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| Formation | 1976 |
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| Headquarters | Baltimore, Maryland |
President | Janet Ward,University of Oklahoma |
| Website | https://www.thegsa.org/ |
TheGerman Studies Association (GSA) is an international organization of scholars inhistory,literature,economics,cultural studies, andpolitical science who studyGermany,Austria, andSwitzerland. The organization began in 1976 as the Western Association for German Studies, and was renamed as the GSA in 1983 after transforming itself into first a North American organization, and then an international one. The association awards the annualSybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize.
The founder and long-time executive director of the GSA was Professor Gerald R. Kleinfeld ofArizona State University. He also served as the first editor of the association's scholarly journal, theGerman Studies Review, which was first published in 1978. The executive director's position is currently held by ProfessorMargaret Menninger ofTexas State, while theGerman Studies Review is edited by Professor Sabine Hake of theUniversity of Texas, Austin. The association is governed by a Board elected by the members in accordance with the GSA by-laws. The GSA holds an annual conference each autumn in a North American location.
The presidents of the association included:[1]
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