Visiting Fellows and Guests

Visiting Fellows 2011/12

Prof. Dr. Olaf Mörke

Fields of interest/research: Reformation history, early modern urban history, cultural and political history of the early modern Netherlands, political culture in early modern Europe in a comparative perspective.

Currently, I am writing a book with the provisional title ‚History of the Baltic’ (‚Geschichte des Ostseeraumes’). The survey starts with the neolithicum and ends with the present process of European integration. Its leading idea is focussed on patterns of cultural transfer in a broader sense within the region itself and between the Baltic and the ‚rest of the world’.

Volker Prott, PhD researcher European University Institute (EUI), Florence

Volker’s areas of interest cover late modern European political and international history with a specific focus on borders. He is working on a PhD thesis entitled ‘International Concepts and Practices of Territorial Borders in the Interwar Period’. Volker is visiting the Centre for Transnational Centre on a newly arrange exchange programme between the EUI and St Andrews / Centre for Transnational History.