Over the years, my research projects received national and international funding of – up to date – about one million Euro, including funding schemes and awards from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Research Association (DFG), and BMBF fueled HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). While doing research as a post-doc and junior professor, I have been identified as an “outstanding talent” by the FAU (in their own Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) in 2016/17, and as an “outstanding researcher” by the Hans Böckler Foundation in 2018 (winning one of the Maria Weber Grants of the foundation). Two of my recent books have been nominated for book prizes (longlist), and the collective App-project “Hidden Cities” won the Digital Humanities Award 2022 in the category „Best use of DH for fun“. I was a principial investigator in this HERA funded EU-project and responsible for “Hidden Hamburg”. Suffice to say, I applied for much more project’s funding opportunities than the ones I received in the end.
My most recent funded projects include being part from 2019-2022 of the European project “PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present”, (PURE), and leading a project from 2021-2024 funded by the German Research Association (DFG) that builds an online database for the German writing calendar – the “Schreibkalender”. Have a look here: https://schreibkalender.wisski.data.fau.de
At the monent, I am developing projects on early modern media echoes, and I am preparing my thoughts together with Agnes Gehbald on what a global book history might look like. Also, I began to connect environmental history with paper history and focus on the textile economies of early modern Europe. In general, I do enjoy my research and am grateful for any funding opportunities.