Chiara Johannesmeier

PhD project
since Jan. 2023
"Europe as a space of experience and the search for order. Civic self-positioning in post-fascist West Germany and Italy (1945–1957)"

Degree programme
2018–22
Double degree MA in History
Bielefeld University & Università di Bologna (BiBoG)
Master’s thesis: 'Explaining the armed struggle. Left-wing terrorist justifications for violence in the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy (1969–1998)”

2014–2018
Combined Bachelor’s degree (Gymnasium/Ge) in German Studies, History and Educational Sciences
Bielefeld University
Bachelor’s thesis (Literary Studies/Contemporary History): “The Work of Memory between Trauma and Testimony. Herta Müller’s *Atemschaukel* as a Literary Perspective on Contemporary Historical Phenomena”

Teaching experience

• “Locating History. Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Europe and Beyond” (MA theory module, Winter Semester 24/25)
• “Europe in Historiography. Theories – Debates – Perspectives” (BA theory module, Summer Semester 23)
• “Agency and Materiality in Holocaust Remembrance. Workshop on the travelling exhibition ‘Unvollendete Leben’” (together with Anja Herrmann, Teresa Malice and Maja-Lisa Müller, and in cooperation with VHS Bielefeld; Summer Semester 23)

Grants and Fellowships

• Aug. 2026-Jan. 2027: Doctorate Completion Scholarship from the Bielefeld Young Researchers' Fund
• Jan. 2023-Jul. 2026: PhD scholarship from the Paul Löbe Foundation
• Sep.–Oct. 2023 and Apr.–Jun. 2025: Research grant from the Max Weber Foundation, including a research stay at the GHI Rome
• Feb.–Nov. 2019: DAAD scholarship, BiBoG study visit to Bologna, Italy
• Jan.–Apr. 2018: PROMOS scholarship for an internship in Cape Town, South Africa

Work experience

• Oct.–Nov. 2021: Research Internship at the GHI Rome
• Nov. 2020–Feb. 2021: Tutor in the Department of History, Bielefeld University
• Aug.–Nov. 2020: Editor at anders&wissen. Das projektlabor (for the project ‘On the Long Road to Unity – Remembering the Process of German Reunification in Digital Games’ organised by the Hamburg State Agency for Political Education)
• Apr. 2020–Dec. 2022: Research assistant to Prof. Dr Vito Francesco Gironda for the history degree programmes BiBoG (Bielefeld Bologna Graduation) and GloC (Global Cultures) at Bielefeld University
• Jan–Apr 2018: Internship at the Goethe Centre in Cape Town, South Africa
• Oct 2017–Dec 2019: Tutor representative for the Department of History, Bielefeld University
• Apr 2017–Feb 2019: Student research assistant in Collaborative Research Centre 1288: Practices of Comparison. Ordering and Transforming the World, sub-project B01: ‘Order in Diversity: Comparative Practices in Intercultural Jurisprudence (17th–19th centuries)’
• Feb–Mar 2017: Occupational practice studies at the BAJ in Bielefeld (Vocational Training and Qualification for Young People and Adults) to support school pupils with refugee backgrounds within the transitional support system
• April 2017–February 2019: Tutor in History, Bielefeld University
• May 2016–April 2017: Student assistant to Dr Christina Brauner (Early Modern History)
• Feb–Apr 2016: Introductory theory-in-practice course at Rietberg Grammar School