
Simone V. Willnath
Simone Willnath received her Bachelor’s Degree in German Studies and Theology from the University of Münster, holds a Master’s Degree in Foreign Language Pedagogy, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in German Studies at Georgetown University. She supported the Immigrant Entrepreneurship team as a research assistant from May-August 2014 and developed several teaching tools for the project:
- German-Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States From the Beginning of the 19th Century to the Post-World War II Era (college-level syllabus)
- Female Entrepreneurship in the United States: German-American Businesswomen from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (college-level syllabus)
- Aryanization of Jewish Businesses, Persecution, and Migration to America During National Socialism (high school level bilingual history course)
- Migration to America and German-Immigrant Entrepreneurship During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Gymnasium-level English language course)
This author has contributed to the following articles in the Encyclopedia.
- Aryanization of Jewish Businesses, Persecution, and Migration to America During National Socialism
- Female Entrepreneurship in the United States
- German-Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States From the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Post-World War II Era
- Migration to America and German-Immigrant Entrepreneurship During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries