Contact
Amerika-Institut
Schellingstr. 3 VG
D-80799 Munich
Room 202
Room:
202
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 3564
Email:
charlotte.lerg@lmu.de
Office hours:
please make an appointment via email and specify if you would prefer an in-person meeting or a Zoom-call.
Further Information
Areas of Research
American Cultural History of the 19th and 20th Century (USA and Canada), (Digital) Public History, History of Knowledge and Higher Education, Visual Studies, History of Deplomacy and Media, Law and the Humanities, Revolutions in the Atlantic World, Theory of History
Teaching in SoSe 2025
- Law and the Visual
- AI in the writing of history (in German)
- History of the Amerika-Institut (in German)
- BA Kolloquium
- MA and PhD Kolloquium
Recent Publications:
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky. Into Germany at the End of World War II. New York: Berghahn Books 2022 (Paperback 2024).
"Konstruktion und Offenheit. Comic-Geschichtsschreibung in Kanada." IN: Praktiken der Geschichtsschreibung. Vergleichende Perspektiven auf Forschungs- und Vermittlungsprozesse in Akademia und Public History herausgegeben von Jürgen Büschenfeld, Marina Böddeker, Thorsten Logge, und Rebecca Moltmann, Bielefeld: Transcript 2023: 89-116.
Die Amerikanische Revolution 2. aktual. u. erg. Aufl. Narr Francke Attempto Verlag (2022)
Co-editor of: HIC- History of Intellectual Culture. Yearbook for Knowledge and Society (Open Access at deGruyter Press)
Podcast-Series:
Was Wäre Gewesen. Der Podcast über kontrafaktische Geschichte L.I.S.A. Portal Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Recent Academic Blog Entries:
- ‘On mobility and “meetingness in academia” Migration and Mobilities Bristol Blog (University of Bristol)
(2025, April 28) - „Chaos and bloodshed already haunt us…“. Wie das Musical Hamilton sein geschichtspolitisches Momentum verlor. doing | public | history (2023, 12. Feb.).
- Figuratively Speaking. Why Metaphors Matter in Talking About the Work Historians Do (Part 1). Geschichtstheorie am Werk (2022, 4. Okt.).
- Are We All Time-Travelling Detectives? Why Metaphors Matter in Talking About the Work Historians Do (Part 2). Geschichtstheorie am Werk (2022, 11 Okt.).
- Zurück zur Universitätsdiplomatie? Akademisches Charisma und die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen. Geschichte der Gegenwart (22. September 2021)