Herzog Ernst and Hiob Ludolf Fellows 2025
This year, seven fellows from countries including Ethiopia, France, and the USA are coming to Gotha to work with us at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection.
Junior Fellows
Charlotte Prauß (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Projekt: Wissen unterwegs – oder: Wie Wissen an die Universität Göttingen kam (1880 bis in die 1930er Jahre)
Tobias Wagemann (Ecole normale supérieure, ENS-PSL, Paris)
Projekt: Colonial Policing in the Pacific Ocean: A Comparative Study of British and German New Guinea
Postdoc Fellows
Dr. Terefi Mekonnen Bekele (Addis Ababa University)
Projekt: A Historical Analysis of Changes in the Northern Ethiopian Enviroment. Tracing the Evolution of Deforestation and Desertification using Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Gotha Historical Maps
Hiob Ludolf Fellows
Prof. Dr. Mirela Altić (Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb)
Projekt: Tracing Jesuit Geographical Knowledge of South and South-East Asia. The Intersections of Jesuit Science and Traditional Non-Western Knowledge in the German Visual Imaginary
Prof. Dr. Lindsay Frederick Braun (University of Oregon)
Projekt: Development of Cartography and Related Settler-Borne Knowledge in South Africa from the 1850s to 1910
Prof. Dr. Michael C. Carhart (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)
Projekt: Simon Pelloutier and the Celtic Century & Begriffsgeschichte of the Variscan Orogeny
Dr. Enali Maria De Biaggi (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon)
Projekt: A Closer Look at German Medical Cartography. The Production of the Seuchen Atlas (1942–1945)
