Seeking authors for biographical articles
The German Historical Institute Washington DC (GHI) is
working on a multi-year digital project, Immigrant Entrepreneurship:
German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present. When complete, the
project will be a compilation of more than 200 biographical essays on first-
and second-generation German-American immigrant entrepreneurs, combined with
contextual essays on overarching topics (industry clusters, political events,
immigration policy over time, etc.) that set the history of German-American entrepreneurship
in context. A variety of photographs, media clips, and business documents
accompany the essays. Other components of the project will include
bibliographies for further research and suggestions for using the Immigrant
Entrepreneurship website in the classroom. Material is added on a daily basis -
about 80 biographies have already been posted - and can be viewed at www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org<http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org>.
Several of the businesspeople in our database made their
names in the fields of science, medicine and technology. We are currently
looking for authors who would be interested in writing an essay on a
German-American businessperson for our Volume V (1945 to the present). Names
include Willibald H. Conzen (Schering-Plough Corp.), Bernard A. Hausen
(Cardica), Eckhard Pfeiffer (Compaq), and Carl H. Rosner (CardioMag).
We are asking for articles of 5,000 - 8,000 words and
offer a modest honorarium of $400. The articles will undergo a peer-review
process and be published online at www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org<http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org>.
If you are interested or would like more information,
please contact Jessica Csoma, project manager, at csoma@ghi-dc.org<mailto:csoma@ghi-dc.org>.
Jessica Csoma
Project Manager
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington DC 20009-2562
P: +1-202-552-8943
F: +1-202-387-6437