Ongoing
Jan. 2026
Since January 2026, she has been working as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1482 “Human Differentiation”, in the sub-project “European Refugees between South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Spatial Self-Positioning and External Categorisation in the 20th Century”.
She completed her studies in History as well as in Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2025 with a Master’s degree in History. In her Master’s thesis, she examined the everyday lives of Jewish Displaced Persons in the market town of Wartenberg from 1945 onwards, analysing social structures, cultural practices and the experiences of Jewish survivors after the Shoah.
Her research interests lie in Jewish history, Holocaust Studies, and the history of migration and forced displacement.
In her doctoral project, using the example of the Middle East, she investigates how European refugees between 1930 and 1970 negotiated their spatial and social positions within colonial and postcolonial contexts. Drawing on selected biographies, she demonstrates that forced migration triggered long-term processes of negotiating belonging in the Middle East and within European reference contexts, shaped by political, social and religious factors.
Methodologically, the study combines biographical case analyses with the examination of colonial and postcolonial processes of human differentiation. By interweaving microhistorical perspectives with transregional approaches, it demonstrates how multiple forms of belonging emerged. In doing so, the project contributes to the social history of the twentieth century.
• Jewish history
• Holocaust studies
• Migration history
• Refugee History
