Dr. Silke Hackenesch is an assistant professor (Akademische Rätin) at the Institute of North American History at the University of Cologne. For the latest information, please visit: https://nag.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/faculty-and-staff-north-american-history/assistant-associate-professors/hackenesch-pd-dr-silke
Network-related publications include:
Colorblind Love or Racial Responsibility? The Adoption of Black German Children to Postwar America (under contract with New York University Press, tbp 2026).
New Perspectives on the History of Women’s Movements in the United States, herausgegeben mit Rebecca Brückmann und Charlotte Lerg (tbp 2026 with De Gruyter).
Adoption Across Race and Nations: U.S. Histories and Legacies. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
“Love Across the Color Line? Pearl S. Buck and the Adoption of Afro-German Children after World War II”, in Silke Hackenesch (ed.). Adoption Across Race and Nations: U.S. Histories and Legacies. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2022, 127-149.
“Race, Rassismus, und Werbung”, in Silvan Niedermeier (ed.). Rassismus in den USA: Ein Handbuch zu Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Politik, München: UVK Verlag, 2025.
“Transnationale Adoptionen. Debatten um Familie, race und civil rights zwischen Deutschland und den USA nach 1945”, in Fabian Klose, Arvid Schors (eds.). Wie schreibt man Internationale Geschichte? Neue Perspektiven auf das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus, 2023.
“The Double Standard: German Shepherds, Race, and Violence”, zusammen mit Mieke Roscher, in Jonathan W. Thurston (ed.). Animals and Race. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023.
“’These children will have good decent American homes and parents’: Zur Debatte um proxy adoptions und die Adoption afrodeutscher Kinder in die USA nach 1945”, in Benedikt Stuchtey, Bettina Hitzer (eds.). In unsere Mitte genommen. Adoption im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022, 149-174.