Saturday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

104. German/Swiss and American Interaction in Higher Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Palmer House, Private Dining Room 18

Joint session with the Conference Group for Central European History

Chair: Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Papers: The Development of the PhD Program on the German Model in the United States from 1862 and How PhD Training Evolved to Influence German Programs in the Twentieth Century
Anne J. MacLachlan, University of California at Berkeley

American Mathematicians in Germany, German Mathematicians in the U.S.: Interactions in Higher Education and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Annette Vogt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Benefits of Foreign Study: American Women in Swiss Universities before 1914
Natalia Tikonov, University of Geneva

Etikettenschwindel: The Invention of Tradition of Newly Established Research Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in Germany and the United States
Peter Walther, Humboldt University

Comment: Kenneth F. Ledford, Case Western Reserve University

   

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