Description: Historians and sociolinguists with background in German or American studies offer a fresh look at a critical period in the history of German-American communities.
Brief description: Tristan Coignard, born in 1977, works as a professor for German studies and history of ideas at Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France). He is a former Junior Fellow at Institut Universitaire de France (2018-2023) and received a fellowship of the German Historical Institute for a research stay at the Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia (2015). His current research focuses on debates about cosmopolitanism and education and on German immigrants in the USA.