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Past Associated Fellows 2024, Past Fellows 2022
Callie Wilkinson studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
After her global dis:connect fellowship (2021-2022), Callie stayed with the centre as a MSCA fellow funded by the ERC (2022-2024).
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Callie Wilkinson
Callie Wilkinson studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
Bearing Witness in Wartime: The East India Company's Soldiers in the Public Domain, 1764-1857
At global dis:connect, Callie is investigating how Company soldiers’ testimony affected broader discourses about the Company’s military operations in an age before professional war correspondents. Have a look at Callie’s research poster about her project and find out more about the workshop Callie organized during his fellowship together with Tom Menger. Please click HERE to watch an interview with Callie.
14 February 2025
Philipp W. Stockhammer is a professor of prehistoric archaeology focussing on the Eastern Mediterranean at the LMU Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has received an ERC Starting Grant (2015), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020) and is a PI of collaborative research projects on the Bronze and early Iron Ages from Central Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean. His research focuses on transculturality, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific data concerning social belonging, mobility, food and health.
Benjamin Schmidt is the Bridgman Professor of History at the University of Washington. His work sits at the crossroads of cultural history, visual and material studies, and the history of science. He focuses chiefly on Europe’s engagement with the world in the first age of globalism. His books include Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, winner of the RSA Gordan Prize, and Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World, finalist for the Kenshur Prize. His most recent book, The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (with T. Weststeijn), is forthcoming this year.
Ben joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Silke Reeploeg is an Associate Professor at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) where she teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social history. Her research focuses on memory cultures and hidden histories (including gender history). Other research interests are: critical arctic studies, heritage cultures, micro-historical approaches, and anti-/decolonial perspectives. Before coming to Greenland in 2018 Silke worked at the University of Karlstad, Sweden and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland (based in the Shetland Islands).
Silke joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Jie-Hyun Lim holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He has published on nationalism, Marxism, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He is a principal investigator of the Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) research project and edits the Entangled Memories in the Global South series among others. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism-Global History and Memory (2024), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (2024) and Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (2022).
Jie-Hyun joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonisation, the global Cold War and histories of South Asia. Her books include Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (OUP, 2022) and The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 (CUP, 2017). She is also chief editor of the Journal of Global History.
Elisabeth joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Catherine Gidney is an adjunct research professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. Her research focuses on the intersection of the history of education and other fields such as youth culture, health and religion in 20th-century Canada. She most recently authored Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools (Between the Lines, 2019) and co-edited Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press, 2022). In 2016 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
Catherine joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Lachlan Fleetwood is historian of science, empire, geography and the environment. He completed a PhD at Cambridge and subsequently held fellowships at University College Dublin and Yale. He comes to LMU as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. His work focuses on the uneven imposition of ostensibly global environmental categories by empires in the long nineteenth century. His research also investigates how geographical features like mountains and deserts can serve as scales for new global histories of science, empire and labour. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
Peter Becker is a professor of Austrian History in Vienna. Before joining the University of Vienna, he was a professor in European History at the EUI in Florence. His research covers criminology as discourse and institutional practice, state building, governance and public administration, with a focus on the interplay between regional and national actor networks, global policy formation and international organisations: Remaking Central Europe (2020), edited with N. Wheatly in 2020 and A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe (2023), ed. with T. Zahra.