Senior Research Fellowship Programme
In 2013, the IEG created the Senior Research Fellowship Programme for established researchers. It enables the directors to invite respected academics from European countries and outside of 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. For the duration of their fellowship, the institute provides the Senior Research Fellows with office space as well as a guest apartment in the centre of Mainz.
»The IEG offers a remarkably favourable haven for historical scholarship in the heart of Mainz. The
combination of high-calibre researchers undertaking diverse but often overlapping research projects, the
fine library, proximity to the library resources of the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, spacious
facilities, well-appointed accommodation, and collegiate atmosphere make the Institute an ideal resource
for historians in search of space to think, write, and forge new scholarly connections.«
Joshua Bennett, Senior Research Fellow 2022-2023
Senior Research Fellows who have stayed at the Institute since 2013:2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
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| Prof. Dr. Charles van den Heuvel Huygens Institute Amsterdam & University of Amsterdam, Netherlands » Modeling Ontologies of Restoration Practices and Artworks's contexts, evolution and uncertainties« |
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| Dr. Jasper Heinzen University of York, United Kingdom » A Nation on the Move: Germany 1815-1871« |
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| 2024 | |
| Prof. Dr. Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer University of Arizona, USA »Two Churches: Building Religious Diversity and Disrupting Communal Bonds in Early Modern Village Parishes« |
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| Dr. Manuel Francisco Fernández Chaves University of Seville, Spain »Seville and the Iberian Atlantic as a crossroad of merchants (1560-1610)« |
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| Prof. Dr. Arie Dubnov The George Washington University, USA »Dreamers of the Third Empire: Zionism at the Age of Imperial Federalism« |
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| Prof. Dr. Bron Taylor University of Florida, USA »Religion and Environment« |
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| Dr. Alana Harris King's College London, Vereinigtes Königreich »Letitia Fairfield’s Faith, Feminism and Politics of Conscience« |
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| Prof. Dr. Cyrus Schayegh Graduate Institute, Genf, Schweiz »Transimperial History: An Introduction.« |
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| 2023 | |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Driedger Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Kanada »Niederländische Mennoniten und neue religiöse Bewegungen nach dem Reformationszeitalter« |
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| Prof. Dr. Joanne Miyang Cho William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA »German-speaking Jewish Refugees and the Chinese in Shanghai, 1933-1949: An Interdisciplinary Analysis« |
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| Dr. Joshua Bennett University of Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich »The Science of ethics and the beginnings of liberal social thought, 1880–1940« |
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| Prof. Dr. Kaya Şahin Indiana University, Bloomington, USA »Imperial Performances: Ottoman Public Ceremonies, 1457-1582« |
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| 2022 | |
| Prof. Dr. Ronald Rittgers Duke Divinity School, Durham, USA »The Enchanted Word in Early Protestantism« |
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| Prof. Dr. Penny Roberts University of Warwick, Großbritannien »Truth and Secrecy: Clandestine Confessional Activities during the French Religious Wars« |
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| Prof. Dr. Sixiang Wang University of California, Los Angeles, USA »What can the Old Reich teach us about Early Modern Korea: the unwritten constitution of Korea and the Chinese Empire« |
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| Prof. Dr. Ivan Parvev St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria »Jüdischer monarchischer Patriotismus im 18. Jahrhundert« |
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| Prof. Dr. Bron Taylor University of Florida, USA »Religion and Environment« |
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| Prof. Dr. Philip Dwyer University of Newcastle, Australien »The Savage Heart: A Gobal History of Human Violence« |
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| Prof. Dr. Steven Van Hecke Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgien »Innovation reflections on the past and present of European integration history« |
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| Prof. Dr. Kaya Şahin Indiana University, Bloomington, USA »Imperial Performances: Ottoman Public Ceremonies, 1457-1582« |
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| 2021 | |
| Prof. Dr. In-Sub Ahn Chongshin University, South Korea »John Calvin, Reformation, History of the European Calvinism, and the Reformed Churches in Asia« |
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| Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold Université de Strasbourg, France »Redaktion einer Biographie Martin Luthers« |
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| Prof. Martin Kohlrausch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium »Der Aufstieg von Walter Gropius und Le Corbusier als 'Technocelebrities'« |
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| Prof. Dr. Kaya Şahin Indiana University, Bloomington, USA »Imperial Performances: Ottoman Public Ceremonies, 1457-1582« |
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| Prof. Dr. Corine Defrance Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France »Françoise Frenkel (1889–1975): eine jüdisch-polnische Buchhändlerin und Schriftstellerin zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Geschichte und Quellen einer Biographie« |
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| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfeil Université de Lorraine, France »Die historische Dimension von Versöhnung« |
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| 2020 | |
| Prof. Dr. Corine Defrance Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France »Françoise Frenkel (1889–1975): eine jüdisch-polnische Buchhändlerin und Schriftstellerin zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich. Geschichte und Quellen einer Biographie« |
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| Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfeil Université de Lorraine, France »Die historische Dimension von Versöhnung« |
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| Dr. Indravati Félicité Université de Paris, France »Das Alte Reich im Spiegel seiner Außenbeziehungen (16.–18. Jahrhundert)« |
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| Prof. Dr. Carole Fink Ohio State University, USA »Unsettling Arrivals: The Migration of Soviet Jews to West Germany, 1972–1988« |
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| 2019 | |
| Prof. Dr. Alec Ryrie Durham University »Protestant Missionary Enterprises of the 16th and 17th Centuries« |
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| Prof. Dr. Umar Ryad Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium »Europe and the Hajj in the Age of Empire: A Trans-imperial History« |
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| Prof. Dr. Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia Pennsylvania State University, USA Catholic Missions as Global History, 16th–18th centuries |
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| Prof. Dr. Wayne Te Brake State University of New York, USA Religious Peace: A Historical Reflection |
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| Prof. Dr. Karin Friedrich University of Aberdeen Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania: Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620-69) and his World |
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| Prof. Dr. Anna Vind University of Copenhagen Invisibility and Faith. Studies in Luther´s understanding of the life of a Christian |
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| Prof. Dr. Karl Kügle University of Oxford Sound Memories: Religious-Political Difference and the History of European Music in the Age of Reformations |
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| Prof. Dr. Till van Rahden Université de Montréal Forms, Style and Manners: Democracy as a Way of Life in Postwar Europe |
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| Prof. Dr. Patrick Kupper Universität Innsbruck Umweltgeschichte des modernen Europas |
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| 2018 | |
| Prof. Dr. Patrick Kupper Universität Innsbruck Umweltgeschichte des modernen Europas |
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| Prof. Dr. Anthony Steinhoff Université du Québec à Montréal Richard Wagner´s Parsifal and Operatic Culture in German-Speaking Europe, 1860–2000 |
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| Prof. Dr. Michael Moore University of Iowa Formosus und Papstgeschichten der Frühen Neuzeit |
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| Prof. Dr. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Universität Warschau / Historisches Institut der polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (IH-PAN) Warschau The religious factor in peace treaties concluded in early modern Eurasia (Leibniz-Project »Representations of Peace«) |
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| Prof. Dr. Armin Owzar Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam in Colonial Africa, Germany and Europe, 1870–1920 |
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| Prof. Dr. Jean Pascal Gay Université catholique de Louvain Contented consciences. A history of the Reservation of Cases in the Society of Jesus |
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| 2017 | |
| Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Buettner University of Amsterdam »Ethnic Minorities in Postcolonial Europe« |
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| Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rieger University College London »Making society Work. Unemployment and the Transformation of Social Policy, c. 1960–2005« |
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| Prof. Dr. Michael Snape University of Durham »Christianity and War in the twentieth century« |
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| Prof. Dr. Dana L. Robert Boston University, School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts »Transnational Friendships and Fellowship in the Making of World Christianity« |
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| Prof. Dr. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Universität Warschau / Historisches Institut der polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (IH-PAN) Warschau »The religious factor in peace treaties concluded in early modern Eurasia« (Leibniz-Project »Representations of Peace«) |
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| Prof. Dr. Ulinka Rublack University of Cambridge »Cultures of Appearances in Early Modern Germany« |
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| Prof. Dr. Laurent Warlouzet Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale (HLLI), Boulogne-sur-mer »Geschichte der Europäischen Union, globale Wirtschaftsgeschichte (seit 1950)« |
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| Prof. Dr. Barbara Keys University of Melbourne »Anti-Torture Campaigns since 1945« |
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| Prof. Dr. Nicholas Stargardt University of Oxford »Writing social history from subjective sources« |
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| Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Stamatopoulos University of Macedonia »Eastern Question or Balkan Nationalisms? Balkan history reconsidered« |
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| Prof. Dr. Susanna Schrafstetter University of Vermont, USA »Deutsche Juden in Italien, 1933–1950« |
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| 2016 | |
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Prof. Dr. Christophe Verbruggen Ghent University, Belgium »Tracing intellectual movements and cooperation, 19th–20th centuries« |
Dr. Bernhard Struck University of St Andrews, United Kingdom » Modern Europe. A Transnational History, 1760s-2000« |
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Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Tyssens Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium »The infamous abbé Rioust (1756–1829). On priesthood, freemasonry and opportunism in late 18th, early 19th-century France and Belgium« |
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Prof. Dr. Patrick Pasture Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium »A History of Western Christendom since 1500« |
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Prof. Dr. Till van Rahden Université de Montréal, Kanada »Languages of Diversity: Jews and the Ambivalences of Civil Society in Central Europe, 1800 to 1933« |
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| 2015 | |
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Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold Université de Strasbourg, France Redaktion einer Biographie Martin Luthers |
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Prof. Dr. Hugh McLeod Mercator-Fellow des Graduiertenkollegs »Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung ›Europa‹ (1890 bis zur Gegenwart)« University of Birmingham, United Kingdom »The 1960s: A Watershed in Europe's Religious History?« |
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Prof. Dr. Manuel Herrero Sánchez Universität Pablo de Olavide in Sevilla, Spain »The polycentric model of shared sovereignty (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries). An alternative path for the construction of the modern state« |
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Prof. Dr. Gábor Gángó Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary »Eastern Europe in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Political Writings during his Mainz Years (1667-1672)« |
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Prof. Dr. Michael Geyer University of Chicago, USA »Humanitarianism vs. Human Rights, or: Why Human Rights (Law) is in Deep Trouble in Liberal Societies« |
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Prof. Dr. theol. Kaarlo Arffman University of Helsinki, Finland »Revolution des Helfens. Der Versuch der lutherischen Reformation, die von Armut verursachten Probleme zu lösen« |
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| 2014 | |
Prof. Dr. Oleh Turiy Mercator-Fellow des Graduiertenkollegs »Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung ›Europa‹ (1890 bis zur Gegenwart)« Ukranian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine »Religiöse Aspekte des gegenwärtigen Konflikts in der Ukraine« |
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Prof. Dr. Matthieu Arnold Université de Strasbourg, France Redaktion einer Biographie Martin Luthers |
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Prof. Dr. Maria Christina Pitassi Université de Genève, Switzerland »Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)« |
Prof. Dr. Lamin Sanneh Yale University, Connecticut, USA »The Last Great Frontier: Religious Freedom and Citizenship. A Comparative Historical Inquiry« |
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Dr. Daniel Laqua University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England »Campaigns beyond borders? Histories of Transnational Activism in Europe« |
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Prof. Dr. Charles-Edouard Levillain Université Paris Denis-Diderot, France »François-Paul de Lisola (1613–1675)« |
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Prof. Dr. Andrew Thompson University of Exeter, United Kingdom »Humanitarianism and Human Rights at the End of Empire« |
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| 2013 | |
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey L. Cox University of Iowa, USA »Religious Socialization of Young People in Germany, Britain, and the USA since 1949« |
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Prof. Dr. Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė Vilnius University, Lithuania »Abraham Culvensis: Germany and Prussia as an intellectual context of identity of the pioneer of the Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania« |
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Prof. Dr. Salvador Rus Rufino University of León, Spain »Spanische Übersetzung und kritische Edition des Textes von Samuel Pufendorf über den Zustand der Natur« |
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