Andrew Zimmerman
Title — Professor of History and International Affairs
Address — 801 22nd St. NW #304, Washington D.C. 20052
Office — 801 22nd St. NW #304
Phone — (202) 994-0257
E-mail — azimmer@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
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), 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.)
Education
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. 1998.
Publications
Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
“‘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.
"Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow’s Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany.” Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429.
Classes Taught
Hist 40: European Civilization in its World Context, 1715 to the Present
Hist 101: Nineteenth Century Europe
Hist 132: Modern German History
Hist 243: Modernization, Imperialism, Globalization (MIG)
Hist 297: Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century German History