Current research & travel grant recipients (2026)
Isayn Abdullaev (University of California, Berkeley)
Between Three Black Eagles: Policing Poland from Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, 1815–1866
Lee Barich (University of Waterloo)
Modernity, Decay, and Dysfunction: A Comparative History of East and West Berlin
Victoria Bergbauer (Emory University, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry)
Carceral Mobilities: Punishment and Displacement across Central Europe
Henry Phillip Blood (New York University)
How to Stop a Riot: Railroad Worker Unrest in the Habsburg Empire before 1848
Xavier Boulanger (Université de Montréal)
Surviving Under a False Identity: A Comparative Study of the Living Condition of “Hidden” Jews in Paris and Vienna (1941-1945)
James Brueckel (Boston University)
Shoring Up the Nation: Making the North German Landscape, 1924-1987
Genevieve-Louise Dally-Watkins (Harvard University)
To Kill and To Cure: Health, Ecology, and Radioactivity from the Twentieth Century to Today
Suaina Danziger (Princeton University)
Dissolving Orders, Dissembling Selves: An Intellectual History of Intelligence and International Security, 1916-1950
Elijah-Matteo Ferrante (Columbia University)
Migration, Mental Health and Psychiatry in West and Reunified Germany (1945-2000)
Caleb J. Fouts (Syracuse University)
Beyond the Border: Transnational Networks, Identity, and Resistance in the Italo-Yugoslav Borderland
Emily Azalia Needham (University of Virginia)
Divided City, Divided World: the Berlin Wall and Decolonization
Frédérick Poulin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Between Red and Black. The Völkischer Beobachter: Evolution of a Multifaceted Propaganda Instrument (1920–1945)
Stephanie Truskowski (University of Notre Dame)
The Maximilian Moment: The Transatlantic Ideal of Liberal Monarchy
Kathleen Walsh (Washington University in St. Louis)
Consuming and Collecting “Germanness”: Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Narratives of Identity in German-speaking Central Europe, 1867 – 1938