Frank Usbeck studied American Studies, history, journalism, and American Indian Studies in Leipzig and at the University of Arizona. He earned his PhD in Leipzig in 2010; his dissertation was published in 2015 under the title Fellow Tribesmen: The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany (Berghahn Books). Usbeck’s research examines Indigenous history and ethnic relations in North America, as well as the history of museums and memorial sites.
Since 2018, he has been working as curator of the Americas collections at the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony (SES) and heads the SES research department.
