Visiting researchers of the Centre for history- april

Visiting researchers at the Centre for History: Patricia Clavin, Bent Boel, Felix Streicher

In April, the Centre for History welcomes three new researchers

Patricia Clavin

Patricia Clavin’s research explores how economic and social issues took on as much importance as familiar concerns of border protection and weapons’ control in modern European and global history. Patricia holds the statutory chair in Modern History in the History Faculty, and is a Professorial Fellow of Worcester College.

She is Co-Director of the British Academy Research Programme on Global (Dis)Order, run in Association with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Co-Director of the Changing Global Orders Programme at the Oxford Martin School. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She is as an Associated Researcher with the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. She serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Past & Present.

13 April to 10 May 2025

Bent Boel

Lecturer at the University of Aalborg (Denmark), Bent Boel is the author of The European Productivity Agency and Transatlantic Relations, 1953-1961, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003, and of articles on European cooperation, transatlantic relations, French foreign policy and Western support for Eastern dissidents during the Cold War. Recent publications include: "Who Helped the Soviet Bloc Dissidents? Western Subversive Encounters Beyond the Iron Curtain During the Cold War: Narratives, Approaches‘ (Cold War History, 5.12. 2024) (open access publication via the following link: https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2024.2404552), ’Entre ingérence étatique et solidarité transnationale: La diplomatie française face aux dissidents de l'Est pendant la guerre froide" (in: Catherine Maurer & Matthias Schulz (red.), Solidarität denken und praktizieren: Deutschland, Frankreich, Europa und die Welt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024), ‘Avoiding (Unwanted) Departures: British Diplomacy and Soviet Bloc Dissidents During the Cold War’ (Contemporary British History, vol. 37, no. 4, 2023). At the CHSP, he will continue work on two books: 'Reporting Beyond the Iron Curtain. Western Journalists and Soviet Bloc Dissidents during the Cold War' and “Western Encounters with Soviet Bloc Dissidents during the Cold War” (working title).

1 April to 30 June 2025

Felix Streicher

Félix Streicher is a historian of modern and contemporary Western European History. His research deals with the social and everyday realities of wars and military occupations, the political history of Western Europe in the twentieth century, and the History of Germany and Luxembourg more particularly. 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 in Luxembourg, and is part of a larger project that aims to create a Dictionnaire historique de la Résistance au Luxembourg. Prior to joining Sciences Po, he received his PhD 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 earned his MA from the EHESS in Paris (2020) and his Bachelor’s from the University of Heidelberg (2018). Forthcoming publication 2026 : Camilo Erlichman and Félix Streicher, ’The Age of Metamorphosis: Role Reversals during and after the Global Second World War.‘ The International History Review.

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028