Participant Info
- First Name
- Angela
- Last Name
- Zimmerman
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- azimmer@gwu.edu
- Affiliation
- George Washington University
- Website URL
- https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/angela-zimmerman
- Keywords
- transnational history, colonialism and imperialism, Marxism and communism, nineteenth-century Atlantic, United States Civil War
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Angela Zimmerman studies revolutions, political thought, imperialism, and capitalism. Originally a historian of Germany and Europe, her geographical focus now also includes the United States and West Africa. Her teaching and research explore decolonizing approaches to history, including transnational archival research and the use of social and political theory.
Angela Zimmerman’s recent research has focused on the global history of the U.S. Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South. She is the author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton, 2010) and the editor of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Civil War in the United States (International Publishers, 2016). She is currently writing a history of the Civil War as an international working-class revolution with roots in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. It will be called “A Very Dangerous Element.” Her first book, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Chicago, 2001), studied imperialism, science, and popular culture. Her scholarship has been supported by organizations including the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Angela Zimmerman has many more publications available to read on her website.
- Recent Publications
“History, Theory, Poetry.” Essay on Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder, Theses on Theory and History(Wild On Collective, 2018). History of the Present 10 (2020): 183-86.
“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.
“Reconstruction along the Global Color Line: Slavery, International Class Conflict, and Empire.” In James S. Humphreys, ed., The New South, 37-62. Kent State University Press, 2018.
Editor, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Civil War in the United States. New York: International Publishers, 2016.
These and other publications are available to read on Angela Zimmerman’s website.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Transnational, United States, Germany, West Africa
- Expertise by Geography
- Germany, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Colonialism, Emancipation, Museums, Race
