Research

Collaborative Research Projects

Mnemonic Populism in Contemporary Europe

Volkswagen “Freigeist” Junior Research Group 
April 2023 – März 2029
Principal Investigator: Kornelia Kończal
Team Members: Melis Konakçı and Hannah von Legat 
Associated Members: Aleksandr Rusanov, Eugenia Scanferla, Anastasia Serikova and Nikolai Shpilkov
 

lexi.eco: Concepts in Contexts

in cooperation with the University of Lille, France, University of Mainz, Germany, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and University of Tartu, Estonia, in cooperation with EuroClio. European Association of History Educators (The Hague, Netherlands), the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine and the House of European History in Brussels, Belgium 

Erasmus+ KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education

December 2024 – November 2027

Principal Investigators: Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine), Mischa Gabowitsch (University of Mainz, Germany), Kornelia Kończal, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Eva Piirimäe (University of Tartu, Estonia), Thomas Serrier (University of Lille, France), Steven Stegers (EuroClio, The Hague, Netherlands) 

Research Manager: Olga Olkheft
 

German Concentration Camps: From Personal Testimonies to Sociological Theories 

in cooperation with Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and Touro University Berlin
funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation
September 2023 – December 2026
Principal Investigators: Piotr Filipkowski (Warsaw), Stephan Lehnstaedt (Berlin) and Kornelia Kończal

Individual Research Projects

Historical Museums under Putin and Stalin: Propaganda of Wars

PhD project funded by the DAAD
July 2024 – September 2027
PhD Researcher: Anastasia Serikova
Supervisor: Kornelia Kończal; Second Reader: Mischa Gabowitsch (Mainz)


Politicized and Depoliticized Global Medievalism in Russia, 2010–20s

Post-Doc project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
October 2024 – September 2026
Post-Doc Researcher: Aleksandr Rusanov


Right-Wing Populist Parties and Historical Revisionism in the United Kingdom and Turkey

PhD project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
July 2025 – June 2028
PhD Researcher: Melis Konakçı
Supervisor: Kornelia Kończal; Second Reader: N.N. 


Soldiers of Odin: Constructions of Masculinity in the Reception of the Viking Age and Their Appropriation by Contemporary Right-Wing Populism in Germany and Scandinavia 

PhD project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
July 2025 – June 2028
PhD Researcher: Hannah von Legat
Supervisor: Kornelia Kończal; Second Reader: N.N. 
 

Rock, Memory, and Conflicts: The Heritagization of Soviet Rock Music in the Post-Soviet Space

Post-Doc project funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
January 2026 – December 2027
Post-Doc Researcher: Alexandra Kolesnik 

Gender, Reform and Agency in Social Protection: A Transnational Prosopography of Women Physicians in Europe, 1864–1925 (GRASP) 

Post-Doc project funded by the Bielefeld Young Researchers Fund
January 2026 – December 2026
Post-Doc Researcher: Mascha Bratishcheva

History Education and Mnemonic Populism in Contemporary Belarus

PhD project funded by the DAAD
September 2026 – August 2030
PhD Researcher: Nikolai Shpilkov 

Completed Research Projects

Post-German Heritage, Branding and the “Production of Locality” in Masuria

in cooperation with the Foundation for Landscape Protection and Promotion of Regions NUMINOSUM, Warsaw   
funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation
October 2022 – December 2025    
Principal Investigators: Wojciech Bedyński (Warsaw) and Kornelia Kończal