Ongoing research projects:

• The Reception of the US Civil Rights Movement.
• Studies on 500 Years of Reformation Anabaptism (Commemorative Year 2025)
• Border Crossers in the Northwest - Everyday Life and Culture in the Early Modern Period
• The Protestant Church in Silesia during the Years of Nazi Rule

Dissertation projects:

• "Becoming Neighbours. The Social Working Community Berlin-East as a Project of the International 'Settlement' Movement, with Special Consideration of the Biographical Stages of the Students Involved" (Volker Austein)
• The International Fellowship of Reconciliation and its Influence on the History of English-German Relations after the First World War (Viviane Wenzel)
• The History of the ”Diakonie” in the Oldenburg Region during the National Socialist Dictatorship (Maike Mittelsteiner)
• Bishop Johannes Georg Heinrich Volkers during the National Socialist dictatorship (Sören Koselitz)
• Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and their reception in the 20th and 21st centuries in connection with the 'Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' (Friederike Henjes)
• "Mission as a practice of becoming a female subject - constructions of femininity in the practice of the Bible Women's Mission of the Basel Women's Mission in India in the 19th/20th century" (Sandra Langhop)

Completed research projects:

• Transreformation (completed 2017)

Dissertations:

• Klaas-Dieter Voß: "The Emden Disputation of 1578. Causes, course and consequences of an interconfessional dialogue in the 16th century" (completed January 2017)
• Karin Förster: "Reformation Anabaptism in Oldenburg and the surrounding area (1535 - 1540) with special reference to the Anabaptist theologian David Joris" (completed November 2017)
• Carina Ambos: "Under all circumstances, don't forget your Bible..." Church Care of Emigrants in Bremen and Bremerhaven in the 19th Century as a Confessional Field of Encounter and Conflict (completed January 2021)