C²DH Fellowship Programme
The C²DH fellowship programme is an opportunity for researchers from around the world to complete a research stay in Luxembourg, at the Belval Campus. The programme is open to both early-career and experienced researchers with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary research in contemporary history. The fellows are expected to pursue their own research while also sharing ideas, practices, and skills with C²DH scholars. As an international hub in digital history, with a team representing 26 different nationalities, the C²DH offers the possibility of establishing new contacts and developing new cooperation.
BUCCALON CARUSO, Bruno, Rice University, United States. Visiting student, March-July 2024.
KIZHNER Inna, Postdoctoral Fellow at the E-Lijah Lab - Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Haifa, Israel. Visiting researcher, March-April 2024.
WINGO Rebecca, Associate Professor of History and the Director of Public History at the University of Cincinnati, US. Visiting researcher, August - October 2024.
ZHANG Xu, Renim University of China.
Global South Fellowship
IBRAHIM, Mina: anthropologist and archivist (Egypt), post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg in Germany. Visiting fellow, October 2024
SAPUTRA, Eko: interdisciplinary artist and researcher (Indonesia). Visiting fellow, November 2024
MUFWANKOLO, Nayansaku: artist (Switzerland), lecturer in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory as well as the Delegate of Diversity and Inclusion at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD– Genève). Visiting fellow, December 2024
LI, Na: Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore
DHH Visiting Researcher
Scholars welcomed by the Digital History and Historiography (DHH) research group:
- FEICHTINGER, Moritz: principal investigator of the SNSF-founded research project “Computing the Social” at the University of Basel. Visiting researcher, September- November 2024
- SIMON-MARTIN, Meritxell: Université de Rennes, France. Visiting researcher, February 2024.
- THELEN, Sarah: Programme coordinator for the Certificate in CPD in Digital Education at the University College Cork. Visiting researcher, July 2024.
- WIRSCHING, Andreas: Professor of contemporary history at the University of Munich and the director of the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin (IfZ). Visiting researcher, May-October 2024.
Public Historian in Residence
Scholars welcomed by the Public history and outreach (PHO) research group:
- Adila Laïdi Hanieh, former director of the Palestinian Museum
- MIKDADI, Salwa: Public Historian in Residence : Founding Director and Principal Investigator of al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art (2020- , NYUAD) and Professor of Practice in Art History at NYU Abu Dhabi (2013- )
- MULLER, Caroline: Historian at the Université de Rennes, France. Visiting researcher, September - October 2024 (co-invited by PHO and EHI).
- NDUBA, Wairimũ: Public Historian in Residence : multidisciplinary creative and researcher, community manager at African Digital Heritage (Kenya).
Transnational Scholar in Residence
Scholars welcomed by the History of Luxembourg (LHI) research group:
GRUZIEL, Dominik, Senior Researcher and Coordinator in the ERC project “Social Politics in European Borderlands, 1870” at the European University Institute, Italy. Visiting researcher, May 2024.
KACI Maxime, Associate professor in history at the University of Franche-Comté. Visiting researcher, May 2024.
OSTAFI Corina, Doctoral student at the University of Luxembourg. Visiting PhD, February-April 2024.
OTRISHCHENKO Natalia, Sociologist and coordinator of oral history projects at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine. Visiting researcher, November 2024.
SHEVCHENKO Valentyna, Historian and Archivist at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine. Visiting researcher, October-November 2024.
Visiting EHI Research Fellows
Scholar welcomed by the History of Europe (EHI) research group:
BERMÈS Emmanuelle, Archiviste paléographe et conservatrice générale des bibliothèques, Ecole des Chartes, Paris, France. Visiting researcher June 2024 (Erasmus +).
More visiting researchers
MULLER, Caroline: Historian at the Université de Rennes, France. Visiting researcher, September - October 2024 (co-invited by PHO and EHI).
TAVARES, Marianna: Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Visiting Student, January-October 2024.
More about the cooperation with Marianna Tavares in
C2DH Fellowship Testimonial
Rebecca S. Wingo | Fall 2024
"As a public historian with a specialty in community archives, I work with several communities to record, repatriate, and reassemble their histories. I have ongoing partnerships with the Wyandotte Nation (Oklahoma), Apsáalooke Nation (Montana), and Rondo neighborhood (Minnesota). I spend a lot of time thinking about how academics working at institutions with long records of extraction can empower communities to tell and control their own narratives.
One of the issues the permeates all these partnerships is the question of sustainability, particularly for digital projects that are hosted and maintained by the community rather than an academic institution. The C2DH is one of the few centers in the world that explicitly blends digital and contemporary history. As I continue to explore this issue that I’m calling “a sustainable shared authority,” I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with the faculty and staff at the center.
My fellowship was designed around developing a community-based sustainability plan with the Rondo community as we redevelop our “Remembering Rondo” project. With its participatory focus history, I followed the development of Historesch Gesinn closely and was thrilled to learn about one of their new tools for community-generated identifications in historic photographs. This is exactly the kind of tool that my Rondo partners would like to implement, and the developers generously agreed to put their code on GitHub so I (and others) can replicate their process.
During my fellowship period, I enjoyed the concentrated work time that being away from home affords. I managed to start writing a grant for the Rondo project, submit a fellowship application, and still make progress on the two books I currently have under contract. While that quiet contemplation was exactly what I needed, the energy of the C2DH community is contagious, too. My own public history program at the University of Cincinnati is quite small by comparison, and I relish conversations from other practitioners when I attend my annual conferences. At the C2DH, the vibrancy and generative work of “thinkering” is available on a daily basis rather than relegated to the conference season.
There were a lot of unanticipated perks to my fellowship period, too. I got to help welcome the first cohort of students in the MADIPH program and co-teach their introductory public history course with Thomas Cauvin. Dr. Cauvin also asked me to review the program’s structure and statement of public history values, and I look forward to importing some of the program’s strengths into my own program. I also got to brainstorm exciting ideas and advise on projects with the center’s postdocs and PhD students over many lunches and coffees.
I highly recommend spending some time “thinkering” with the folks at the C2DH. I am grateful for their culture of generosity and collegiality, and I look forward to integrating some of this ethos into my own program when I return from sabbatical."