With the support of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Hein is completing her dissertation, “Göttingen's Global Modernity: Cultures of Belonging in a Provincial German Town.” Her project investigates the variegated processes by which Göttingen citizens, by using periodization as a compass, mapped their local and regional place upon the modern globe. Here, the temporal metanarrative of the Enlightenment, which defined human history as a unilinear, universal march toward progress, provided the vocabulary for residents to relate themselves to collectives and to “Others.” She tracks these processes through the production of almanacs, collections of human bones, assembly of ethnographic curiosities, and the consumption of imported silk and satin: offering a kaleidoscopic view of residents’ efforts to find belonging within this strange and rapidly expanding world.