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Andrew Zimmerman
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
| 801 22nd St. NW #304 |
Phone: (202) 994-0257 |
| Washington, D.C. 20052 |
Email: azimmer@gwu.edu |
 Andrew Zimmerman is an award-winning teacher whose research focuses on modern Germany, the history of the social sciences, and the relations among modernization, imperialism, and globalization. His latest book, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton University Press, forthcoming in Spring 2010), traces the influence of Booker T. Washington and the New South on German Imperialism in Africa. He has done research in Germany, Tanzania, and Togo and the United States. (Complete C.V.)
Selected Publications
"'What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?' Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania." Comparative Studies in Society and History 48 (2006): 419-461.
"Decolonizing Weber." Postcolonial Studies 9 (2006): 53-79.
"A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee Expedition to German Togo and the Transnational Origins of West African Cotton Growers." American Historical Review 110 (2005): 1362-1398.
- Translated as "Ein deutsches Alabama in Afrika: Die Tuskegee-Expedition nach Togo und die transnationalen Ursprünge westafrikanischer Baumwollpflanzer." In Globalgeschichte. Theorien, Ansätze, Themen, ed. Sebastian Conrad, 313-342. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2007.
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
"Looking Beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism." Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 385-411.
"Selin, Pore, and Emil Stephan in the Bismarck Archipelago: A 'Fresh and Joyful Tale' of the Origin of Fieldwork." Journal of the Pacific Arts Association 21/22 (2000): 69-84.
"Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow's Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany." Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429.
Courses Taught
Hist 40: European Civilization in its World Context, 1715 to the Present
Hist 101: Nineteenth Century Europe
Hist 132 History of Germany (from William II to present)
Hist 201: History and Historians
Hist 243: Modernization, Imperialism, Globalization (MIG)
Hist 297: Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century German History
Education
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. 1998.
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