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Cakolli, Luan (Research Fellow, Prize Papers Academy Project):
“Set Squares, Compasses, Spices and Tea”: A macro-historical study of the interconnections between the European East India Companies and Masonic lodges from 1770 to 1810
de Boer, Vincent (Research Associate: externally funded project ‘ProSaDi: Research Space for Provenance and Collection Research’):
Cowrie shells to West Africa – The Hamburg trading house O’Swald and the impact of its activities on West African cowrie practices
Funding bodies: VW Foundation / MWK zukunft.niedersachsen
Kaiser, Rieke Marie (Research Associate: externally funded project ‘Digitisation, Visualisation and Analysis of Collection Materials’ (DiViAS)):
“The Road full of Ships” – Spatial, Temporal and Social Dimensions of Early Modern Movement.
Funding bodies: Volkswagen Foundation / MWK zukunft.niedersachsen
Heidorn, Thomas:
“Ein frey und offen Landt?” The Danish-Oldenburg Personal Union 1667–1773 (Funded by Pro*Niedersachsen)
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Popp, Nele Anna (Research Associate, Institute of History, Early Modern History, University of Oldenburg, Faculty IV):
“A Petition about Raisins. Heligoland between Merchant Interests and Subsistence.”
Schmees, Katharina:
“I adore children!” On the treatment of childlessness in first-person accounts of the modern era
[Project outline]
Tadge, Jennifer (Research Associate: Third-party-funded project ‘Provenance Research in Non-European Collections and Ethnology in Lower Saxony (PAESE)’):
Colonial Collecting Practices in Military Contexts
Funding body: Volkswagen Foundation
Vienenkötter, Hagen:
“Between Risk and Security: Strategies of Bremen Merchants for Safe and Economically Efficient Maritime Trade in the Early Modern Period.”
Completed doctorates
Marquardt, Frank: "Konnexion durchs ganzen Land" Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine im kolonialen Sozialraum Dänisch-Westindiens 1739-1765
(Funded by the DFG; GK 1608/2 Selbstbildungen. Practices of subjectivation in historical and interdisciplinary perspective)
Foxley, Suzanne Amy: SurPRIZEing Events- Prize law as an American means of judicial independence from Britain? c.1780-1815
(Funded by the Prize Papers Project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
[Project outline]
Cronshagen, Jessica: Die Hausleute. Landhandel und Landhändler, Pachtbauern und Erben, Landmänner und Vornehmme in den friesischen Marschen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
(Funded by the Ev. Studienwerk Villigst e.V.)
Haasis, Lucas: The Power of Persuasion. The Luetkens Correspondence (funded by the DFG; GK 1608/2 Selbstbildungen. Practices of subjectivation in historical and interdisciplinary perspective)
Hoffmann, Herta: "A soul of the country". Sibylla Elisabeth, Countess of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. Scope for action of a noble woman in the early modern period.
Raapke, Annika: Caribbean body worlds: Eine körperhistorisch-praxeologische Annäherung an Körper des späten 18. Jahrhunderts in Bewegung
(Funded by the DFG; GK 1608/2 Selbstbildungen. Practices of subjectivation from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective)
Schnieder, Isabel: Marriages put to the test? Alternative lifestyles in the coastal areas of Oldenburg and East Frisia between the 16th and 18th centuries
(funded by Pro*Niedersachsen)