Jasper M. Trautsch is a lecturer in American history at the Universität Regensburg, Germany. In 2013, his dissertation was awarded the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize for an outstanding work in the field of American studies. He is the editor of Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective (forthcoming), and the author of numerous articles on US foreign policy and American nationalism in Early American Studies, the Journal of Military History, National Identities, Global Affairs, and Critical Muslim.