Annika Duin

PhD-Project
since 08/2025
"Letters to the Past. Citizen Responses to Antisemitic Violence, 1945–1990"

Studies
2021 to 2024
Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cologne and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master's thesis: "Solidarity in Letters. Reactions to the 'antisemitic swastika epidemic' of 1959/60"

2021 to 2023
a.r.t.e.s. Research Master Program

2017 to 2021
Bachelor's degree in History and History Journalism at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Bachelor's thesis: "'La France aux Français!' – A 'New' Antisemitism in France? Anti-Jewish Press Coverage during the Dreyfus Affair (1897–1899)"

Professional career
since 02/2026
Research Assistant in the Department of Contemporary History under Prof. Dr. Christina Morina

07/2024 to 12/25
Research Assistant in the project "Nazi Perpetrators in Italy 1943-45" under Dr. Carlo Gentile

10/2023 to 07/2024
Student Research Assistant in the research project on the German Academic Scholarship Foundation under Prof. Habbo Knoch

05/2022 to 07/2023
Student Research Assistant in the Department of Prof. Ute Planert

10/2021 to 07/2023
Tutor for the Introductory Lecture in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cologne

01/2022 to 05/2022
Student Research Assistant in the Anti-Discrimination Project led by Jun.-Prof. Nicole Kramer

10/2020 to 03/2021
Tutor for the Introductory Lecture in History Journalism at Justus Liebig University Giessen

International experience
09/2023 to 01/2024
Study abroad semester at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

09/2019 to 12/2019
Internship at the Goethe-Institut Brussels (online editorial team and public relations)

10/2016 to 07/2017
International Youth Volunteer Service in Toulouse

Scholarships and Awards
since 10/2025
Leo Baeck Fellow, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow

01/2025
Faculty Award for Master’s Thesis, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne

07/2024 to 10/2025
Scholarship holder, Cologne high school and endowment fund (Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds)

01/2022 to 06/2024
Scholarship holder, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)