Dr. Sabine Stach

Dr. Sabine Stach

Researcher
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About

From 2001 to 2009, Sabine Stach studied cultural studies, art history and Bohemian/Slovak studies in Leipzig and Prague (Magister). In 2014, she received her PhD from the University of Leipzig with a study on political discourses of martyrdom in late and post-socialism. From 2014 to 2015, she has held a teaching assignment at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and from 2015 to 2020 a researcher at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw in the research area »Functionality of History in Late Modernity«.

Sabine Stach has been a researcher at GWZO in the department »Culture and Imagination« since September 2020.

Work focus

  • Public history & tourism

  • History of tourism

  • Performative and sensory approaches to historical culture (“Doing History”)

  • Contemporary history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, GDR

Memberships

  • Member of the editorial board and of the steering group [Steuerungsgruppe] of H-Soz-Kult

  • Member of the Czechoslovak Studies Association

 

Teaching

Sabine Stach teaches at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Charles University in Prague, and University of Leipzig.

Current topic of research