Angela Zimmerman (born Andrew Zimmerman) is a professor of German history at

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Early life and education

Zimmerman earned a PhD from the

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, in 1998, an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science,

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in 1991, a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in History from

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, in 1990.

Career

Zimmerman is the author of ''Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany'', ''Alabama in Africa'', and several peer-reviewed articles. She edited ''The Civil War in the United States'', a collection of writings on the

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'' 110 (December 2005). *“Looking Beyond History: The Optics of German Anthropology and the Critique of Humanism,” ''Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences'' 32 (2001): 385-411. *“Selin, Pore, and Emil Stephan in the Bismarck Archipelago: A ‘Fresh and Joyful Tale’ of the Origin of Fieldwork,” ''Journal of the Pacific Arts Association'' 21/22 (2000): 69-84. *“German Anthropology and the ‘Natural Peoples’: The Global Context of Colonial Discourse,” ''The European Studies Journal, Special Issue: German Colonialism: Another Sonderweg?'' 16 (1999): 95-112. *“Anti-Semitism as Skill: Rudolf Virchow’s Schulstatistik and the Racial Composition of Germany,” Central European History 32 (1999): 409-429. *“Geschichtslose und Schriftlose Völker in Spreeathen: Anthropologie als Kritik der Geschichtswissenschaft im Kaiserreich,” ''Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften'' 47 (1999): 197-210. *“Legislating Being: Words and Things in Bentham’s Panopticon,” ''The European Legacy'' 3 (1998): 72-83. *“The Ideology of the Machine and The Spirit of the Factory: Remarx on Babbage and Ure,” ''Cultural Critique'' 37 (Fall 1997): 5-29.

References

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