PD Dr. Gregor Feindt

I am a research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History. I am also an associated member of the Collaborative Research Center 1482 “Studies in Human Categorisation” with my project “Making and Becoming ‘New (Wo)Men’: Rationalisation, Subjectification, and Materiality in the Industrial Town of Zlín and the Baťa Company, 1920–1950” that is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

After studying Eastern European and modern history and Slavonic studies at the University of Bonn and at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, I completed my PhD on national discourse in the Central European underground press at the University of Bonn. In 2015/16, I was visiting professor for the history and culture of East-Central Europe with a focus on Poland at the University of Bremen. In 2024, I have received my habilitation at the Univeristy of Kiel.

A historian of Central Europe, my work reflects on the transnational history of Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 20th century. I explore the cultural history of industrial labor, social engineering, and the measuring of efficiency. In addition, I work on European memory and the discourse of belonging.

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