Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba

Research

World War II historical museum narrative collective memory national & transnational memory identity representation historiography

Latest funding

Canada 150: Perspectives on cultural genocide
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$24,783
Between national and transnational memories: World War II in the twenty-first-century museum in Europe and North America
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$86,230
Depiction and definition: representing war across the disciplines
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$7,791

All 4 grants and awards

Canada 150: Perspectives on cultural genocide

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Muller, Adam P.D.

Keywords: Canada 150; cultural genocide; the Holocaust; genocide education; settler-colonial violence; Indigenous culture; German-Jewish culture; Synagogues; residential schools; virtual reconstructions of the past

$24,783

Between national and transnational memories: World War II in the twenty-first-century museum in Europe and North America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jaeger, Stephan

Keywords: World War II; historical museum; narrative; collective memory; national & transnational memory; identity; representation; historiography; concepts of war; historical experience; narratology; 21st century; Europe; Germany; Canada; Poland; UK; US; Belgium

$86,230

Depiction and definition: representing war across the disciplines

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Jaeger, Stephan

Keywords: war; conflict; representations of ancient and modern warfare; narration; perspective; atrocities; genocide; national identity; autobiography; memory; myth; normativity; ethics; human costs of war; morality of war; ideology; unrepresentability

$7,791

Narratological and aesthetic challenges for German historiography 1800 - 2000

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Jaeger, Stephan

Keywords: history and literature; fact and fiction; schiller; herder; forster; schlegels; German and European historiography 1770-1810; narratology; multi-perspectivity; aesthetics and performativity of history; German WW II air war representations after 1990

$40,983

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Write to this professor

A short, specific email works best. This draft uses one of their recent papers; replace the parts in brackets with your own details before sending.

Applying for

Subject: Prospective PhD student: World War II Dear Professor Jaeger, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on world war ii connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]