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".
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
Somei Kobayashi
Nihon University
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."
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.