Staff List
Dr. Thomas W. Gijswijt
Associate Professor of American Studies
Zoom office hours by email appointment.
Thomas Gijswijt joined the American Studies department in 2012. He received his PhD in American History at the University of Heidelberg and previously taught at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Informal Alliance. The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War, 1952-1968 (Routledge, 2018) and is an expert on American foreign policy, transatlantic relations during and after the Cold War and US politics and presidential elections. He also teaches courses on songwriting and the Beatles and America. He has appeared on ZDF Heute, Deutschlandfunk, SWR Info, MDR Aktuell, SWR 2, Radio 1 (Dutch national public radio), and a number of local tv and radio broadcasters.
Recent Publications
2018-21
- Informal Alliance. The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War, 1952-1968 (Routledge, 2018)
- "The Kennedy Administration, Alliance Politics and Informal Diplomacy during the Transatlantic Crisis of 1962/63," in: Johannes Großmann and Helene Miard-Delacroix (eds.), Deutschland, Frankreich und die USA in den 'langen' 1960er Jahren. Ein transatlantisches Dreiecksverhältnis, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018, pp. 147-163.
- Review: Die Schutzmacht. Die Amerikaner in Berlin 1945-1994. By Stefanie Eisenhuth, in: Central European History, 53, 2020.
- Chapter 'Parteien und Wahlen' in: Länderbericht USA, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2021.