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Melanie Falzetta

Research Associate, SFB Project Part Von den "Displaced Persons" zum "Flüchtling"

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Since September 2025: Research Associate in the SFB subproject “From ‘Displaced Persons’ to ‘Refugees’.”
Education: Completed studies in History as well as Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in July 2025, earning a Master’s degree in History.

Research interests:
• Jewish history
• Holocaust studies
• Migration history

Ongoing
2026 - 2029
Gesellschaft

European Refugees between South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe: Self- and External Categorisations in Contested Spaces of the Twentieth Century

This project reconstructs the significance of European refugees for the transfer of global categories (e.g. “refugee”, “Sh’erit ha-Pletah”, and “Holocaust survivor”) between internationally contested spaces in the twentieth century.
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