Dr. Jakob Stürmann
Research Associate at IRTG;
Affiliated Researcher
Working as a Research Associate at the International Research Training Group (IRTG) »Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond«. He is an affiliated researcher at the Dubnow Institute. From August 2020 to December 2024 he was the Coordinator of the Research Unit »Politics« at the Institute.
Studied Eastern European Studies, History, and Gender Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and the University of Birmingham, funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation. Completed his MA degree in 2013. From 2014 to 2020 Doctoral Candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and member of the »Ludwig Rosenberg Graduate School – Historical Relations between Labour Movement and Modern Jewry«, funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation. Subject of PhD thesis: »Blickwechsel – Das Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit aus der Perspektive osteuropäisch-jüdischer Sozialist/innen«. Since 2017 associated member of the »Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg«. From 2016 to 2017 and from 2018 to 2021 Academic Assistant at the European University Viadrina, project »Digital Archive of Jewish Authors in Berlin 1933–1945«, from 2010 to 2011 Junior Research Assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin, project »Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel. Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s«. Since 2016 board member of the nonprofit organization »Action Reconciliation Service for Peace«, since 2020 foundation board member of the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim/Auschwitz.
Courses
Colloquium
Educational Paths.
New Approaches to the History of Jewish Higher Education
Winter Semester 2022/2023