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Principal Investigators
The project is jointly led by Daniel Laqua and Isabella Löhr. Two researchers – Henry Dee and Lucie Lamy – will work full-time on the project for three years. The broader team is complemented by two Senior Fellows, Edward Anderson and Marcia Schenck, and an international advisory board.
Daniel Laqua
Daniel is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Northumbria University. While co-leading the ‘University Students as Migrants’ project as a whole, he holds specific responsibility for the UK-based team activities. His own research contribution to the project focuses on the role of intenational organisations in addressing questions of student mobility. He is also leading another international collaborative project, ‘Global Governance, Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present’, which is funded via the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities and brings together research teams in Canada, Switzerland, the UK and the United States.
Isabella Löhr
Isabella heads the department on ‘Globalisations in a Divided World’ at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History as well as Professor of Twentieth-Century International History at FU Berlin. While co-leading the ‘University Students as Migrants’ project, she holds specific responsibility for the Germany-based team activities. Her own research contribution to the project focuses on the development of migration policies and discourses as they pertained to students. She is also leading another project, ‘”Refugees” and Others: The Production of Refugee-Related Figures since the 1970s’, which is part of the ‘Production of Migration’ Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1604) at the University of Osnabrück.
Researchers
Henry Dee
Henry is a Research Fellow in History at Northumbria University, having joined the project after holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Glasgow. He is a full-time researcher on the ‘University Students as Migrants’ project. Geographically, his work on the project focuses on case studies from the UK and Belgium; thematically, it is particular concerned with different forms of activism. He is the author of Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1961 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025).
Lucie Lamy
Lucie is a Research Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF). She previously taught at the Université Paris Cité, where she completed her doctorate on the history of Baltic German migration after 1945. As a full-time researcher on the ‘University Students as Migrants’ project, she is conducting research in German and French archives. Thematically, her emphasis is on migration discourses, policies and experiences.
Senior Fellows
Edward Anderson
Edward is Assistant Professor of History at Northumbria University. He is supporting the project team in particular with his expertise in the history and politics of the Indian diaspora.
International Advisory Board
Jacob Blasius, Executive Director of the Global Student Forum
Georgina Brewis, Professor of Social History, University College London (UCL)
Jodi Burkett, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Portsmouth
Pieter Dhont, University Lecturer in History, University of Eastern Finland
Antonin Dubois, Lecturer in History, University of Lorraine
Angéline Escafré-Dublet, Associate Professor of Political Science, Université Lumière Lyon-2
Sara Pugach, Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles
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