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• Stieglitz, O.; Martschukat, J. (Eds.)

  Race & Sex: eine Geschichte der Neuzeit

  Berlin: Neofelis Verlag. 2016.

  ISBN: 978-3-95808-034-8
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• Stieglitz, O.

  Kulturgeschichte des Körpers

  In: Brümmer, K.; Janetzko, A.; Alkemeyer, T. (Eds.)

  Ansätze einer Kultursoziologie des Sports. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 2021. pp. 115–133.
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• Stieglitz, O.

  'Mentally superior children are born of physically superior people': Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture World and the Influence of Eugenic Thought in American Fitness Culture, 1900s-1930s

  Amerikastudien/American Studies. 2020. 64 (2). pp. 241–264.
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In my BA classes, I teach North American (mainly United States) History from colonial times to the early years of the 21st century with a strong emphasis on social and cultural history. Moreover, I underline the many and often changing transfers and entanglements between North America and other regions of the world. Another important aspect is Memory Studies, bringing historical topics closer to contemporary society and culture by asking how the past is still a core argument within American discourse.

BA classes include

·        SHP I & II lecture classes ‘Constructing North American History’

·        SHP III classes, e.g. on the History of Slavery, on the Vietnam War in American Memory, on Sports History

·        iTASK lecture class

In my MA classes, Memory Studies play an important role as well. Here, other main interests revolve around the history of bodies; around power relations structured along the lines of class, race, gender, and (dis)ability; around North American border regimes; and around visual culture (esp. film and photography)

Recent MA classes included

·        classes on Immigration, Ethnicity & Citizenship, e.g. on Irish American and Asian American History

·        classes on American Film Culture, e.g. on the New Hollywood and on Horror Movies

·        classes on American Body Politics, e.g. on Eugenics, on Racial Capitalism, and on American Border Regimes

·        classes in Memory Studies, e.g. on Civil Rights Memory