Cornelia Wilhelm is currently DAAD Professor in the Departments of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University. She also teaches as Professor of Modern History at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and has held visiting positions at Rutgers University, US, and Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is author of several volumes including German Jews in America: Bourgeois Civil Self-Awareness and Jewish Identity in the Orders B'nai B'rith and True Sisters (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007), which was published in English translation by Wayne State University Press in July 2011.