Angela Zimmerman (born Andrew, later Andi) is a professor of German history at
George Washington University
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Early life and education
Zimmerman earned a PhD from the
University of California, San Diego
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in 1998, an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Cambridge
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in 1991, a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in History from
University of California, Los Angeles
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in 1990.
Career
Zimmerman is the author of ''Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany'', ''Alabama in Africa'', and several peer-reviewed articles. She edited ''The Civil War in the United States'', a collection of writings on the
American Civil War
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by
Karl Marx
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*''Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany'' (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
*''Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South'' (University of Princeton Press, 2010)
*“A German Alabama in Africa: The Tuskegee Expedition to German Togo and the Transnational Origins of African Cotton Growers,” ''
American Historical Review
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*“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): 69-84.1
*“German Anthropology and the ‘Natural Peoples’: The Global Context of Colonial Discourse,” The European Studies Journal, Special Issue: German Colonialism: Another Sonderweg? 16(1999): 95-112.
*“Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow’s Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany,”Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429.“Geschichtslose und Schriftlose Völker in Spreeathen: Anthropologie als Kritik der Geschichtswissenschaft im Kaiserreich,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 47 (1999): 197-210.
*“Legislating Being: Words and Things in Bentham’s Panopticon,” The European Legacy 3 (1998): 72-83.
*“The Ideology of the Machine and The Spirit of the Factory: Remarx on Babbage and Ure,” Cultural Critique 37 (Fall 1997): 5-29