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Senior Research Fellowship Programme

   

In 2013, the IEG created the Senior Research Fellowship Programme for established researchers. It enables the directors to invite respected academics from European countries and outside of Europe to Mainz to pursue their own research and to exchange ideas with the academics working at the IEG. The programme facilitates and strengthens existing cooperation, and potentially lays the groundwork for new shared research projects. Senior Research Fellows usually come to Mainz for between two and six months. For the duration of their fellowship, the institute provides the Senior Research Fellows with office space as well as a guest apartment in the centre of Mainz.
 

»The IEG offers a remarkably favourable haven for historical scholarship in the heart of Mainz. The
combination of high-calibre researchers undertaking diverse but often overlapping research projects, the
fine library, proximity to the library resources of the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, spacious
facilities, well-appointed accommodation, and collegiate atmosphere make the Institute an ideal resource
for historians in search of space to think, write, and forge new scholarly connections.«

Joshua Bennett, Senior Research Fellow 2022-2023

Senior Research Fellows who have stayed at the Institute since 2013:

2023  2022  2021  2020  2019   2018   2017   2016   2015   2014   2013
   
2023  
  Prof. Dr. Michael Driedger
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Kanada
»Niederländische Mennoniten und neue religiöse Bewegungen nach dem Reformationszeitalter«
 
  Prof. Dr. Joanne Miyang Cho
William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
»German-speaking Jewish Refugees and the Chinese in Shanghai, 1933-1949: An Interdisciplinary Analysis«
 
  Dr. Joshua Bennett
University of Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
»The Science of ethics and the beginnings of liberal social thought, 1880–1940«
 
  Prof. Dr. Kaya Şahin
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
»Imperial Performances: Ottoman Public Ceremonies, 1457-1582«
 
   
2022  
  Prof. Dr. Ronald Rittgers
Duke Divinity School, Durham, USA
»The Enchanted Word in Early Protestantism«
 
  Prof. Dr. Penny Roberts
University of Warwick, Großbritannien
»Truth and Secrecy: Clandestine Confessional Activities during the French Religious Wars«
 
  Prof. Dr. Sixiang Wang
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
»What can the Old Reich teach us about Early Modern Korea: the unwritten constitution of Korea and the Chinese Empire«
 
  Prof. Dr. Ivan Parvev
St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria
»Jüdischer monarchischer Patriotismus im 18. Jahrhundert«
 
  Prof. Dr. Bron Taylor
University of Florida, USA
»Religion and Environment«
 
  Prof. Dr. Philip Dwyer
University of Newcastle, Australien
»The Savage Heart: A Gobal History of Human Violence«
 
  Prof. Dr. Steven Van Hecke
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgien
»Innovation reflections on the past and present of European integration history«
 
  Prof. Dr. Kaya Şahin
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
»Imperial Performances: Ottoman Public Ceremonies, 1457-1582«
 
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2021  
  Prof. Dr. In-Sub Ahn
Chongshin University, South Korea
»John Calvin, Reformation, History of the European Calvinism, and the Reformed Churches in Asia«
 
  Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold
Université de Strasbourg, France
»Redaktion einer Biographie Martin Luthers«
 
  Prof. Martin Kohlrausch
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
»Der Aufstieg von Walter Gropius und Le Corbusier als 'Technocelebrities'«
 
  Prof. Dr. Kaya Şahin
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
»Imperial Performances: Ottoman Public Ceremonies, 1457-1582«
 
  Prof. Dr. Corine Defrance
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
»Françoise Frenkel (1889–1975): eine jüdisch-polnische Buchhändlerin und Schriftstellerin zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Geschichte und Quellen einer Biographie«
 
  Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfeil
Université de Lorraine, France
»Die historische Dimension von Versöhnung«
 
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2020  
  Prof. Dr. Corine Defrance
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
»Françoise Frenkel (1889–1975): eine jüdisch-polnische Buchhändlerin und Schriftstellerin zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Geschichte und Quellen einer Biographie«
 
  Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfeil
Université de Lorraine, France
»Die historische Dimension von Versöhnung«
 
  Dr. Indravati Félicité
Université de Paris, France
»Das Alte Reich im Spiegel seiner Außenbeziehungen (16.–18. Jahrhundert)«
 
  Prof. Dr. Carole Fink
Ohio State University, USA
»Unsettling Arrivals: The Migration of Soviet Jews to West Germany, 1972–1988«
 
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2019  
  Prof. Dr. Alec Ryrie
Durham University
»Protestant Missionary Enterprises of the 16th and 17th Centuries«
 
  Prof. Dr. Umar Ryad
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
»Europe and the Hajj in the Age of Empire: A Trans-imperial History«
 
  Prof. Dr. Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Catholic Missions as Global History, 16th–18th centuries
 
  Prof. Dr. Wayne Te Brake
State University of New York, USA
Religious Peace: A Historical Reflection
 
  Prof. Dr. Karin Friedrich
University of Aberdeen
Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania: Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620-69) and his World
 
  Prof. Dr. Anna Vind
University of Copenhagen
Invisibility and Faith. Studies in Luther´s understanding of the life of a Christian
 
  Prof. Dr. Karl Kügle
University of Oxford
Sound Memories: Religious-Political Difference and the History of European Music in the Age of Reformations
 
  Prof. Dr. Till van Rahden
Université de Montréal
Forms, Style and Manners: Democracy as a Way of Life in Postwar Europe
 
  Prof. Dr. Patrick Kupper
Universität Innsbruck
Umweltgeschichte des modernen Europas
 
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2018  
  Prof. Dr. Patrick Kupper
Universität Innsbruck
Umweltgeschichte des modernen Europas
 
  Prof. Dr. Anthony Steinhoff
Université du Québec à Montréal
Richard Wagner´s Parsifal and Operatic Culture in German-Speaking Europe, 1860–2000
 
  Prof. Dr. Michael Moore
University of Iowa
Formosus und Papstgeschichten der Frühen  Neuzeit
 
  Prof. Dr. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
Universität Warschau / Historisches Institut der polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
(IH-PAN) Warschau
The religious factor in peace treaties concluded in early modern Eurasia
(Leibniz-Project »Representations of Peace«)
 
  Prof. Dr. Armin Owzar
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris
Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam in Colonial Africa, Germany and Europe, 1870–1920
 
  Prof. Dr. Jean Pascal Gay
Université catholique de Louvain
Contented consciences. A history of the Reservation of Cases in the Society of Jesus
 
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2017  
  Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Buettner
University of Amsterdam
»Ethnic Minorities in Postcolonial Europe«
 
  Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rieger
University College London
»Making society Work. Unemployment and the Transformation of Social Policy, c. 1960–2005«
 
  Prof. Dr. Michael Snape
University of Durham
»Christianity and War in the twentieth century«
 
  Prof. Dr. Dana L. Robert
Boston University, School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts
»Transnational Friendships and Fellowship in the Making of World Christianity«
 
  Prof. Dr. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
Universität Warschau / Historisches Institut der polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
(IH-PAN) Warschau
»The religious factor in peace treaties concluded in early modern Eurasia«
(Leibniz-Project »Representations of Peace«)
 
  Prof. Dr. Ulinka Rublack
University of Cambridge
»Cultures of Appearances in Early Modern Germany«
 
  Prof. Dr. Laurent Warlouzet
Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale (HLLI), Boulogne-sur-mer
»Geschichte der Europäischen Union, globale Wirtschaftsgeschichte (seit 1950)«
 
  Prof. Dr. Barbara Keys
University of Melbourne
»Anti-Torture Campaigns since 1945«
 
  Prof. Dr. Nicholas Stargardt
University of Oxford
»Writing social history from subjective sources«
 
  Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Stamatopoulos
University of Macedonia
»Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalisms? Balkan history reconsidered«
 
  Prof. Dr. Susanna Schrafstetter
University of Vermont, USA
»Deutsche Juden in Italien, 1933–1950«
 
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2016  
 
 

Prof. Dr. Christophe Verbruggen
Ghent University, Belgium
»Tracing intellectual movements and cooperation, 19th–20th centuries«
 
 
Dr. Bernhard Struck
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
» Modern Europe. A Transnational History, 1760s-2000«
 
 
 
 
 


Dr. Hanna-Maija Ketola
Mercator-Fellow des Graduiertenkollegs »Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung
›Europa‹ (1890 bis zur Gegenwart)«
University of Helsinki, Finland
»Relations between the Church of England and the Russian Orthodox Church during the Second World War«

 

 
 
 

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Tyssens
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
»The infamous abbé Rioust (1756–1829). On priesthood, freemasonry and opportunism in
late 18th, early 19th-century France and Belgium«
 
 
 

Prof. Dr. Patrick Pasture
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
»A History of Western Christendom since 1500«
 
   
 
 
Prof. Dr. Till van Rahden 
Université de Montréal, Kanada
»Languages of Diversity: Jews and the Ambivalences of Civil Society in Central Europe, 1800 to 1933«
 
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2015  
   
 
 
Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold
Université de Strasbourg, France
Redaktion einer Biographie Martin Luthers
 
   
 
 
 
 
Prof. Dr. Hugh McLeod
Mercator-Fellow des Graduiertenkollegs »Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung
›Europa‹ (1890 bis zur Gegenwart)«
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
»The 1960s: A Watershed in Europe's Religious History?«
 
   
 
 
 
Prof. Dr. Manuel Herrero Sánchez
Universität Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla, Spain
»The polycentric model of shared sovereignty (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries).
An alternative path for the construction of the modern state«
   
 
 
Prof. Dr. Gábor Gángó
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
»Eastern Europe in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Political Writings during his Mainz Years (1667-1672)«
 
 
 

Prof. Dr. Michael Geyer 
University of Chicago, USA
»Humanitarianism vs. Human Rights, or: Why Human Rights (Law) is in Deep Trouble in Liberal Societies«
 
 

Prof. Dr. theol. Kaarlo Arffman 
University of Helsinki, Finland
»Revolution des Helfens. Der Versuch der lutherischen Reformation, die von Armut
verursachten Probleme zu lösen«
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2014  
 
Prof. Dr. Oleh Turiy
Mercator-Fellow des Graduiertenkollegs »Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung
›Europa‹ (1890 bis zur Gegenwart)«
Ukranian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
»Religiöse Aspekte des gegenwärtigen Konflikts in der Ukraine«
 
 

Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold
Université de Strasbourg, France
Redaktion einer Biographie Martin Luthers
 
 

Prof. Dr. Maria Christina Pitassi
Université de Genève, Switzerland
»Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)«
 
Prof. Dr. Lamin Sanneh
Yale University, Connecticut, USA
»The Last Great Frontier: Religious Freedom and Citizenship. A Comparative Historical Inquiry«
 
Dr. Daniel Laqua
University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England
»Campaigns beyond borders? Histories of Transnational Activism in Europe«
 
Prof. Dr. Charles-Edouard Levillain
Université Paris Denis-Diderot, France
»François-Paul de Lisola (1613–1675)«
 
Prof. Dr. Andrew Thompson
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
»Humanitarianism and Human Rights at the End of Empire«
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2013  
 
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey L. Cox
University of Iowa, USA
»Religious Socialization of Young People in Germany, Britain, and the USA since 1949«
 
Prof. Dr. Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė
Vilnius University, Lithuania
»Abraham Culvensis: Germany and Prussia as an intellectual context of identity of the
pioneer of the Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania«
 
Prof. Dr. Salvador Rus Rufino
University of León, Spain
»Spanische Übersetzung und kritische Edition des Textes von Samuel Pufendorf
über den Zustand der Natur«

 
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