21.02.2019

Senior Research Fellowship Programme

We are happy to welcome Karin Friedrich from the University of Aberdeen as Senior Research Fellow at the IEG. During her time in Mainz, she will work on her research project "Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Poland: Boguslaw Radziwill (1620–69) and his World".
Her research focuses on the German-Polish borderlands in the context of early modern Europe and issues of cultural transfer, citizenship, religious and political identities, and the constitution of early modern commonwealths.

Karin Friedrich studied history and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. In 1995, she gained her PhD in History at the Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Since 2012 she holds a Chair in Early Modern European History at the University of Aberdeen.



In 2013, the IEG established the Senior Research Fellowship Programme for established researchers. It enables the directors to invite respected academics from other European countries and outside 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, during which they can organize an expert workshop on a topic of their choice, which fits into the research programme of the Institute.