Director
Early Modern History
Researcher
Early Modern History
Researcher
Early Modern History
Researcher
Early Modern History
Student Assistant
Early Modern History
Student Assistant
Early Modern History
Student Assistant
Early Modern History
Student Assistant
Early Modern History
Co-Director 2020–2021
Associate Fellow, Medieval History
Researcher
Medieval History
Researcher
Early Modern History
Researcher
Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Researcher
Early Modern History
Hailing from the fields of Jewish studies, romance literature, and theology, our three Frankfurt Fellows greatly enrich the interdisciplinary work of the POLY Research Group. Together with the directors, they supervise the research group’s work on the lines of approach to the main research areas in the Frankfurt Grid.
“Entanglement”
2023 – 2024
“Symbolical Communication”
2022 – 2023
“Speech and Register”
October 2021 – March 2022
The POLY Research Group fellowship program provides scholars with the opportunity to join us at the Goethe University Frankfurt for a maximum of six months to conduct research and participate in our activities. Frankfurt is one of the most vibrant, well-connected cities in Germany or the EU. Fellowship support typically includes lodging, travel expenses, and/or teaching release funds. Hereafter, you can find a list of our fellows in chronological order.
University of Louvain, Belgium
August 2024 – March 2025
Goethe University Frankfurt
January – March 2024
University of Cambridge, UK
May – July 2023
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
May – July 2023
University of York, UK
May – July 2022
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
April – September 2022
University of Oxford, UK
March – June 2022
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
March – July 2022
National Preserve Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine
March – July 2022
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
May – July 2022
University of Bern, Switzerland
June – July 2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
April – June 2021
March – September 2021
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
October 2020 – March 2021
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
October 2020 – March 2021
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Senior Fellow
Winter Terms of 2021/22 and 2022/23
Affiliated researchers in Frankfurt and elsewhere regularly participate in our meetings and presentations, enriching our research with their perspectives and advice.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Goethe University Frankfurt
Goethe University Frankfurt
Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy
Goethe University Frankfurt
Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy
University of Arizona
Goethe University Frankfurt
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Goethe University Frankfurt
Well before war returned to our continent, both the Chair for Early Modern History and the POLY Research Group at Frankfurt University had been a venue for talks, workshops, and less formal discussions on the striking variety of denominations, religions, and religious dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe between Christianities, Judaism, and Islam as well as between and within intersecting brands of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christianities. As we had come to discover the region as an excellent vantage point to explore the plurality and polycentricity of premodern Christianities, further plans were under way. Since March 2022, the POLY Research Group has been reinforced by Ukrainian Researchers. Their work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and by the Ukraine Emergency Programme of the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Early Modern History
Early Modern History
Early Modern History
Early Modern History
Early Modern History
The POLY Research Group fellowship program provides scholars also with the opportunity to join us at the Goethe University Frankfurt for short periods to conduct research and participate in our activities. Frankfurt is one of the most vibrant, well-connected cities in Germany or the EU. Short-term fellowship support typically includes lodging, travel expenses.
Leibniz Institute for the History and
Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig
University of Copenhagen
Goethe University Frankfurt
University of Minnesota
Birkbeck, University of London
University of Warwick
University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
University of York
University of Mainz
University of Koblenz
KU Leuven
Macalester College
University of Vienna
Stockholm University, Sweden
University of Bologna, Italy
Free University of Berlin
Ruhr University Bochum
Westphalian Wilhelm University Münster
Fordham University, USA
Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
University of Erfurt
Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
Princeton University, USA
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen
Fresno State University, USA
Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
University of Konstanz
University of Hamburg
Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen
Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
Boston University, USA
University of Bern, Switzerland
University of York, UK
University of Louvain, Belgium
University of Oxford, UK
Leiden University, Netherlands
Yale University, USA
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
University of Cambridge, UK