Lea Frese-Renner
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Raum
2.5 (Studierendenwohnheim / Gebäudenr. 212 / Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6-8)
Brieffach
3
Adresse
Postadresse: Gronewaldstr. 2
50931 Köln
Sprechstunde
Nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail
Curriculum Vitae
Since April 2026
, Research Assistant in the Historical Education Research Unit at the University of Cologne
Since April 2020
, Ph.D. candidate at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Department of “Media and Information Society” (since July 2025 as an associate Ph.D. candidate)
Dissertation project on the topic: “Remembering in a Time of Double Upheaval: The GDR in the Early World Wide Web of the 1990s and 2000s”
Primary advisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch, Secondary advisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers
April 2020 – March 2023, January 2024 – June 2025
Research Associate at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Research in Potsdam in the BMBF-funded collaborative project “The Media Heritage of the GDR: Actors, Appropriation, Transmission”
2016 – 2020
Master of Arts in European History at Humboldt University of Berlin and King’s College London (Joint Degree). Master’s thesis topic: “‘Doing’ Gender and Emotions on the Far-Right. The Margaritas vis-à-vis the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1936)”
2012–2016
Bachelor of Arts in History and Journalism and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (including a semester abroad at the University of Edinburgh)
Scholarships
March 2026
FAIR Data Fellow at the Deutsches Museum in Munich as part of an NFDI4Memory FAIR Data Fellowship
April – December 2023
Research and Thesis Fellowship from the ZZF Potsdam