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Félix Streicher
Postdoctoral Researcher
Centre for History (CHSP)
Duration: from 01 April 2025 to 31 March 2028
felix.streicher@sciencespo.frResearch Interest(s): Military occupations, War exits, Resistance
Discipline(s): History
Biography
Félix Streicher is a historian of modern and contemporary Western European history. His research focuses on the social and everyday realities of war and military occupation, on the political history of Western Europe in the twentieth century, and more particularly on the history of Germany and Luxembourg.
Current Research
As a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po, he will be working on a transnational history of the Luxembourg Resistance during the Second World War. His research is funded by the Fondation nationale de la Résistance au Luxembourg and is part of a wider project to create a Historical Dictionary of the Resistance in Luxembourg.
Thesis topic
Before joining Sciences Po, he obtained his doctorate in history from Maastricht University in 2025 for his thesis entitled The Forgotten Occupation: Politics, Everyday Life, and Gender in the Luxembourg Occupation Zone in Germany (1945-55). He received his MA from EHESS in Paris (2020) and his BA from the University of Heidelberg (2018).
publications
Edited Works
- Camilo Erlichman and Félix Streicher (eds.), "The Age of Metamorphosis: Role Reversals during and after the Global Second World War", The International History Review (forthcoming in 2026).
Articles (peer reviewed)
- "Emotional Aftermaths: Revenge, Retribution, and Public Shaming in the Luxembourg Occupation Zone in Germany (1945–46)", The International History Review (forthcoming in 2026). https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2566717
- "Besetzte Räume: Alltag und soziale Interaktionen unter luxemburgischer Besatzung in Bitburg (1945–1955)", Francia: Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte 49 (2022), 381-403. https://doi.org/10.11588/fr.2022.1.102426
- "Une drôle de petite armée in der drôle de guerre: Die luxemburgische Force Armée zwischen September 1939 und Mai 1940", Hémecht: Revue d'histoire luxembourgeoise 71, no. 3 (2019), 279-309. https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/z7n095xs7n/pages/25/articles/LS_CHAP2
Book Chapters
- Félix Streicher and Nina Janz, "From one Uniform Into Another: Luxembourgish Men Between Nazi “Forced Conscription” and Post-War Military Service (1942–1946)", in Nina Janz and Denis Scuto (eds.), The Impact of War Experiences in Europe: The Conscription of Non-German Men and Women into the ‘Wehrmacht’ and ‘Reichsarbeitsdienst’ (1938–1945) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), 395-425. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111128467-013
- "The Military Malaise: Towards a Social History of the Luxembourg Army (1944–1959)", in Thomas Kolnberger and Benoît Niederkorn (eds.), Militärgeschichte Luxemburgs / Histoire militaire du Luxembourg (Luxembourg: Capybarabooks, 2022), 343-350.
https://www.academia.edu/82396939/The_Military_Malaise_Towards_a_Social_History_of_the_Luxembourg_Army_1944_1959_ - Félix Streicher and Matthias Paulke. "Konfliktlandschaft Luxemburg: Die Überreste der "Schuster-Linie" zwischen Hosingen und Rodershausen", in Thomas Kolnberger and Benoît Niederkorn (eds.), Militärgeschichte Luxemburgs / Histoire militaire du Luxembourg (Luxembourg: Capybarabooks, 2022), 271-282. https://www.academia.edu/82388014/Konfliktlandschaft_Luxemburg_Die_Überreste_der_Schuster_Linie_zwischen_Hosingen_und_Rodershausen