Pia Schöngarth M.A.
Manager Fellowship Programme, Alumni officer, member of the Staff Council
Fellowship and Guest Programme
IEG Fellowship Programme
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) awards 6 to 12-month fellowships to doctoral students and postdocs from Germany and abroad. Funding is available for research projects that engage with the religious, political, social, and cultural history of Europe from the early modern to the contemporary periods. We particularly welcome projects that adopt a transnational or comparative perspective as well as those investigating religious, intellectual, and environmental history or employing digital methodologies.
Call for Applications
The calls for applications for fellowships for doctoral students are announced twice a year in June and December, while those for postdocs and the digital humanities fellowship are announced once a year.
Good reasons for a fellowship at the IEG
- a space to focus: The Institute offers its fellows time and space to concentrate on completing their dissertation or pursuing their individual research projects.
- accommodation in the centre of Mainz: Fellowships are residential; PhD fellows live and work in the Institute building in Mainz.
- opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange: In an international forum, fellows hone their methods and research questions for interdisciplinary historical research on Europe. The IEG offers a wide range of academic activities and access to international cooperation partners.
- a community of international scholars: a unique opportunity for emerging and experienced scholars to socialise and collaborate.
- academic infrastructure: Fellows have access to the Institute’s research library, bespoke workspaces as well as the academic infrastructure of Mainz.
- easy access to natural and historic sites: The Institute building in the heart of Mainz, with its over 400 years of history, is a unique landmark. It is embedded in a city and wider region that offer a host of cultural events as well as leisure and sports activities.
- mentoring, network, and contacts: As a fellow, you are a full member of the IEG community and its international alumni network. A mentoring programme connects PhD fellows with our research associates.
Alumni testimonials
“The contact with scholars working at the IEG has been very helpful in finding the necessary support to work on my dissertation. Especially helpful has been being in touch with my mentor […]. Other doctoral and postdoctoral fellows, researchers, and professors at the IEG have provided me with an exciting intellectual setting to learn and share ideas and historical knowledge.”
Carla Andrés Bauzá, Fellow 2024-2025
“The excellent conditions at the IEG have not only helped me to advance enormously with the writing, but have provided me with incredible emotional and material support for this final phase of the writing. I am very grateful to the IEG Doctoral Fellowship programme for offering me this space and support to finish the final phase of my current research. My stay at the IEG has also served me to establish contact with several researchers and institutions in the German academic environment whose existence I was unaware of. […] Ultimately, my presence at the IEG has also helped me to come into contact with new lines of research, theoretical tools and new methodologies that have influenced my research and will do so in the future. Although I was already familiar with the tools of Global and Transnational History, the presence in a non-Spanish academic environment has allowed me to expand the horizons of my research towards a less nationally based, more global and comparative perspective.”
Javier Martínez Dos Santos, Fellow 2025
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