes in Washington, London, Rom, and Paris, and the German Academic Exchange Service (2012 – 2015)

Legislative Manager for Cultural and Media Affairs, Deutscher Bundestag (2010 – 2012)

PhD scholarship, Graduate School for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin (2007 – 2010)

Research Grant, German Research Foundation (Project no. 422478530) (2019)

Otto-Bennemann-Grant for methodically innovative research on school textbooks, Georg-Eckert-Institute (2015)

Postdoc Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (2014 – 2015)

Rolf-Kentner-Dissertation Prize for an outstanding dissertation in the field of American Studies (2013)

Postdoc Fellowships, German Historical Institutes in Washington, London, Rom and Paris (2012 – 2013)

Research Fellowship, "History of American Civilization" program, Harvard University, Cambridge (2009)

Monographs and Edited Volumes

Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective (London/New York: Routledge, 2019).

The Genesis of America: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793-1815 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Pressepolitik in Deutschland: Eine Untersuchung über pressepolitische Ziele und Motive von Bundestagsabgeordneten (Tectum: Marburg, 2008).

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

"Oswald Spengler and America: His Interpretation in and of the United States," in: Global Intellectual History, accessible via: https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2025.2475178.

"Vom 'Abendland' in 'den Westen'? Die Liberalisierung der Bundesrepublik in der Nachkriegszeit in begriffsgeschichtlicher Sicht," in: Historische Zeitschrift, Vol. 311, No. 3 (2020), 633-666.

"Der Westen: Theoretisch-methodische Überlegungen zu einer Begriffsgeschichte," in: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Vol. 60/61 (2020), 407-438.

"Von der nationalen zur europäischen Identität? Potential und Problematik von Europakarten auf Briefmarken," in: Journal of European Integration History, Jg. 25, H. 2 (2019), S. 165-187.

"Was ist 'der Westen'? Zur Semantik eines politischen Grundbegriffs der Moderne," in: Forum interdisziplinäre Begriffsgeschichte, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2017), 58-66.

"La révolution américaine dans les ‚guerres historiographiques‘ contemporaines aux Etats-Unis: quels défis pour l’historiographie conservatrice," in: Politique Américaine, No. 29 (2017), 145-176.

"The Concept of the West," in: Critical Muslim, No. 20 (2016), 18-33.

"The Origins and Nature of American Nationalism," in: National Identities, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2016), 289-312.

"Who’s Afraid of China? Neo-Conservative, Realist and Liberal-Internationalist Assessments of American Power, the Future of 'the West' and the Coming New World Order," in: Global Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2015), 235-245.

"Von der 'Mitte' in den 'Westen' Europas: Die räumliche Neuverortung Deutschlands auf den kognitiven Landkarten nach 1945," in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, Vol. 63, No. 7/8 (2015), 647-666.

"1776 as an Identity Crisis: American Nationalism and the American Revolution," in: Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte, Vol. 14 (2014), 43-81.

"Der amerikanische Nationalismus und die These vom Exzeptionalismus: Überlegungen zu den historischen Grundlagen der amerikanischen Nation," in: Historisches Jahrbuch, Vol. 134 (2014), 322-338.

"The History of the Canadian Governmental Representation in Germany," in: Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2013), 143-169.

"The Causes of the War of 1812: 200 Years of Debate," in: Journal of Military History, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2013), 273-293.

"'Mr. Madison’s War' or the Dynamic of Early American Nationalism?," in: Early American Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2012), 630-670.

Articles in Edited Volumes

"Westen/Abendland," in: Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht and Falko Schmieder (eds.), Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen: Lexikon zur historischen Semantik in Deutschland, Vol. 1 (Basel: Schwabe, 2024), accessible via https://doi.org/10.31267/Grundbegriffe_52409580.

"'Europa' und 'der Westen': Die kognitive Neukartierung der atlantischen Welt nach 1945," in: Michael Gehler, Deborah Cuccia, Jakob Iser and Philipp Strobl (eds.), Geschichte Europas: Seine Desintegration und Integration schreiben, 2 vols. (Hildesheim: Olms, 2023), Vol. 1, 423-434.

"Die Welt im Miniaturformat: Weltkarten und Globusdarstellungen auf französischen und britischen Briefmarken im Spannungsfeld des Ost-West- und Nord-Süd-Konflikts," in: René and Pierre Smolarski and Silke Vetter-Schultheiß (eds.), Klio & Hermes: Philatelie und Postwesen aus historischer Perspektive (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023), 45-72.

"Zwischen globalem Anspruch und lokaler Standortgebundenheit: Welt-Bilder auf Postwertzeichen der DDR," in: René and Pierre Smolarski and Silke Vetter-Schultheiß (eds.), Klio & Hermes: Philatelie und Postwesen aus historischer Perspektive (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023), 97-122.

"Standortverlagerungen Deutschlands im Welt-Raum: Kartographische Europa- und Welt-Bilder im Nationalsozialismus, in der frühen Bundesrepublik und der DDR," in: Frank Becker, Darius Harwardt and Michael Wala (eds.), Die Verortung der Bundesrepublik: Ideen und Symbole politischer Geographie nach 1945 (Bielefeld: transcript, 2020), 13-52.

"European Integration by Mail: European Symbols on Postage Stamps," in: Michael Gehler and Wilfried Loth (eds.), Reshaping Europe: Towards a Political, Economic and Currency Union (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020), 17-41.

"Expansions- als Friedenspolitik: Krieg im Denken von Thomas Jefferson," in: Jürgen Peter Schmied (ed.), Liberale und linksliberale Interventionisten vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart (Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2019), 37-56.

"Introduction: A Global Approach to Civic Nationalisms," in: Jasper M. Trautsch (ed.), Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective (London/New York: Routledge, 2019), 1-29.

"Homogenizing and Demarcating America: Civic Nationalism in the United States, 1774-1861," in: Jasper M. Trautsch (ed.), Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective (London/ New York: Routledge, 2019), 168-197.

"Vom amerikanischen Exzeptionalismus zur atlantischen Gemeinschaft: Die Visualisierung des Ost-West-Konflikts auf US-Briefmarken," in: René and Pierre Smolarski and Silke Vetter-Schultheiß (eds.), Gezähnte Geschichte: Briefmarken als historische Quelle (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018), 313-333.

"The Transatlantic Drift and the Reinvention of Europe: West German Labor Unions’ Perception of America in the 1980s," in: Jan Hansen, Christian Helm and Frank Reichherzer (eds.), Making Sense of the Americas: How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2015), 267-291.

"Atrocity and Reciprocity: The Burnings of Washington D.C. and Toronto and the Challenges to the Laws of War in the War of 1812," in: Christos G. Frentzos and Antonio Thompson (eds.), Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History: The Colonial Period to 1877 (New York: Routledge, 2014), 190-197.

"Enlightenment as a Cultural Marker of American Identity," in: Kristina-Monika Hinneburg and Grazyna Jurewicz (eds.), Zwischen Universalismus und partikularem Anspruch: Das Prinzip Aufklärung (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2013), 199-216.

"Axel Springer Verlag: Mit BILD und Co. nach Polen," in: Stefan Schmid (ed.), Strategien der Internationalisierung: Fallstudien und Fallbeispiele, 2nd rev. ed. (Munich/Vienna: Oldenbourg, 2007), 247-281, 3rd rev. and enl. ed. (2013), 273-310.

Entries in Encyclopedias

"Treaty of Paris (1763)" and "Trieste Question," in: Gordon Martel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, 4 vol. (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), Vol. 4, 1834-1838, 1921-1926.

"Cold War", "Disarmament," "Globalization," "Idealism," "Isolationism," "Peace Theories," in: Paul Joseph (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, 4 vols. (Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2017), Vol. 1, 327-330, 500-503, Vol. 2, 722-725, 854-855, 902-905, Vol. 3, 1327-1330.

"First Barbary War," "Second Barbary War," "Thomas Jefferson," "Louisiana Purchase," "Venezuela, 1893-1945," "Korea, 1945-1953," "The Ugly American," in: Chris J. Magoc and David Bernstein (eds.), Imperialism and Expansionism in American History, 4 vols. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 2015), Vol. 1, 252-253, 253-255, Vol. 2, 404-407, 521-525, Vol. 3, 857-858, Vol. 4, 1116-1120, 1274-1275.

"Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)," "Beer and Ale," "Rum," "Whiskey," in: Merril D. Smith (ed.), The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Santa-Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 2015), Vol. 1, 68-71, 316-319, 368-370, 384-387.