Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies
The Obama Institute for Transnational Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz offers a dynamic and wide-ranging program in both research and teaching for all students interested int opics related to the Americas in a global context. Among specializations in interculturality, transnationalism, and interdisciplinarity, the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies has established a research group for transnational periodical studies.
Transnational Periodical Cultures
The newly established research group on Transnational Periodical Cultures (TPC) contributes to the bourgeoning field of periodical studies, exploring magazines, newspapers, and other forms of serialized media in transnational contexts. Funded by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Transnational Periodical Cultures serves as an interdisciplinary forum for organizing workshops, conferenes as well as graduate and postgraduate research. TPC brings together students and international scholars from literary studies, media studies, book studies, journalism studies, sociology, Translation studies, text design, archival studies, and digital humanities.
The Project, spearheaded by Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding and Dr. Anja-Maria Bassimir, is part of the research group UnDoing Differences: Practices in Human Differentiation, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It focuses on mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion in religious magazines in the United States. The current Project, Keeping the Faith: The Work of Religious Magazines, published by Brill as part of the series Studies in Periodical Cultures (SPC).
The DFG (German Research Foundation) is the self-governing organiszation for science and research in Germany. The current project, "Periodicals and Indigenous Modernity: Building a Text Corpus of American Indian Magazines,1890–1930” (SCHE 1616/12-1), is funded by the DFG from April 2020 through April 2023.