Participant Info
- First Name
- Jana
- Last Name
- Weiss
- Country
- Germany
- State
- weissjana@uni-muenster.de
- Affiliation
- University of Muenster
- Website URL
- https://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/en/histsem/NA-G/Personen/janaweiss/janaweiss.html
- Keywords
- U.S. History, Civil Religion, Holidays, Independence Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Day, German-American Migration, Beer, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of Münster (Germany), North American History Department. My dissertation focuses on civil religion and U.S.-American, patriotic holidays in the second half of the 20th century. In the academic year 2015-16 I was Visiting Fellow at the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the German Research Foundation.
My current project focuses on the history of beer in pre-Prohibition USA and its evolution from a German cultural asset to an Americanized mass product.
- Recent Publications
Fly the Flag and Give Thanks to God. Zivilreligion an US-amerikanischen patriotischen Feiertagen, 1945-1992. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015.
Heike Bungert/Jana Weiß (eds.). Zivilreligion in den USA im 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2017.
“Remember, Celebrate, and Forget? The Martin Luther King Day and the Pitfalls of Civil Religion”, Journal of American Studies (2017), online: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/remember-celebrate-and-forget-the-martin-luther-king-day-and-the-pitfalls-of-civil-religion/919E83478526C423F940B90273C9B127
“Frederick Pabst”, in: William J. Hausman (German Historical Institute), Immigrant Entrepreneurship. German American Business Biographies, August 2016, http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=25.
“‘The Art of Brewing Was Developed by the Germans’: Der Einfluss deutsch-amerikanischer Einwanderung auf die US-amerikanische Brauindustrie vor der Prohibition”, in: Willi Kulke (ed.), Vom Streben nach Glück. 200 Jahre Auswanderung aus Westfalen nach Amerika. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2016: 136-147.
“‘Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt’s’: How German-Americans Shaped America’s Beer Drinking Culture”, Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter 24/3 (2015): 12-13.
“German Gemuetlichkeit 2.0”, in: Food, Fatness, and Fitness (Blog), 09/2015, http://food fatnessfitness.com/2015/09/01/german-gemuetlichkeit-2-0.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- U.S. History
- Expertise by Geography
- North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Economic History, Food History, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Race, Religion, Rural & Agrarian History, World War I
