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The H-GAGCS network provides a moderated multi-disciplinary forum for discussion of topics relevant to German-speaking immigrants in North America from the 17th century to the present. Academic disciplines involved include history, geography, ethnic and immigration studies, linguistics, literary and cultural studies. Topics for discussion may include the invention/ transformation of ethnicity and national identities among German Americans and German Canadians, patterns of settlement, patterns of maintenance and change in language and culture, civic participation, methods of conceptualizing and understanding German identity in North America etc. The list addresses an audience of primarily academics and graduate students. We are stressing the value of comparative and cross-border ethnic studies (a diaspora approach) and the idea of cultural regions (which may straddle international borders, e.g. the Northern Great Plains). Contributions on German communities in other parts of the world (South America, Australia) may be included from time to time if they serve a comparative purpose.

We are not an advocacy, genealogical or heritage group. GAGCS encourages discussion of methodologies, sharing of research results, book and article reviews, information on archival sources and research funding etc. Like all H-Net lists, H-GAGCS is moderated to edit out material that, in the editors' opinion, is not germane to the list, involves technical matters (such as subscription management requests), is inflammatory, or violates evolving, yet common, standards of Internet etiquette.

H-GAGCS is sponsored by the Chair in German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg, Canada and the Max-Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is advised by a board of field experts.

The H-GAGCS list is co-edited by Angelika E.Sauer, Chair in German-Canadian Studies, The University of Winnipeg (Canada), and Joseph C.Salmons, Director, Max-Kade-Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The editors serve two-year renewable terms, with the approval of the H-Net Executive Committee and rotate their duties. The current editor will be identified in all messages coming from the list. The editors will solicit postings (by email, phone and even by regular mail), will assist people in managing subscriptions and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. Anyone with suggestions about what H-GAGCS can and might do is invited to send in ideas. The editors will solicit and post newsletter-type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions.)

Message logs and more information about H-GAGCS may be obtained at its website, linked from the H-Net website: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~gagcs

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