Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Britta Waldschmidt - Nelson (born 1965 ) is Academic counselor and lecturer in North American Cultural History at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich ( LMU). She studied both at the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster and at the University of California, Davis. At LMU, she received her Master of Arts in 1992 and the Dr. Phil in 1997 in North American cultural history. In 2006 she qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Language and Literature also at LMU. Her research interests include the African-American history, transatlantic relations, and religious history of the United States and Gender Studies. Since 2011 she has worked as Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC active in the United States. With her husband and her three daughters she currently lives in Washington, DC

Writings

Monographs

• From Protest to Politics: Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement and the Congress of the United States. Frankfurt: Campus, 1998 ISBN 978-3-593-36114-7.
• Opponent: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2000, ( 6), 2010 ISBN 978-3-596-14662-8.
• Christian Science in the land of Luther: The Development of an American religious community in German contexts. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2009 ISBN 978-3-515-09380-4.
• Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.

Anthologies

• Europe and America: Cultures in Translation. Britta Waldschmidt - Nelson, Mark Hünemörder and Meike Zwingenberger ed. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006 ISBN 978-3-825-35258-5.