Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rebecca Brückmann
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Ruhr-University Bochum Faculty of History History of North America and Its Transcultural Context Universitätsstrasse 150 44801 Bochum Germany Phone: +49-234-32-24647 Office: GA 6/59 rebecca.brueckmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de Twitter:@historleans |
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C.V.
| Education | |
| Ph.D. | Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University Berlin), 2014 |
| Magistra Artium | Departments of History, Sociology, and Political Science, (B.A. and M.A.) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt-University Berlin) and the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), 2010 |
| Professional Experience | |
| Since 2018 | Assistant Professor (W1 Professorship) History of North America and Its Transcultural Context Faculty of History Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 2017-2018 | Lecturer Department of British and North American History, University Kassel |
| 2016-2017 | Lecturer Department of North American History, University of Cologne |
| 2015-2016 | Lecturer History Department, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies Free University Berlin |
| 2014-2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University Berlin |
Publications (Selected)
| Monograph |
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| 2021 | Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021 |
| Peer Reviewed Journal Articles |
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| 2019 | “Citizens’ Councils, Conservatism and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972.” European Journal of American Studies 14, no.1, special issue “Race Matters: 1968 as a Living Legacy in the Black Freedom Movement”: 1-24 |
| 2016 | “’Work Mostly Done By Men’: Cornelia Dabney Tucker and Female Grassroots Activism in Massive Resistance in Charleston, 1950-1963.” The South Carolina Historical Magazine Vol. 117, No. 2: 96-120 |
| Chapters |
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| 2021 | "Racism". In Handbook Liberalism. Edited by Michael G. Festl, 573-580. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. |
| 2018 | “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Precious.” In The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films. Edited by Salvador J. Murguia. 433-437 and 468-472. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield |
| 2012 | “Performing Southern Female Whiteness: Women’s Groups in Massive Resistance.” In On Whiteness. eds. Nicky Falkof and Oliver Cash-Brown. 79–89. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press |
| Conference Proceedings |
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| 2013 | “’I have been here from the start, and I am staying to the finish’: Women in Massive Resistance.” University of California (UCLA), Center for Women's Studies http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k43380s |
| Online Articles |
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| 2016 | “From Holly Springs to #BlackLivesMatter: Female Black civil rights activists in the United States.” Feminist Studies (Feministische Studien, Blog) http://blog.feministische-studien.de/2016/04/von-holly-springs-zu-blacklivesmatter-frauen-in-der-schwarzen-buerger_innenrechtsbewegung/ |
| 2015 | “Robert Lewis Dear and the history of abortion opposition in the United States.“ Feminist Studies (Feministische Studien, Blog) http://blog.feministische-studien.de/2015/12/keine-babykoerperteile-mehr-robert-lewis-dear-und-abtreibungsgegner_innen-in-den-usa/ |
Fellowships
| 2019 | British Association for American Studies, Targeted Research Panel Fellowship |
| 2017 | German Academic Exchange Service, scholarship to give a paper at the Southern Historical Association’s annual meeting in Dallas, Texas |
| 2017 | German Historical Institute, 3-months research fellowship |
| 2016 | Fulbright Commission, American Studies Institute fellowship |
| 2010 | Ph.D. Scholarship, German Research Council (4 years) |
| 2010 | Ph.D. Scholarship, Arts and Humanities Research Council (declined) |
| 2009 | Research Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation |
Invited Talks (Selected)
| February 14, 2019 | “’Black Pink Wave,’ Rosa Parks, and #BlackLivesMatter,” Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James-F-Byrnes-Institute, Stuttgart |
| December 04, 2018 | “White Women and White Supremacy in the 20th Century United States,” Lecture Series “Racism and Xenophobia in U.S. History,” University of Cologne |
| November 24, 2018 | “Are We Gon‘ Be Alright? Civil Rights Legacies and Current Challenges,” Workshop for high school students: “Reinventing the American Dream? Young Americans in Times of Change,” Atlantic Academy, Wiesbaden Germany |
| November 19, 2018 | “White Supremacy and Southern Belles: Women in Massive Resistance,” 10th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin |
| November 10, 2018 | “Slavery, Racialization, and Black Resistance in the United States, 1619-1865.” Fridtjof-Nansen-Academy for Civic Education, Ingelheim |
| May 25-26, 2018 | “’Fine people on both sides?’ The ‘Southern heritage’ debate,” and “Not just Charlottesville: hate speech, hate crimes, and right-wing violence.”Workshop “The Alt-Right,” Fridtjof-Nansen-Academy for Civic Education, Ingelheim |
| November 30, 2017 | Panel discussion: “Black Germany, 1880- 1945,” University of Cologne |
| February 10, 2017 | “Massive Resistance in South Carolina.” International conference “Cultures of US-American Conservatism,” University of Göttingen |
| January 18, 2017 | “The Civil Rights Movement and its Legacy: The Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Lecture.” American Space Leipzig, a cooperation between the Universität Leipzig (University of Leipzig) and the United States General Consulate Leipzig |
| December 19, 2016 | “Southern Belles and White Supremacy: The Desegregation Crisis in Little Rock and the Mothers’ League of Central High School.” Seminar “Race and Racism in American History,” University of Kassel |
| June 08, 2015 | “Segregation’s Southern Belles.” International symposium “The Resilience of White Supremacy and Privilege,” Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen |
Papers
| 2019 | “Empires and Belonging: Mixed Race People(s) and Racial Codifications in North American Borderlands." The British Association of American Studies, annual meeting University of Sussex, Brighton, April 26. |
| 2017 | “’Intelligent Opposition to Forced Race Mixing’: Cornelia Dabney Tucker, Massive Resistance, and (New) Conservatism in South Carolina. The Southern Historical Association, Dallas, TX, November 9-12 |
| 2017 | “‘The Cheerleaders’ and New Orleans’s Desegregation Crisis.” Louisiana Historical Association, Shreveport, LA, March 16-18 |
| 2014 | “Massive Resistance Revisited: New Interpretations of the Segregationist Counter-Movement.“ British Association of American Studies, Birmingham, United Kingdom, April 10-13 |
| 2013 | “Women activists in Massive Resistance.” The University of California (UCLA), Center for the Study of Women, “Thinking Gender,” Los Angeles, CA, February 1 |
| 2013 | “Proto-feminist Groups in Massive Resistance?” American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 3-6 |
| 2012 | “’It is time for the Mothers to Take Over’: Women’s Roles in Massive Resistance.” Louisiana State University, History Graduate Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 23-24 |
| 2012 | “’For Our American Form of Government’: South Carolinian Women in Massive Resistance.” South Carolina Historical Association, Columbia, SC, March 10 |
| 2011 | “Pointing Fingers: German Reactions to the Central High School Desegregation Crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.” Black German Cultural Society, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., August 19-21 |
Teaching Experience
| Ruhr-University Bochum, Faculty of History, Department of History | |
| Summer 2019 |
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| Winter 2018/19 |
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| University Kassel, Department of British and North American History | |
| Summer 2018 |
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| Winter 2017/18 |
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| University Cologne, Department of North American History | |
| Summer 2017 |
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| Winter 2016/17 |
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| Summer 2016 |
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| Free University Berlin, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, History Department | |
| Winter 2016 |
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| Summer 2015 |
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| Summer 2014 |
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| Summer 2013 |
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Research Experience
| 2018 | Archival research at the Amistad Research Center (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) and the Northwest Louisiana Archives (Louisiana State University Shreveport, LA) |
| 2017 | Archival research stays at the National Archives (Washington, D.C.), the Center of Southwest Research (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM), the State Records Center and Archives (Santa Fe, NM), the Fray Angelico Chavez Library (Santa Fe), the Amistad Research Center (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), the Williams Research Center (Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans), and the Louisiana State Archives (Baton Rouge, LA) |
| 2013 | Archival research at the Amistad Research Center (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) |
| 2012 | Archival research stays at Tulane University, the University of New Orleans (LA), the New and Orleans Public Library, the Louisiana State Archives (Baton Rouge), the Louisiana State University January 2013 (Baton Rouge), the Louisiana State University (Shreveport), and Arkansas Research Center and Arkansas Studies Institute (Little Rock) |
| 2011 | Archival research stays at to the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Winthrop University (Rock Hill, SC), the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC), the College of Charleston, Clemson University (SC), the South Carolina State University (Orangeburg), and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (Columbia, SC) |
Other Professional Experience
| 2017 | Archival research at the Amistad Research Center (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) and the Northwest Louisiana Archives (Louisiana State University Shreveport, LA) |
| 2017 | Organization of the “Black History Week,” a series of events for Black History Month, including a historiographical exhibition, a reading, an interdisciplinary round table and a film screening and debate. Department of North American History, University of Cologne |
| 2017 | Member of the interdisciplinary research group “The Contemporary Black Diaspora: Traveling Cultures in the New Black Atlantic,” initiated by Martin Lüthe (Free University Berlin) and Robert Reid-Pharr (The City University of New York) |
| 2014‑2018 | “Convergence classes” with Prof. Dr. Heidi Renee Lewis and students of the Feminist and Gender Studies program of Colorado College, CO, in Berlin and Kassel |
| 2011 | Co-organization of the international conference “American Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modes of Power”. Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University Berlin |