As part of the Liberalism Colloquium 2025 in Berlin, PD Dr. Sarah Panter, currently a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen and a research associate at the IEG from 2013 to 2025, received the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize yesterday. She was honored for her postdoctoral thesis “Revolutionäre Familien. Die transatlantischen Leben der ›Achtundvierziger/Forty-Eighters‹, 1848/49–1914”. We congratulate her warmly!
The Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Prize is awarded annually for academic work that makes an outstanding contribution to the foundations, history, and politics of liberalism in Germany, Europe, and beyond.
The laudatory speech was given by historian and jury member Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sieg from the University of Marburg. The speaker particularly praised the high intellectual level, innovative approach, and captivating narrative of the work, whose spatial and temporal references extend far beyond the year 1848/49. Sieg emphasized the intergenerational approach and the impressive international source base. He also highlighted the importance of the study for understanding current transatlantic relations and America’s ambivalence(s).
Sarah Panter currently holds the Chair of Modern History (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Tübingen. From 2013 to 2025, she was a research associate at the IEG. Her research focuses on transatlantic migration, the history of the European revolutions of 1848/49 in their global and colonial contexts, especially in relation to slavery and Euro-American settler colonialism, biography and mobility research, and family history.
Image rights: IEG. Photographer: Angelika Stehle
