Gastwissenschaftler/innen am IfZ

Das Institut beherbergt stets auch Gastwissenschaftlerinnen und Gastwissenschaftler aus dem In- und Ausland, die die renommierte Infrastruktur des Instituts nutzen und ihre Projekte zur Diskussion stellen. Neben den Fellowships des Berliner Kollegs Kalter Krieg sowie den Fellowships des Zentrums für Holocaust-Studien am IfZ und den EHRI-Fellowships ermöglicht auch ein DAAD-Fellowship einen Aufenthalt am IfZ im Rahmen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. Darüber hinaus begrüßt das IfZ seit 2019 Historikerinnen und Historiker der University of Cambridge, die im Rahmen des bilateralen Fellowship-Programms mit dem DAAD Cambridge Research Hub for German Studies vier Wochen am Institut verbringen.

Gastwissenschaftler/innen 2026

Beatrice Leeming is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge where she looks at the professionalisation of memorial sites to the victims of National Socialism since the 1990s, considering, especially, the transfer of authority from survivors to ’stewards'. Her doctoral dissertation, funded by the Cambridge Trust, focuses on the various actors involved in the transformation of memorials into multi-faceted Lernorte and at the interface of public and political interest. In Munich, Beatrice will continue to write up her doctoral research while also conducting preliminary research for a planned postdoctoral project.

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

Dr. Trevelyan Wing will be joining the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) as a Senior Visiting Fellow from the University of Cambridge, where he serves as a Fellow of the Centre for Geopolitics (CfG) and of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG); a Bye-Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College; and an Honorary Research Associate of Peterhouse. Dr. Wing’s present research explores transatlantic relations as well as pressing security challenges in Northern and Northeastern Europe, with a current focus on energy issues. In Munich, he will be preparing his monograph on the development and wider implications of Germany’s energy transition (‘Energiewende’).

Previously, Dr. Wing was a Zukunftskolleg Fellow of the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment and Research Associate of the University of Heidelberg, where he was the recipient of an award from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2020, he was named a ‘Young Leader’ and one of ‘the most promising and passionate…change-makers of 30 years or younger’ by EUROCITIES and Urban Future for his work, for which he has also been featured by the BBC, Al Jazeera, RTÉ, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, l’Opinion, and elsewhere.

In Cambridge, Dr. Wing has taught German and French politics as part of the undergraduate programmes in History & Politics and Human, Social, & Political Sciences; postgraduate students in the Environmental Policy MPhil programme; undergraduates for Land Economy modules on energy policy; and supervised postgraduate and undergraduate dissertations on decarbonisation pathways, Arctic security, and Ukraine. His volume Maidan: The 2014 Revolution in Ukraine and the Baltic is due to be released by Hurst Publishers this autumn.

A native of New England, Dr. Wing holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil from the University of Oxford, and a BA from Dartmouth College.

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

Vanessa Mader is a PhD student in History at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), working on German thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within the Political Theory and Intellectual History subject group. She is interested in philosophies of history after Kant, the question of progress in modernity, history and theory of historiography, and the impact that our understanding of history has on the construction of political subjectivities. The other strand in her research concerns the history of Marxism and the intellectual Left. Before pursuing her PhD, she completed an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and an MA in European Studies at Yale University, with a focus on modern social and intellectual history. She holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Her doctoral dissertation examines the critiques of progress in the thought of Martin Heidegger and the thinkers associated with the early Frankfurt School, situated in the context of the legacies of Kant and Hegel. She will be conducting parts of this research at the IfZ.

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

Jonathan Marrow is a PhD Student in History at the University of Cambridge (Clare College), where he researches transnational Holocaust memory, in particular the development of Holocaust tourism from the 1960s to the present. His doctoral dissertation analyzes the growth and promotional strategies of tour operators; the presentation of Holocaust sites in travel guidebooks, brochures, and popular media; and the initiatives of religious, nonprofit, military, and governmental organizations that sponsored or encouraged such travel. During his time in Munich at the IFZ, he will conduct fieldwork at Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, as well as at Documentation Obersalzberg and other sites of National Socialist memory in the area. Marrow holds an MSt degree in Jewish Studies with distinction from the University of Oxford, and a MPhil in American History with distinction from Cambridge.

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

Zoé Konsbruck ist Doktorandin am Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) an der Universität Luxemburg, wo sie zur Geschichte der Deindustrialisierung in Luxemburg forscht. In ihrem Promotionsprojekt untersucht sie den Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2000 und richtet den Blick besonders auf die sozialen und politischen Folgen des industriellen Niedergangs für die Stahlstädte im Süden Luxemburgs und der Großregion. Ihre Forschung analysiert, wie lokale Akteure - darunter Politiker, Arbeiter, Anwohner und Gewerkschafter - diese tiefgreifenden Veränderungen wahrnahmen, erlebten und darauf reagierten. Außerdem beleuchtet sie die Rolle der Gemeinden bei der Ausgestaltung nationaler und europäischer Krisenpolitiken während der Stahlkrise.

Darüber hinaus ist sie Mitentwicklerin von Rust & Research, einem edukativen Kartenspiel, das die Geschichte der Deindustrialisierung spielerisch vermittelt. Das Spiel beschäftigt sich mit der Transformation des Belval-Stahlstandorts von einem industriellen Zentrum zu einem modernen Universitätscampus und lädt Spieler dazu ein, sich mit den sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und räumlichen Dimensionen des industriellen Wandels und der städtischen Neugestaltung auseinanderzusetzen.

Ehemalige Gastwissenschaftler/innen

Im Folgenden finden Sie einen Überblick über die Gastwissenschaftlerinnen und Gastwissenschaftler, die in den letzten Jahren am Institut für Zeitgeschichte gearbeitet haben: