Herzog-Ernst- und Hiob-Ludolf-Fellows 2025

In diesem Jahr kommen sieben Fellows u.a. aus Äthiopien, Frankreich und den USA nach Gotha, um gemeinsam mit uns am Forschungskolleg Transkulturelle Studien / Sammlung Perthes zu arbeiten:
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. Gebreyesus Teklu Bahta (Mekele University)
Projekt: Geopolitics and border disputes in Northern Ethiopia and Southern Eriteria
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
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)