Dr. Sara Mehlmer
Time at IEG: 2014–2019
Research projects:
Battles over Belief: Religion and Violence in Catholic Europe, 1848–1914
The Emmy Noether research group undertakes the first systematic analysis of the use of protest and violence in conflicts pertaining to religious culture and Church power in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Europe. It studies the motives and legitimation strategies for the use of crowd action and simultaneously probes opportunities to overcome physical conflict and the development of alternative ways to overcome conflict.
Between Brothers and Archenemies. Christian and Muslim border crossings in and around Spanish-Northern Africa, ca. 1851–1869
The dissertation project examined forms of border crossing between Morocco and Spain in the border area around Spanish North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla) in the second half of the 19th century (ca. 1851-1869). The work focused on the role of physical and psychological violence as well as religious, ethno-national and social affiliations.