Prof. Dr. Anne Friedrichs

Since 2018, I have been a researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Leibniz Institute for European History, where I lead the project B05 on “Legal-Bureaucratic Human Categorisation in the Postwar Period: From ‘Displaced Persons’ to ‘Refugee’”. During the academic year 2023-24, I will  be Visiting Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

After studying history and cultural studies (Kulturwissenschaften) in Leipzig and Lyon, I received my PhD in 2010 with a thesis on the transformation of imperial knowledge in British and French historiography in the 20th century. I then worked in the Presidential Committee at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2010-2015) and completed research fellowships in Warsaw and Paris (2014/15); I was also a research assistant in Bielefeld (2015-2017) and Gießen (2017/18).  I habilitated in 2023 with a study on “Belonging in Transition. A European Social History of the Ruhr Poles, 1860-1950”.

My research interests combine the history of Europe in its Atlantic, imperial and postcolonial contexts in the 19th and 20th centuries with a methodological-conceptual orientation. Thematically, I focus on the transformation of societies under the lens of mobility and conflict over multiple belonging, as well as on the production and transfer of (post)imperial knowledge.

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