In this teacher training seminar, Heike Paul revisits her book The Myths that Made America and talks about the ways in which to expand and update this 2014-publication. For more information, see here .

Heike Paul is on a current events-panel at this year's Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS)-conference to address "Academic Freedom under Attack: Transgenerational Perspectives on Contemporary Transatlantic American Studies." For more information, see here .

On the occasion of Nat Turner's birthday on October 2, 1800, Heike Paul is among those interviewed about the history of African American resistance and the culture of remembrance in the USA. For more information, see here .

Heike Paul is currently fellow at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst (September to November 2025) and will pursue a project on "...

Heike Paul is interviewed by Maja Ellmenreich from German radio station "Deutschlandfunk" about the choice of Alaska as the site of the...

The third book in transcript’s Global Sentimentality series was published in August 2025: "Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging", edited by Heike Paul and Sarah Pritz. It includes contributions from GRK2726 members and fellows, including Anna Corrigan, Thomas Demmelhuber, Christian Krug, Sarah Marak, Marc Andre Matten, Heike Paul, Sarah Pritz, Elaine Roth, Charleena Schweda, Vincent Steinbach, Antonia Thies, among others. The volume is available i