Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht Professor of International History, Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany
Part of the Topics in Cold War History Seminar Series Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is professor of International History at the University of Cologne. She has been a Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, a John F. Kennedy Fellow at the Center for European Studies and a visiting fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American History, both at Harvard University. She has taught at the universities of Virginia, Bielefeld, Halle-Wittenberg, Harvard, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and at Doshisha University in Kyoto.
Her first book,
Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999), was co-awarded the Stuart Bernath Prize and the Myrna Bernath Prize, both given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Her second book,
Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. Since 2003, Gienow-Hecht is the editor of the book series "Explorations in Culture and International History" (Berghahn Books). She is currently researching nation branding in history as well as gender and humanitarian intervention.
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