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Felix Heinert

Doctoral candidate: Subproject A06 - Minorities and majorities in East Central Europe
(First funding period, 2014-2017)

  • Contact

    Herder-Institut
    Gisonenweg 5-7
    35037 Marburg

    ☎ 06421 184-120

  • Vita

    04/2014 - 12/2017
    Research Associate at CRC 138 "Dynamics of Security", Subproject A06 - Minorities and Majorities in East Central Europe

    08/2013 - 03/2014
    Research associate at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne

    09/2012 - 06/2013
    Research assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne

    12/2011
    Visiting fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Leipzig)

    Since 10/2009
    Lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne

    Since 10/2008
    Dissertation project on the topic "Topographies of Jewish self-positioning in the local area of Riga around 1900"

    06 - 10/2008
    (full-time) Consultant for university organization and research associate in the administration at the state-recognized private university Akademie Mode & Design (03/2009-05/2011: part-time)

    07 - 12/2007
    Research associate at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Leipzig)

    2001 - 2007
    Studied Eastern European History, Medieval and Modern History and Sociology at the University of Cologne; M.A. after the 9th semester

  • Research interests

    Eastern (Central) European history in the 19th and 20th centuries

    History of Jews in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries

    City and urban history as well as bourgeoisie research using the example of the cities of Riga, Stanisławów, Pińsk, Užhorod

    Securitization, collective violence

    Nationalism research; empire research, spatial research

  • Memberships and comittees

    Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)
    Verband der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historiker e. V. (VOH)
    Zentrum für vergleichende europäische Studien (ZEUS) an der Universität zu Köln
    Kollegiat der a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne

  • Publications

    2014
    Jewish and non-Jewish Spaces in Urban Context (Sammelband in Vorbereitung, erscheint - voraussichtlich im Herbst 2014 - im Neofelis Verlag, Schriftenreihe 'Jüdische Kulturgeschichte der Moderne', gefördert durch die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung).

    2013
    (Re)Locating Jewishness and Representing Jewish Community in Riga Before and After 1905: Urban Elites, Local Politics, Cultural Self-Representations, and Intracommunal Conflict, in: Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, Frank Grüner, Susanne Hohler, Franziska Schedewie, Raphael Utz, with the assistance of Gregory L. Freeze (Hrsg.), The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective: Identities, Peripheries, and the Flow of Ideas. Festschrift for Heinz-Dietrich Löwe, Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, (Allan K. Wildman Group historical series; 6), S. 121-139.

    2011
    Der Rigaer Kahal - Jüdische Moderne und Rigaer Gegenerzählung, in: Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, Jg. 10, S. 449-472.

    2007
    Ein jüdisches Bildungsprojekt im lokalen Raum Rigas. Die Institutionalisierung jüdischer Aufklärung in Riga um 1900 und die Zielutopien der Gründer des Vereins zur Verbreitung von Bildung unter den Juden in Russland, in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 56, Heft 1, S. 1-49.

  • Scholarships and fellowships

    05 - 07/2013: Research scholarship of the Herder-Institute
    10/2009 - 09/2012: PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
    2008 - 09: Scholarship YIVO Graduate and Faculty Fellowship Programme
    2008 - 09: Leo Baeck Fellow der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
    10/2008: Admission to the doctoral program of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (integrated track)

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