Dr. Eva Maria Gajek

Postdoctoral Researcher

Main Focus

  • Cultural history of economics
  • History of wealth, property, and assets
  • History of social inequality
  • Media history
  • European cultural history

Curriculum Vitae

since 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

20192022
Research Associate, Leibniz Research Group "History and Theory of Global Capitalism," Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

20112019
Research Associate, History Journalism, Department of History, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (2014-2015 and 2017-2018 on parental leave)

2011
Dr. phil., Department of History, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

20072010
Scholarship, graduate program on transnational media events from the early modern period until the present, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

20012007
Studies in Modern and Contemporary History, History of Technology, Economics and Social History/Modern German Literature, Ruhr-Universität Bochum


Awards and honors (selected)

2016–2017
Mentee, funding programme “Proprofessur. Mentoring für Wissenschaftlerinnen“, Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Hessian universities

2014
Hedwig Hintze Prize, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (German association of historians)

2012
Dissertation award, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

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