Prof Dr Birgit Emich

Director

Early Modern History

Dr Andreea Badea

Researcher

Early Modern History

Kevin Christian Klein

Researcher

Early Modern History

Michael Leemann

Researcher

Early Modern History

Former Team Members

Prof Dr Dorothea Weltecke

Co-Director 2020–2021

Associate Fellow, Medieval History

Dr Ralph Barczok

Researcher

Medieval History

Dr Cesare Santus

Researcher

Early Modern History

Dr Bernd Andreas Vest

Researcher

Medieval Eastern Mediterranean

Dr Bruno Boute

Researcher

Early Modern History

Frankfurt Fellows

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.

Prof Dr Rebekka Voß

“Entanglement”

2023 – 2024

Prof Dr Markus Wriedt

“Symbolical Communication”

2022 – 2023

Prof Dr Christine Ott

“Speech and Register”

October 2021 – March 2022

Fellows

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.

Dr Bruno Boute

University of Louvain, Belgium

 

August 2024 – March 2025

Dr Cecilia Cristellon

Goethe University Frankfurt

 

January – March 2024

Prof Dr Simon Ditchfield

University of York, UK

 

May – July 2022

Dr Jörg Feuchter

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

April – September 2022

Dr Kateryna Kovalchuk

University of Oxford, UK

 

March – June 2022

Dr Svitlana Potapenko

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv

March – July 2022

Dr Oksana Prokopyuk

National Preserve Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine

March – July 2022

PD Dr Klaus Peter Todt

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

 

May – July 2022

Dr Samuel Weber

University of Bern, Switzerland

 

June – July 2022

Dr Dominik Fugger

Goethe University Frankfurt

 

April – June 2021

Dipl. mus. Nelly Sturm, MMus

 

 

March – September 2021

Prof Dr Julia Herzberg

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

 

October 2020 – March 2021

Dr Iryna Klymenko

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

 

October 2020 – March 2021

Prof Dr Klaus Koschorke

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.

Prof Dr Marco Cavarzere

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Dr Cecilia Cristellon

Goethe University Frankfurt

Dr Níels Páll Eggerz

Goethe University Frankfurt

Dr Maria Teresa Fattori

Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy

Dr Elisa Frei

Goethe University Frankfurt

Prof Dr Massimo Carlo Giannini

Università degli Studi di Teramo, Italy

Prof Dr Ute Lotz-Heumann

University of Arizona

PD Dr Elke Morlok

Goethe University Frankfurt

Dr Cesare Santus

Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

Prof Dr Xenia von Tippelskirch

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.

Dr Ivan Almes

Early Modern History

Dr Svitlana Potapenko

Early Modern History

Dr Oksana Prokopyuk

Early Modern History

Dr Vitalii Tkachuk

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.

Winter Term 2023/24

Dr Martin Bauch

Leibniz Institute for the History and 

Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig

 

Prof Dr Cecilia Cristellon

Goethe University Frankfurt

 

Prof Dr Irina Saladin

University of Koblenz

 

Summer Term 2023

Winter Term 2022/23

Dr Ivan Almes

Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv

 

Winter Term 2021/22

Prof Dr Xenia von Tippelskirch

Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen

 

Summer Term 2021

Prof Dr Simon Ditchfield

University of York, UK