Jana is a historian and DAAD Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. With a focus on U.S. and transatlantic history, her research interests include 19th and 20th century immigration, knowledge, and religious history as well as the history of racism. Currently, she is working on her second book titled “The Lager Beer Revolution in the United States: The History of Beer and German-Americans as a Reinvention of Ethnicity, Knowledge, and Consumption”. She analyses the technological and cultural transfer of the “German art of brewing” to the United States, covering the beginning of the 19th century, when German-style, bottom-fermented beers were first introduced until national prohibition in 1920.