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Former Visiting Scholars

Spencer Adams


Seda Altuğ

Boğaziçi University

Project: "Making of Modern Syria: Sect, Land, Politics and Violence (1915–1946)".
Stayed at the Free University from October 2018 till February 2020.


Astrid Nonbo Andersen

University of Aarhus / at FU Berlin until July 2013


Margherita Angelini

University of Padova

Project: "History for Contemporary Timesin Italy and in the Federal Republic of Germany1950s-1970s)".


Anahita Arian


Katherine Arnold


Shinji Asada


Mark Beirn

Washington University

Project: "Berlin's Urban Airport Infrastructure from the 1930s to 1950s".


Adam Blackler

University of Minnesota / at FU Berlin until June 2013

Project: "Heathens, ‘Hottentots,’ and Heimat: The Formation of ‘Germanness’ in Southern Africa, 1842-1939".


Rodrigo Bonaldo


Ulrich Brandenburg

Universität Zürich

Project: "Japan und der Islam 1890–1914: Zwischen globaler Kommunikation und panasiatischer Bewegung".


Eriks Bredovskis

University of Toronto

Project: "Columbia’s Shadow: American Imperialism and German Anxiety, 1898–1918".
Stayed at the Free University from September 2019 till February 2020.


Kenny Cupers

University of Illinois   

Project: "Architecture, Human Science, and Colonial Territoriality in Imperial Germany".


Celia Donert


Richard Drayton


Maelia DuBois

University of California

Project: "Birthing Empires: German Overseas Imperialism and the Politics of Reproductive Space".


Marc-André Dufour

University of Toronto

Project: "Germany’s Destiny: Political and Military Conceptions of Germany’s Future, 1896-1925".


Olivia Durand


Marcela Echeverri


Hiro Fujimoto

University of Tokyo

Project: "The History of Protestant Medical Missions in Asia, 1850–1950".


Sheldon Garon

Princeton University

Project: "When Home Fronts Became Battlegrounds: A Transnational History of Japan, Germany".


Pascale Ghazaleh

American University in Cairo

Project: "The Property of the People: The Battle for National Wealth and Citizens’ Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt".


Ben Goosen

Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA

Project: "Inventing the Protestant Diaspora, 1871-1945".


Marta Grzechnik

University of Gdańsk

Project: "Making of Modern Syria: Sect, Land, Politics and Violence (1915–1946)".
Stayed at the Free University from February 2020 till May 2020.


Jens Hanssen


Jared Holley


Charlotte Johann


Sophie Jung Kim


Jo Klanovicz

Universidade Estadual do Centro Oeste do Parana


Piotr Kuligowski


Malak Labib


Jonathan Lear


Thomas Lindner


Lorenz Lüthi


Bart Luttikhuis

European University Institute / at FU Berlin until the end of 2012

Project: "Constructions of 'Europeanness' in the Dutch East Indies, 1910-1940".


Kris Manjapra

Tufts University


Christopher Mapes

Vanderbilt University


Ian Merkel


Mahon Murphy 

London School of Economics and Political Science / at FU Berlin until July 2014

Project: "German Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in the Extra-European Theatre of the First World War".


Eva Maria Mushick


Barend Noordam

Universiteit Leiden


Jannis Panagiotidis

DAAD returning scholar / at FU Berlin until June 2013

Project: "Global Migrations of Central and Eastern European Jews (1950s-1960s)"


Karolina Partyga


Glenn Penny

University of Iowa


Ivo Plsek

University of California, Berkeley

Project: "Japan and Germany after 1945: the role of pre-war political continuities in post-war reconciliation politics".


David Labastida Rodriguez

Project: "Empires of Nature: Central Europe's Botanical Imperialism in Brazil and Mexico in the 19th Century."


Tobias Rupprecht

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Project: "Empires of Nature: Central Europe’s Botanical Imperialism in Brazil and Mexico in the 19th Century 


Diego Alexander Salazar


Katja Siepmann


Wonik Son

Harvard University

Project: "The Perception of Disability in the Global Imagination."


Nader Sohrabi

Stayed at the Free University during January 2020.


Eric Storm

Leiden University

Stayed at the Free University during January 2020


Sana Tannoury-Karam


Fidel J. Tavarez


Cihan Tekay


Mauricio Tenorio Trillo

University of Chicago


Basag Tug


Zeynep Türkyilmaz

EUME Fellow

Project: "An Archeology of Today: Tracing the Genealogies of Yezidi Victimhood".
Stayed at the Free University from October 2018 till January 2020.


Vikram Visana

University of Cambridge

Project: "‘Regenerating the Tribal Soul’: Colonial Thought and Indirect Rule in the Sudan, 1899-1956."


Sean Wempe

Emory University / at FU Berlin until June 2013

Project: "Lost at Locarno? Colonial Germans and the Redefinition of “Imperial” Germany, 1919-1933".


Natasha Wheatley


Gavin Wiens

University of Toronto

Project: "Forging an Empire without an Army: Nation-Building, State Sovereignty, and the Imperial German Military, 1871-1914".


Albert Wu

American University of Paris


Zhao Xia

Peking University in China

Project: "The Transformation of positivism in microbiological studies --- From Robert Koch to Ludwik Fleck".


Alexia Yates


Ben van Zee


Yijiang Zhong

University of Tokyo

Project: "The Underside of Japan: Capitalism, Empire, and the Production of  Space in Modern East Asia, 1895-1972".


Christel Zunneberg

Oxford University

Project: "Politics of Post-Imperial Memory in Europe".
Stayed at the Free University from July 2019 till June 2020.

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