Portfolio – Archive

Current (and Recent) Projects:

My book translation about a small twentieth-century religious community in central Germany and their resistance to the Nazi regime should be published this year. Stay tuned for more details!
My work translating primary sources for the German Historical Institute’s German History in Documents and Images project (see below) is ongoing.
The editors of the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte have recently invited me to serve as editorial assistant for that journal.

St Paul’s Church, Strasbourg, France

Completed book translations:

“Old Preface by Siebenkäs Himself (Palingeneses, 1798).” In Jean Paul. Prefaces, 134–144. Empyrean Series 18. Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Seattle, WA: Sublunary, 2022.
Murray, Stuart. The Legacy of Melchior Rinck: Anabaptist Pioneer in Hesse. Translated by Leonard Gross and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Harrisonburg, Virginia: Herald Press, 2022.
Jürgen Moltmann. Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising. Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2021.
Heinrich Hartmann. The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War. Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
Patricia Hertel. The Crescent Remembered: Islam and Nationalism on the Iberian Peninsula. Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
- Reviewed here and here, in English, and here, in Italian, but I’m told the Italian reviewer praises the translation as “consistently clear, while also imaginative and with a wealth of broader implications.”

Museum exhibitions:

“We are family” at the Museum of Everyday Culture in Waldenbuch Castle, 2024
“Eureka?!? Inventions that (didn’t) change the world…” at the Museum of Everyday Culture in Waldenbuch Castle, 2022
“Keeping Memories” online exhibition hosted by Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, 2021
“#(Re)formation Education!” exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Marburg, 2017

Published copy-editing projects:

Martin Bauch, Thomas Labbé, Annabell Engel, and Patric Seifert. “A Prequel to the Dantean Anomaly: The Precipitation Seesaw and Droughts of 1302 to 1307 in Europe.” Climate of the Past 16, no. 6 (November 25, 2020): 2343–58.
Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele. “‘Nova propemodum translatio’: Luther and the Vulgate.” Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 110, no. 1 (December 1, 2019): 7–22.
Martin Bauch and Gerrit Jasper Schenk, eds. The Crisis of the 14th Century: Teleconnections between Environmental and Societal Change? The Crisis of the 14th Century. De Gruyter, 2019.

Examples of my German to English translation work are readily available here:

Academic essays:

For the project Bavarian Studies in History and Culture (BSHC), an online portal of the Commission for Bavarian History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (coordinated with colleagues):
- Helge Gerndt. “Entangled in Stories: How Old Are Our Fairy Tales?” Translated by Sarah Swift and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2024).
- Alexander Wegmaier. “Multilevel Governance as a Stimulus for Regional History.” Translated by Sarah Swfit and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2024).
- Jürgen Blänsdorf. “The Curse Tablets from the Roman Cohort Fort of Abusina/Eining: Defixionum Tabellae Abusinenses (DT Abusina).” Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2022).
- Martin Scharfe. “‘Mountains Have Names!’: On the History of How Mountain Names Became Established.” Translated by Sarah Swift and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2021).
- Mark Häberlein and Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein. “Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s Network in Bamberg.” Translated by Andrew Godfrey and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2020).
- Rolf Kießling. “From Upper Italy to Swabia: A Fourteenth-Century Case of Geographical Shifts in Production and the Structural Evolution of an Economic Sector.” Translated by Sarah Swift and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2020).
- Karl Borromäus Murr. “The Local Face of Global Trade: Augsburg Cotton Imports from the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Translated by Andrew Godfrey and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2020).
- Reinhard Stauber. “The Reorganization of Europe North and South of the Alps: Bavaria, Austria, and the Italian States, 1814–1816.” Translated by Andrew Godfrey and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2019).
- Helmut Groschwitz. “How Things Produce Authenticity: Cultural Heritage as a Network.” Translated by Sarah Swift and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2019).
- Michael Kißener. “Building a Future out of the Ashes: The German Federal States after the Second World War.” Translated by Andrew Godfrey and Ellen Yutzy Glebe. BSHC (2019).
Thomas Nauerth. “Michael Horsch and the Rhön Bruderhof, 1936–1937: From Friend to Hostile Witness to Historical Eyewitness.” Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Mennonite Quarterly Review 91, no. 2 (April 2017): 213–46.
Mischa Suter. “Debt and Its Attachments: Collateral as an Object of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Liberalism.” Translated by Ellen Yutzy Glebe. Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, no. 3 (July 2017): 715–42.
For the European History Online (EGO) project of the Leibniz Institute of European History:
- Jewish Networks English | German
- Hasidism: A Mystical Movement Within Eastern European Judaism English | German
- Emigration 1933–1945/1950 English | German
For the project “On site, in time” of the Leibniz Institute of European History:

Translation of historical sources:

Key Documents of German-Jewish History: A Digital Source Edition
- Decree of King Christian IV of Denmark extending privileges to the Jews in Altona (1641)
- Excerpt from Johannes Müller’s “Judaism” on the question as to “whether Christians can with good conscience permit Jews to live in their midst” (1644)
- Excerpt from “Jüdische Merckwürdigkeiten” (1714)
German History in Documents and Images, Vol. 1
German History in Documents and Images, Vol. 2
- Proclamation abolishing serfdom in Baden (1783)
- Prussian regulation edict (1811)

Social media copywriting:

I contributed several months of posts to Fortress Press’s social media project, “The Road to the Reformation,” in anticipation of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s ninety five theses in October 2017. The daily posts are still available on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest!

An example of a transcription of a historical document which I completed for my dissertation on sixteenth-century Hessian Anabaptism:

Academic writing samples:

In May 2019, I was invited to deliver a lecture at the Ebernburg about the Anabaptist movement in Hesse during the Reformation era. That lecture, titled “‘Ob er auch ein widerteufer im herzen habe’ – Die Täuferbewegung(en) in Hessen zur Zeit der Reformation” was subsequently published in an Ebernburg Heft (53/2019) together with the contribution of my colleague, Dr. Astrid von Schlachta, whose lecture I attended in October 2018.

Follow the link below to read the introduction to my dissertation on Anabaptism in the Landgraviate of Hesse during the Reformation period:

Prelude (Matthias Bengel and the Congregation of Altmorschen)

My dissertation is available for purchase here:

“Anabaptists in their Hearts?: Religious Dissidence and the Reformation in the Landgraviate of Hesse .” Ph. D. diss., UC-Berkeley, 2008.

The greater part of an essay I published on Landgrave Philipp and his relatively tolerant stance towards religious dissidents can be viewed here (p. 293ff.):

“Landgrave Philipp’s Dilemma: The Roots of Tolerance and the Desire for Protestant Unity ,” in Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., ed. by Christopher Ocker, Michael Printy, Peter Starenko, & Peter Wallace (Brill: Leiden, 2007).

There are also several publicly accessible book reviews that I have written:

Would you like to know more? Please feel free to ask me questions about my work to date.

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Header photo: View of the Alhambra, Granada, Spain