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PD Dr. Sabina Ferhadbegović

Research associate, Heisenberg fellow


PD Dr. Sabina Ferhadbegović is a historian and Heisenberg Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz. She received her doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 2006. From 2007 to 2010, she coordinated the research area “Civil Wars” at the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” at the University of Konstanz. From 2010 to 2016, she was a research associate at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, where she was responsible for the research area “Statehood.” From 2016 to 2022, she led the DFG-funded project “Tribunals: War Crimes Trials in Socialist Yugoslavia” at the University of Jena. Sabina received her habilitation at the University of Jena in 2022 with a postdoctoral thesis on the prosecution of crimes against humanity in the aftermath of the Second World War. In the academic year 2024/25, she held a visiting professorship at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. From September to the end of December 2025, Sabina Ferhadbegović will be a fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, USA.

  • Modern European history
  • International humanitarian law
  • Holocaust Studies
  • History of architecture

  • Recht und Gerechtigkeit? Ahndung von Menschheitsverbrechen in Jugoslawien zwischen Völkerrecht und Partisanenjustiz, 1941-1948, Paderborn 2024 (Krieg in der Geschichte 124), https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796649
  • Justice, in: Forum: Theoretical Concepts of Shaping the Memory, in: Journal of Modern European History 22 (2024) 2, 146-150, https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944241248961
  • The United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Prosecution of War Criminals in Yugoslavia, in: Journal of the History of International Law 24 (2022) 3, 373-390,  https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-bja10066
  • Projections and Representations of Statehood, in: Włodzimierz Borodziej, Sabina Ferhadbegović, Joachim von Puttkamer (Hg.): Statehood: The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. New York 2019, 1-40, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822118-1
  • (mit Brigitte Weiffen): Bürgerkriege erzählen. Zum Verlauf unziviler Konflikte. Konstanz 2011, https://doi.org/10.46500/83539012

Ongoing
May 2025 - April 2029
Gesellschaft

State representation in Eastern Europe between imperial and national rule

Starting with the first World's Fair in London (1851) and continuing through Paris (1867, 1889, 1900), Vienna (1873), and Chicago (1893) to the World's Fairs of the interwar period in Barcelona (1929) and Paris (1937), this project analyzes how world exhibitions influenced the development and representation of statehood and how political change between imperial and national order affected the forms of representation of statehood.
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Ongoing
May 2025 - April 2029
Gesellschaft

Female Rescuers: Humanity and Solidarity during the Nazi Occupation

This project systematically investigates the connections between socialist-communist underground work and women's networks under Nazi occupation along the transregional European flight routes (Soviet Union, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, France).
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