Dr Phillip Wagner

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Phillip Wagner’s research revolves around the history of democracy and education, transnational history and urban history. After studying history and philosophy at the University of Münster and Humboldt-Universität (HU) Berlin, he obtained his Ph.D. at the HU with a prize-winning study on the history of internationalism of urban planners. His doctoral research was funded by the by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the GHIs London and Washington, DC. His current project probes the invention of democratic citizenship through political education in the Federal Republic of Germany and has received funding by the Institute for Education, the GHI Paris and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Phillip came to MLU’s research staff in October 2017 after his time at HU Berlin and a period at Bielefeld University. In 2022/23, he was visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.

Recent publications:

• Special issue: Moulding Democratic Citizens: Democracy and Education in  post-1945 Western Europe, European Review of History 29 (2022), Nr. 6  (edited with Till Kössler).

• Transnationale Dimensionen des nationalsozialistischen  Städtebaus, in: Planen und Bauen im Nationalsozialismus –  Voraussetzungen, Institutionen, Wirkungen, edited by Unabhängigen  Historikerkommission „Planen und Bauen im Nationalsozialismus“, München  2023 (w/t H. Boldenschatz)

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