Past Junior Fellows

The Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Network of the WBKolleg has offered an academic home base during the transitional period after completing their doctoral degree to the promising scholars listed below. The aim was to prepare an application to secure the funding of the next career step or make possible the writing of a thesis for further academic qualification.

Past Junior Fellows

Dr. Antoine Acker
Name / Titel
Dr. Antoine Acker
Funktion
Emergence of nature as a political subject in the “long developmentalist” period, when Brazil changed from an agrarian into an industrial country (1930-1980).
Mail
antoine.acker@unito.it
Dr. Meike von Brescius
Name / Titel
Dr. Meike von Brescius
Funktion
Travel in Place and Travel Afar: Bourgeois Interiors in the Long Nineteenth Century
Dr. Sylvia Karastathi
Name / Titel
Dr. Sylvia Karastathi
Funktion
The nature of her work has always been interdisciplinary combining art history and visual culture theory with the study of the British novel. Her research interests extend from 20th and 21st Century Novel to Visual Culture Theory and Museum Studies, from Women’s Writing and the Art Novel to Ekphrasis and Intermediality.
Mail
sylvia.karastathi@wbkolleg.unibe.ch
Dr. Florence Oloff
Name / Titel
Dr. Florence Oloff
Funktion
Smartphones, smart communication: Mobile devices as objects in social interaction
Dr. Carl Rommel
Name / Titel
Dr. Carl Rommel
Funktion
New Men for the New Nation: Examining youth development, sports and masculine ethics within the post-revolutionary Egyptian state bureaucracy
Mail
carl.rommel@gmail.com
Dr. Néhémie Strupler
Name / Titel
Dr. Néhémie Strupler
Funktion
SCATTER: The Scaling Territories Project. How Bronze Age inhabitants in Anatolia redefined their territories within expanding centralised power? On the traces of human occupation and territorial expansion (claims)
Mail
nehemie.strupler@wbkolleg.unibe.ch
Dr. Kali Tal
Name / Titel
Dr. Kali Tal
Funktion
A visual artist and a photographer, Tal looks for opportunities to combine her passion for visual art with her scholarship and sometimes teaches workshops in art journaling.
Mail
ktal@ispm.unibe.ch
Dr. des. Benedetta Zucconi
Name / Titel
Dr. des. Benedetta Zucconi
Funktion
«Nimm mich mit ans himmelblaue Mittelmeer (wenn du Lire hast)»: German Schlagerfilme as example of cultural exchange and diplomacy in Italian-German relationships of the post-war period.
Mail
benedetta.zucconi@unibe.ch