Rhiannon Hein

With the support of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Hein is completing her dissertation, “A Provincial Cosmos: German Towns, Gowns, and the Making of Modernity, 1775-1830.” Her project investigates the processes by which Germans periodized collective identity in Göttingen and Weimar, two leading academic towns of the late Enlightenment and early Romantic movements. As residents met the world beyond their walls through travelogues, ethnographic collections, and fashion trends, they mapped time across space to formulate their own sense of belonging within a vast, yet interdependent globe.