The Bavarian American Academy

"North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present" is the topic of the BAA Summer Academy 2025, which takes place from July 16 to 23, 2025, in Berkeley, CA. Application deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025.

Until April 30, 2025, doctoral researchers in American Studies and related disciplines are invited to apply for the conference's Emerging Scholars' Forum.

Emerging scholars are invited to submit applications for the BAA Fellowship Program 2025. Our fellowships give (post-)doctoral researchers opportunities to realize research stays at the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Yale University, and Duke University.

The Bavarian American Academy's board and members mourn the loss of Prof. em. Dr. Berndt Ostendorf, who passed away in Munich on October 18, 2024. Berndt Ostendorf was a founding member of the BAA and served as its deputy director from 1998 to 2001.

The legal scholar from the University of Augsburg receives the scholarship to conduct research for his comparative dissertation project on corporate human rights responsibilities in Washington D.C.

The board and the members of the Bavarian American Academy extend their warmest congratulations to the American Studies scholar.

At Duke University, the American Studies scholar from the University of Augsburg will work on his dissertation project, which engages with realist modes of writing in the context of a contemporary confluence of planetary crises.

The American Studies scholar from LMU Munich's Amerika-Institut will get a chance to spend six months at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Yıldız Aşar (Universität Bamberg) und Andrew Wildermuth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) have been awarded the Post-Graduate Research Fellowships at Harvard University 2024. We cordially congratulate the two American Studies scholars!