Dr Barnabás Szabó is a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge. After completing graduate programs in International Relations/European Studies and Nationalism Studies, he obtained his PhD in Comparative History at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna). His doctoral dissertation focused on the establishment of the early modern British and Spanish unions during the late seventeenth, early eighteenth centuries.

Barnabás Szabó’s research broadly investigates the forces of union and disunion, focusing on how territories, jurisdictions, and peoples have come together or drifted apart - processes deeply intertwined with globalization since the early modern era. During his fellowship at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, he aims to launch a longer-term project in applied history, examining the challenges of building a new international order capable of sustaining prosperity and peace in Europe. A central focus is Bavaria - an influential yet often overlooked player in the post-Utrecht European system of the eighteenth century. Using Bavaria as a case study, Barnabás Szabó explores how early modern history can inform our understanding of more recent German history and the evolving European system shaped by waning American engagement and Russian imperial ambition. As the priorities of eighteenth-century diplomacy - security, prosperity, stability, trade, and national interest - reassert themselves amid today’s geopolitical upheavals, Barnabás Szabó expects to draw valuable insights from tracing Bavaria’s path in the European and global order into more recent times.

Further information: https://www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/about/people/dr-barnabas-szabo/

The stay is part of the institute’s cooperation with the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies.

Yuetong Li is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge (Murray Edwards College). Her research examines the popularisation of  historical knowledge in the German-speaking world during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the intersections of cultural history, the history of knowledge, and intellectual history. She is currently conducting research at the IfZ, supported by the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies.

The stay is part of the institute’s cooperation with the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies.

John C. Ellis is a doctoral candidate with the Centre for Geopolitics, Wolfson College, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on British and American foreign policy and the geopolitics of post-Cold War Europe. As a visiting researcher as part of the IfZ’s cooperation with the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies, he will be exploring Anglo-German diplomacy during the period of reunification. 

Dr. Charlotte Woodford ist Fellow und College Associate Professor am Selwyn College an der University of Cambridge und Mitglied der Forschungsgruppe Cultural Production and Social Justice an der Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die schriftstellerische Tätigkeit von Frauen und die Literatur der Moderne. Aktuell ist sie Forscherin im Konsortium CAPONEU (Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe) im Rahmen des Forschungs- und Innovationsprogramms Horizont Europa der Europäischen Union, 2023–2027. Als Gastwissenschaftlerin im Rahmen der Kooperation des IfZ mit dem DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies widmet sie sich ihrem Forschungsprojekt zu Reiseberichten und politischen Romanen von Frauen am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Kürze erscheint von ihr  The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present (Legenda 2025), hrsg. mit Anita Bunyan, and Margarete Tiessen.

Weitere Informationen siehe unter: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/dr-charlotte-woodford

The stay is part of the institute’s cooperation with the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies.

Prof. Dr. Hélène Miard-Delacroix ist seit 2008 ordentliche Professorin für Deutschlandstudien mit Schwerpunkt Neuere und Neueste Geschichte an der Sorbonne Université in Paris. Sie ist Mitglied im Forschungscluster UMR SIRICE (Sorbonne-Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations de l’Europe). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, die Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert und die Geschichte der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen in Europa. Sie schrieb u. a. eine histoire croisée der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen im europäischen Aufbauprozess seit den 1960er Jahren (Deutsch-französische Geschichte 1963 bis in die Gegenwart. Im Zeichen der Europäischen Einigung. Band 11, Darmstadt 2011). Zuletzt erschien ich ihre Monographie über eine vergleichende Emotionsgeschichte der Reaktionen auf eine Welt im Umbruch im Jahr 1989 (Les émotions de 1989. France et Allemagne face aux bouleversements du monde, Paris 2025). Aktuell arbeitet sie an einem Aufsatz zu den deutsch-britisch-französischen Dreieckbeziehungen 1990 - 1996 für einen Band zur neuen deutschen Außenpolitik nach der deutschen Wieder-vereinigung.

Weitere Informationen siehe unter: 

https://lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/personnes/helene-miard-delacroix

Kontakt: helene.miard-delacroix[at]sorbonne-universite.fr

Professor Roni Stauber lectures in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he also serves as the Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center and heads the university's Diploma Program in Archival and Information Science. Additionally, he is a member of Yad Vashem's academic committee.

Prof. Stauber's research primarily focuses on various aspects of Holocaust memory and the development of Holocaust consciousness both in Israel and globally. In particular, he explores the relationships between politics, memory, and diplomacy. In recent years, his studies have concentrated on the initial relations between Israel and Germany, viewed through the perspectives of Israeli leaders and diplomats.

Among the books he has written and edited are: *Lessons for This Generation* (Jerusalem, 2000), which won the Ish-Shalom Award for best academic book in the field of Israeli History; *The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s: Ideology and Memory* (London/Portland, OR, 2007); *Laying the Foundations for Holocaust Research: The Impact of Philip Friedman* (Jerusalem, 2009); *The Roma – A Minority in Europe: Historical, Political, and Social Perspectives* (New York, 2007); and *Collaboration with the Nazis: Public Discourse after the Holocaust* (London, 2010). His latest book, *Diplomacy in the Shadow of Memory: Israel and West Germany, 1953–1965*, was recently published by Yad Vashem and the Zalman Shazar Center.

Weitere Informationen siehe unter: 
https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/diaspora/en_Prof_Roni_Stauber

Kontakt: stauber[at]tauex.tau.ac.il