At the Crossroads of Modernity. Double-Entry Accounting, Business, and Cultural Practices of Jews in Imperial Russia's Western Borderlands, Funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (in cooperation with the University of Haifa) Dr. Katja Wezel
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Completed research project "The Cosmopolitan City. Riga as a Global Port and International Capital of Trade (1861-1939)"
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Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
37073 Göttingen
+49-(0)551-39-24863
katja.wezel@uni-goettingen.de
Office MZG 6.155
Consultation hours Wednesday 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. or by appointment.
Since 07/2023
Research Associate in the project "At the Crossroads of Modernity. Double-Entry Accounting Business, and Cultural Practices of Jews in Imperial Russia's Western Borderlands" at the Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Göttingen
12/2021 – 06/2023
Feodor-Lynen-Research Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at the University of Latvia in Riga
2021
Fellowship at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena
2018 – 2021
Research Associate in the BKM funded project “The Cosmopolitan City. Riga as a Global Port and International Capital of Trade (1861-1939)” at the Department for Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August University Göttingen
2013 – 2018
DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, USA
2011
PhD at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg with a topic on memory politics in post-Communist Latvia (published in German as Geschichte als Politikum. Lettland und die Aufarbeitung nach der Diktatur. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2016.)
2011
Second state exam for teaching in History and English
2010 – 2011
Instructor, Department of History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
2008 – 2009
Research Associate in East European History, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
2005 – 2008
Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Junior Research Group (Graduiertenkolleg) “Overcoming Dictatorships in Europe”, Heidelberg University
2004
MA in History and English at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
1999 – 2004
Studies in History and English at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Wales in Aberystwyth and the European University in St. Petersburg
2021 – 2023
Feodor-Lynen Fellowship, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
2021
Fellowship, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
2015, 2017
REES Faculty Travel Grant, Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
2016
Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Faculty Research on the European Union Grant, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
2015
Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung [Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship], dissertation publication grant
2008
DAAD Research Fellowship, Research Grant for Graduate Students
2007
Young Researchers Award, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2005 – 2008
Graduate Student Fellowship, Heinrich Boell Foundation
2002 – 2003
DAAD Undergraduate Study Scholarship, Annual Grant
2000 – 2001
Erasmus, European Union Scholarship