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At Emory University, German Studies is a freestanding department within the Emory College of Arts & Sciences. It offers a pedagogically-driven and integrated undergraduate major and minor in German Studies. In addition, the German Studies faculty teach courses in Yiddish language and culture, the Program in Linguistics, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Sustainability Minor, the Departments of Music and Film & Media Studies, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS), and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Faced with Germany’s abhorrent Nazi past and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as well as the legacy of German colonialism, the Department is particularly committed to critically examine cultural memories of oppression and resistance, and therefore actively promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), in research, coursework, and outreach.

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Caroline Schaumann has been invited to serve as an honors examiner for two honors students in the German Studies program at Swarthmore College this spring.  Swarthmore's honor exams are administered by external examiners who prepare the written exams and administer oral exams on campus.

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Hiram Maxim presented his research on student engagement with Atlanta's linguistic landscape at the 12th annual Atlanta Studies Symposium at Morehouse College on May 2, 2025.

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The 100 Days Project

In our highly contentious political climate, the German Studies Department wanted to share a project conducted in 2017 by a research team of 25 Emory German Studies students, led by Professor Hiram Maxim, that documented the first 100 days of National Socialism––from the day that Adolf Hitler was named Reichskanzler on January 30, 1933 until May 9, 1933. Revisit the "100 Days Project" from 2017.

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