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Dr Barbara Christophe (Fellow)
Regional foci: Baltic States, Caucasus, Central Asia
Thematic foci: Processes of transformation and democratisation; nationalism; state-building; ethnic conflicts
Barbara Christophe
Branch Office #1 Room 2.10
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-221
[Research - Head of Research Group Globalization]
Email: send
Julia Förster, MA (fellow, doctoral candidate)
Regional foci: Yemen, Sudan, Arab Peninsula, Northeast Africa
Thematic foci: construction of national identities, ethnic-religious conflicts, transnational and translocal education, history of colonial and postcolonial education
Prof. Dr. Eckhardt Fuchs (Deputy Director)
Regional foci: Europe, North America
Thematic foci: research profile and strategy; support of junior researchers at the institute; historical research about education; world and global history; the history of science and historiography
Eckhardt Fuchs
Main Building Office E 2.08
Tel.: +49 (0)531 590 99 50
Dr Susanne Grindel (fellow)
Regional foci: France, Europe
Thematic foci: memory cultures and the political uses of history, colonial memory, Franco-German history textbook, economic education
Susanne Grindel [Research]
Branch office E 2.04 Email: senden
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123 103 -211 Fax: +49 (0)531 123 103 -299
Roderich Henrÿ (fellow)
Regional foci: Canada, China
Thematic foci: ecology and sustainable development; digital knowledge media
Roderich Henrÿ
Main Building Office E 2.14
Tel.: +49 (0)531 590 99 57
Henning Hues, MA (fellow, doctoral candidate)
Regional focus: South AfricaThematic foci: classroom studies/ethnography; post-conflict societies; dealing with human rights violation in the classroom; post-apartheid South Africa
Henning Hues
Main Building Room 2.04
Tel.: +49 (0)531 59099-46
[Research/Sholarship]
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Prof. Dr. Simone Lässig (Director)
Thematic foci: the profile and perspectives of the Georg Eckert Institute; Jewish history; European history; social, economic and business history; memory cultures and media of history
Simone Lässig
Main Building Office E 2.09
Tel.: +49 (0)531 590 99 52
Dr Robert Maier (Project coordinator)
Regional foci: Russia, Poland, CIS, Czech Republic
Thematic foci: Stalinism; dealing with the legacy of totalitarian societies; Europe in textbooks; national and regional images of history; German-Polish relations; didactics of history, transnational educational media
Robert Maier
#2 E 1.05
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-271
Marcus Otto, MA (Fellow)
Countries of specialisation: France, Europe
Thematic foci: Modern History, Conflict Research, Intercultural Dialogue, Postcolonial Studies, Discourse Analysis
Marcus Otto
Main Building Room 2.11
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-217
Verena Radkau GarcÃa, MA (Fellow)
Regional focus: Latin America
Thematic foci: The institute in the public sphere; teaching in Latin-American transformation societies (Guatemala); memory cultures; teaching National Socialism and genocides; didactics of history
Verena Radkau-GarcÃa
Main Building Office E 2.12a
Tel.: +49 (0)531 590 99 56
Dr Dirk Sadowski (fellow)
Regional focus: Israel
Thematic foci: German-Israeli Textbook Commission; the history, politics and culture of Israel; Jewish history
Dirk Sadowski
Branch Office #2 Room 1.01
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-281
Thomas Strobel, MA (fellow, doctoral candidate)
Regional foci: Poland, Central and Eastern Europe
Thematic foci: German-Polish Textbook Commission; the history of international textbook revision; the politics of memory; German-Polish relations
Thomas Strobel
Branch Office #2 Room 1.01
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-272
Dr Stephanie Zloch (fellow)
Regional foci: Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Germany
Thematic foci: European regional history, representations of space, nationalism, migration in the twentieth century
Stephanie Zloch
Branch office #2 Room 1.02
Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-284