Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gänger Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gänger

Stefanie Gänger is Professor of Modern History at the University of Heidelberg; co-director, with Jürgen Osterhammel, of the Balzan Research Group Rethinking Global History; and, since 2023, Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant FEVER. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, after studying history at the Universities of Augsburg, Seville and Cambridge. She has held visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the University of Pennsylvania, at EHESS and Sciences Po Paris. In 2019 she was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize, Germany’s most important award for early career academics. Stefanie has published widely on the histories of science, collecting, and medicine between the late 1700s and early 1900s, from creole antiquarianism in nineteenth-century Andean South America to the language and theory of global history.