With the support of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, Hein is now completing her dissertation, “Göttingen’s Global Modernity: Cultures of Belonging in a Provincial German Town, 1775-1815.” Her work examines Germans’ constitution of local and regional identity through their entanglements with foreign empires at the turn of the nineteenth century. Using the small town of Göttingen as a case study, she argues that Germans’ efforts to map their belonging in a globalizing world became inextricably bound to their periodization of European modernity in the Sattelzeit era.