19. September 2025

Herder Fellowships

The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe is pleased to offer annual fellowships-in-residence to scholars to support significant research and writing about the history of East Central Europe.

The Herder Fellowship Program is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels (doctoral students, postdocs and proven experts in historical research on East Central Europe), especially from East Central European countries and other Western European countries. It enables a short-termvresearch stay up to four weeks in the library and the scientific collections of the Herder Institute and is endowed with € 1,900. Fellows have the option of staying in our guest apartment in the Behring Villa for the duration of their stay. In addition, the fellows have the opportunity to present their project plans at one of the meetings of the Herder Institute Research Academy.

The Herder Institute’s annual competition for fellowships opens every April.
Applications must be received no later than on August 15.
Applicants will benotified of the competition outcome by October 15.

Contact

Ansprechperson

Larissa Friedrich M.A.

stipendien@herder-institut.de

Tel.: +49 6421 184-200

Documents

Fellows 2026

Dr. Marianna Petiaskina (USA)

Institutions of Resistance: Baltic Academia and Imperial Power in the 19th Century

Anna Herran (Kanada)

Contested Memories Worth a Century: The Interwar Period as a (un)usable past in the Czech lands and Estonia 1918-2018

Dr. Valentina Spune (Lettland)

Die Rezeption des Mesmerismus im deutsch-baltischen Kulturraum des 18./19. Jahrhunderts: ein Kapitel der baltischen Intellektuellengeschichte

Prof. Dr. Anna G. Piotrowska (Polen)

Performing Violence? Performing Identity?: Cultural Stereotypes and the Re-Negotiation of Romani Identity in Communist Poland

Dr. Feliks Gornischeff (Estland)

Revisiting the legacy of Baltic German diplomats in the service of the Russian Empire in the early 19th century

Dr. Maarja Merivoo-Parro (Finnland)

Monograph on Global Estonian Diaspora: chapter on Estonian DP-s in Germany

Dr. Kęstutis Kilinskas (Litauen)

The Implementation of the ‘Blood and Soil’ ideal in interwar Lithuania and its tradition in the post-1990 era as the way to create social group of the ‘founding fathers of the state’ (Visiting Fellow des SOL Projekts)

Dr. Martín Alejandro Duer (Argentinien)

Socialist Space, labour, and order: everyday worker negotiation in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1953-1968

Dr. Thomas Związek (Polen)

Landscape of the Borderland – Shaping Space on the Prussian–Russian Frontier in the Polish Lands at the Turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Dr. Philip Padbiarozkin (Belarus)

Der sächsische Adel auf dem Weg nach Livland (13.–15. Jahrhundert): historiographische und quellenkritische Aspekte

Dr. Magdalena Kozłowska (Polen)

Three Lives in Parallel: Jewish Threads, Political Dissent, and Transnational Encounters in the Biographies of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Vilém Bernard, and Wanda Brońska-Pampuch

Artur Kawiński (Polen)

Die Geschichte Danzigs und Pommerns in der deutschen Wissenschaft und Bildung während der Nazizeit (1933–1945)

Dr. Ekaterina Vikulina (Lettland)

Historical Topography of the Riga Ghetto: Archival Photographs, Historical Maps, and Textual Sources

Blogbeiträge

A summer internship at the Herder Institute

In early May 2018, I moved from Toronto to Marburg to begin my summer internship at the Herder Institute, seeking to “develop European perspectives.” I chose to come to Marburg exclusively because of the institute’s focus: as an MA student in European Affairs at the University of Toronto focusing on Central European history, interning at a center exclusively entirely to the study of Central European history represented a unique opportunity that I would not have elsewhere.
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From the perspective of a fellow: Damian Zając on Central and Eastern European Spa towns after World War II and his research stay at the Herder Institute

In our new blog series, our scholarship holders report on their research topic and how they were able to approach it in our collections: This time Damian Zając on „Transformations of architecture and spatial planning of spa towns in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II“. Damian Zając had a research stay at the Herder Institute in August 2023. He is a PhD student at the University of Wrocław.
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From the perspective of a fellow: Dr. Inna Ganschow on how Ukrainian Narrators are Co-Shaping their Data Environment in an Oral History Participatory Experiment.

In our blog series, our scholarship holders report on their research topic and how they were able to approach it in our collections: This time LivArch-fellow Dr. Inna Ganschow on the U-Core project and questions about handling sensitive interview data.
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