Dr Jeremy DeWaal

I work on the cultural history of modern Germany and am currently finishing up a book on Heimat (local and regional places of home) and democratization in postwar West Germany, entitled Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democratization in West Germany, 1945-1990. My second book project moves into the history of emotions and examines the emotional history of the Carnival tradition and its radical reinvention in German-speaking Europe across the longue durée.

I received my Ph.D. in European History from Vanderbilt University and subsequently spent a period as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin in the team of Prof. Dr. Paul Nolte. I came to the University of Exeter from the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, where I began laying the groundwork for my second book project. I have received grants in support of my research from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Commission, the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the Central European History Society.