Azadeh Sharifi
Azadeh Sharifi is a theatre and performance scholar who holds the chair for the theory and history o...
Current fellows
The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
Short-term scholarships furnished by the Munich Centre for Global History supplement this programme. Actively integrating the epistemic potential of the arts is vitally important to global dis:connect because they can offer counternarratives to hegemonic discourses, to supposed certainties and to entrenched viewpoints (including scholarly ones). The opportunities — and risks — of artistic research and its critical position towards society and scholarship have barely been incorporated into academic research, methods, practices and results.
Mark Häberlein
Mark Häberlein is a professor of early modern history at the University of Bamberg. His research focusses on the economic, social, urban and cultural history of the early modern period and on the history of North America and the Atlantic world. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Augsburg. He was Feodor Lynen Fellow at Pennsylvania State University in 1999-2000 and a DFG Heisenberg Fellow from 2001-2004. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2022 and is chairman of the Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte e.V.
The project deals with the intensifying relations between Central Europe and North America in the 18th century. More than 100,000 Germans and Swiss emigrated to the New World by 1800, and 30,000 German soldiers were deployed in the American War of Independence. By means of transatlantic migration, religious minorities and dissidents from Central Europe were ‘exported’ to North America. Secular networks of merchants, ship-owners and business travellers as well as religious communication and support networks developed. In addition, an independent German-American culture emerged in Pennsylvania.
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Mark Häberlein
Click HERE to email Mark.
Click HERE for a list of publications.
Mark Häberlein is a professor of early modern history at the University of Bamberg. His research focusses on the economic, social, urban and cultural history of the early modern period and on the history of North America and the Atlantic world. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Augsburg. He was Feodor Lynen Fellow at Pennsylvania State University in 1999-2000 and a DFG Heisenberg Fellow from 2001-2004. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2022 and is chairman of the Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte e.V.
The project deals with the intensifying relations between Central Europe and North America in the 18th century. More than 100,000 Germans and Swiss emigrated to the New World by 1800, and 30,000 German soldiers were deployed in the American War of Independence. By means of transatlantic migration, religious minorities and dissidents from Central Europe were ‘exported’ to North America. Secular networks of merchants, ship-owners and business travellers as well as religious communication and support networks developed. In addition, an independent German-American culture emerged in Pennsylvania.
Carlo De Nuzzo
Carlo is currently a research fellow at Sciences Po. His research interests include political violen...
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
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Filipe dos Reis
Filipe is an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and International Orga...
Hadeel Abdelhameed
Hadeel is a critical-theatre scholar and historian of SWANA countries. Her intellectual interest is ...
Harald Fischer-Tiné
Harald is a professor of modern global history at ETH Zürich. Before joining ETH, he was an assist...
Katy Deepwell
Katy is an art critic based in London. She is the founder and editor of KT press (1998-present) and ...
Sarah E.K. Smith
Sarah is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations at We...
Siddharth Pandey
Siddharth is a writer, artist and cultural critic from Himachal Pradesh. He has a PhD in literary an...
Toby Yuen-Gen Liang
Toby is an associate professor at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s national academy of sciences. He speci...
Ulinka Rublack
Ulinka is a professor of early modern history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of the Briti...
