Professor for Modern History Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gänger

Stefanie Gänger is Professor of Modern History at the University of Heidelberg. She is also co-director, with Jürgen Osterhammel, of the Balzan Research Group Rethinking Global History. She holds an MPhil and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, after studying history at the Universities of Augsburg and Seville. She has held visiting fellowships at the Berlin Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania, the EHESS and at Sciences Po Paris. In 2019 she was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize, Germany’s most important award for early career academics. In 2023, she received an ERC Consolidator Grant, FEVER, to study the history of febrile illness between 1750 and 1840. 

Stefanie’s work considers the histories of science, collecting, and medicine. Her first book, Relics of the Past – on antiquarianism in nineteenth-century Andean South America –, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Her second book, A Singular Remedy – a history of ‘the Peruvian bark’, a febrifuge, across the Atlantic world around 1800 – came out with Cambridge University Press in 2020. Her other publications examine a variety of themes, ranging from the theory of global history to the history of self-medication and have appeared in journals such as Modern Intellectual History, Isis, Colonial Latin American Review, the Journal of Global History, and the Historical Journal.