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.
Appartment
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.
Documents
Documents
- detailed information
- application form
- Guideline for Final Report and publication
- Guest Apartment
- Childcare
Fellows 2026
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. Ekaterina Vikulina (Lettland)
Historical Topography of the Riga Ghetto: Archival Photographs, Historical Maps, and Textual Sources
Fellows 2025
Dr. Inna Ganschow (Luxemburg)
Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the War (U-CORE) (Living Archives Projekt)
Ragne Soosalu (Estland)
Baltic German women artists in Estonia from 1890-1939
Dr. hab. Hubert Wilk (Polen)
Consumer Socialism: Consumers and the State in Central and Eastern Europe in the light of cartoons since 1960
Juliette Bretan (Großbritannien)
The „Pole“: East-Central Europe, political geography, and modern literature
Dr. Bogusław Kosel (Polen)
Nazi visual propaganda for the nations of Baltic States
Christoph Beitl (Österreich)
Transformationen westeuropäischer Gewerkschaften in den Jahren 1980 – 1989 im Prisma der Beziehungen zur unabhängigen Gewerkschaftsbewegung Solidarność
Piotr Opałka (Polen)
Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape in the Area of the Former Duchy of Nysa
Dr. Alona Bilokon (Ukraine)
Documenting the Impact of Russia’s War on Ukraine’s Energy System (Living Archives Projekt)
Róisín Healy (Irland)
Politics on the Periphery: Ireland and Prussian East Compared
Oleksandr Fylypchuk (Ukraine)
Is Rus’ Studies a Colonialist Discipline? The Uses of the Medieval Past during the Russian-Ukrainian war
