Dr. Gabriel Godeffroy

Manager of Prague office

Subject: History
E-Mail: Gabriel.Godeffroy[at]collegium-carolinum.de

 

Research areas

  • International history and transnational elite networks
  • Economic regionalism and the history of European integration
  • Post-imperial political orders and transformations after 1918
  • Economic and infrastructure history of East Central and South-Eastern Europe

Personal Data

  • Born in 1992
  • Studies in History at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and in Social Sciences and European Affairs at Sciences Po Paris
  • 2018–2024: PhD in History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Hildesheim (Franco-German cotutelle); dissertation entitled “The Idea of Central Europe in the Life and Work of Elemér Hantos (1880–1942)” (magna cum laude)
  • 2025–2026: Associate Postdoctoral Researcher at SIRICE (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Publications

Articels and Contributions

  • L’Union postale centre-européenne : débats autour de l’unification postale mondiale au lendemain de l’effondrement de l’Autriche-Hongrie, 1925–1931. In: Léonard Laborie/Sébastien Richez (eds.), The World as a “Single Postal Territory”: The Universal Postal Union’s Role in History. Brussels, 2025, pp. 225–244.
  • Construire et maintenir un réseau : Elemér Hantos et le Congrès économique de l’Europe centrale (1925–1933). Enquêtes 3 (2018), pp. 1–10.
  • Entre Mitteleuropa and Paneuropa : le projet d’Elemér Hantos dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Bulletin de l’Institut Pierre Renouvin 43 (2016), pp. 63–74.

Memberships/Roles

  • Full Member of the European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi, Vienna (since 2025)

Fellowships/Awards

  • Research Grant, Central Europe Foundation, Zurich (2025–2026)
  • Cotutelle Grant, Franco-German University, Saarbrücken (2023)
  • Mobility Grant, Institut franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales, Frankfurt am Main (2023)
  • Ernst Mach Grant, Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation, Vienna (2021)
  • Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin (2021)
  • Research Grant, European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi, Vienna (2020)
  • Vibeke Sørensen Grant, Historical Archives of the European Union at the European University Institute, Florence (2020)
  • Doctoral Scholarship, Central Europe Foundation, Zurich (2018–2022)