Team

Prof. Dr Anti Selart

IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Medieval and early modern history of Baltic area, Baltic crusades, interconfessional relations, medieval Livonia

Prof. Dr Ingvild Folkvord

IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Literature, terrorism and law, Ernst Cassirer’s theory of culture, translation studies, voice phenomena

Prof. Dr Annelie Ramsbrock

IRTG Vice Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, history of the body, medicine and punishment, history of knowledge, theory of history

Prof. Dr Eckhard Schumacher

IRTG speaker, Supervisory Board member

Literary and media studies, contemporary literature, digitization, pop culture

Oksana Alekseev

PhD Researcher

Political sociology, identity narratives, Russian minority, political attitudes

Rauno Alliksaar

PhD researcher

Medieval church history, monasticism, history of communication, non-verbal communication

Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Riho Altnurme

Supervisory Board member

History of theology in Estonia, methodology and historiography of church history, interconfessional relations, secularisation

Prof. Em. Laura Assmuth, Ph.D.

Mercator Fellow

Mobility and migration, borders, translocal familyhood, life course, inequality, Eastern and Northern Europe, ethnographical methodology, research ethics

Elise Barring Berggren

PhD Researcher

Norwegian-Jewish history, post-Holocaust restitution, digital humanities, quantitative and qualitative methods

Prof. Dr Hubertus Buchstein

Supervisory Board member

Democratic theory, history of political ideas, politics of history, right-wing extremism

Prof. Dr Margit Bussmann

Supervisory Board member

Peace and conflict research, foreign policy analysis, security in the Baltic Sea region

Louise Curtis

Research Student

Political and social theory, intellectual history, translation theory

Sidsel Boysen Dall

PhD Researcher

Schema theory, narratology, health humanities

Anna Derksen

Assistant lecturer

Nordic & Scandinavian welfare history, disability history, cultural studies, body politics & eugenics

Prof. Dr Roman Dubasevych

Supervisory Board member

History and culture of Ukraine, psychoanalysis, trauma, Holocaust, film studies, pop culture

Josephine Eckert

PhD Researcher

Public History, history of the 20th century, GDR history, memory studies, conflicting memory

Lea Garcia

PhD Researcher

Memory studies, museum studies, postcolonial studies, cultural identity, cultural heritage

Prof. Dr Anne Gjelsvik

Supervisory Board member

Intermediality and adaptation, terror and violence in film, gender representation in film

Andreas Eliassen Grini

PhD Researcher

World War II, Northern Scandinavia, Sámi, Wehrmacht, ideology

Prof. Dr Marina Grishakova

Supervisory Board member

Comparative literature, literature and philosophy, narratology, cognitive humanities, intermedial studies

Paula Friedericke Hartmann

PhD Researcher

Graphic novels, memory studies, the Holocaust and its aftermath, representation of war in literature

Ingeborg Rebecca Mjelde Helleberg

PhD Researcher

Henriette Hellinger

PhD Researcher

Medieval Nordic history, gender and sexuality history, church history, Canon Law and clerical life

Prof. Dr Cordelia Heß

Supervisory Board member

Nordic history, antisemitism, saints cults in the Baltic Sea Region, minorities

Hanna Horn

PhD Researcher

Slavic literature studies, Digital Humanities, Auto/biography online, Digital dictatorship(s)

Natalia Iost

PhD researcher

International Relations, conflict studies

Prof. Dr Helge Jordheim

Former Supervisory Board member

Intellectual culture, conceptual history, temporalities

Dr Antje Kempe

Postdoctoral researcher (associated)

Early modern and contemporary art, Eastern and Northern Europe, garden and landscape architecture, art and nature in the discourse of the Anthropocene, memory culture, art historiography

Prof. Dr Stephan Kessler

Supervisory Board member

19th and 20th century Latvian & Lithuanian literature, the idyll in Poland and Lithuania around 1800, narratology, theory of metaphor

Paul Kirschstein

PhD researcher

Histories and literatures of the Nordic countries, environmental history

Laura Klein

Research student

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, British politics, cultural studies and intercultural aspects in foreign language teaching

Prof. Dr Ene Kõresaar

Supervisory Board member

(Auto)biographical research, memory studies, museum studies, post/Socialism studies

Gonzalo Landau Brenes

Former Research Student

Late antiquity in Hispania, Visigoth and Spanish history

Hella Liira

PhD researcher

Space, transitory spaces, non-lieux, heterotopias, intertextuality, gender in correlation with identity, sexuality, power and movement

Dr Verena Liu

Former postdoctoral researcher (associated)

Music (education), opera, gender studies, historic popular music, canon and repertoire in music, ethnographical methods

Assoc-Prof. Dr Terje Loogus

Supervisory Board member

Translation theory, translation and culture

Rezeda Lyykorpi

PhD researcher

Collective and cultural memory, politics of memory, ethnic identity

Luise Markwort

Research student

Scandinavian culture and literature, cultural identity, heritage studies, pop culture

Prof. Dr Jochen Müller

Supervisory Board member

Legislatures, political parties, political attitudes and behavior

Prof. Kristoffer Neville, Ph.D.

Mercator Fellow

Early modern culture in Northern Europe, architecture and arts history, topography and historiography, royal courts and court culture

Prof. Dr Mathias Niendorf

Supervisory Board member

History of Lithuania, Polish-German relations, nations and nationalisms

Martin Nõmm

PhD researcher

Baltic exile literature, trauma studies, diaspora studies, comparative literature

Prof. Em. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Michael North

Former Supervisory Board Member

Monetary and financial history, history of commerce and culture, Baltic Sea Region

Victoria Oertel

PhD researcher

Philosophy of medicine, history of medical theory, narratological concepts of health & disease

Prof. Dr Andreas Ohme

Supervisory Board member

Russian, Czech and Polish literatures, narratology, genology, methodology, intermediality

Douglas Ong

PhD researcher

Commemoration of traumatic experiences in Central-Eastern Europe

Artis Ostups

PhD researcher

Trauma studies, philosophy of history, narrative theory, Eastern European literature

Prof. Dr Marko Pantermöller

Supervisory Board member

Old Literary Finnish, morphosyntax, language and research history, multilingualism, language attitudes and contact, translation studies

Nina Pilz

PhD researcher

Narratology, discourse analysis, medical humanities, narratives of crisis, literature and space

Leah Preisinger

Former Research Student

Narratology, multilingualism in literature, cultural and postcolonial studies, equality of representation

Prof. Dr Clemens Räthel

Supervisory Board member

Scandinavian theatre and literature, Jewish-Scandinavian relations, contemporary Scandinavian opera architecture, queer voices in literature, health/disease

Jan Reinicke

PhD Researcher

Protest, photography, visual history

Sophie Schulze

Former Research Student

German literature and epistemology, 20th century literature

Dr des. Benjamin Schweitzer

PhD researcher

Linguistics, Finnic philology, special languages/terminology, linguistic culture analysis

Tim Senkbeil

PhD Researcher

Narratology, narration and construction of time, post-GDR-literature, contemporary German literature

Adelīna Skerškāne

Research Student

Post-modernistic concepts in literature, Latvian regional languages

Charlotte Steinert

PhD Researcher

Discourse analysis, immigration politics, right-wing politics, dog-whistles, anti-muslim racism

Prof. Dr Jan Süselbeck

Supervisory Board member

Affect theory, literary antisemitism (18th -21st century), transmission of literature in the media, cultural memory studies, generational theory, the Holocaust and its aftermath, representations of war in literature and film, contemporary literature, German-language Jewish literature