PD Dr. Eva Gajek

By arrangement

• Master’s degree from Ruhr University Bochum
• PhD in History from Justus Liebig University Giessen (2011), awarded the University’s Dissertation Prize and the Hedwig Hintze Prize
• Habilitation at Justus Liebig University Giessen (2024) with the thesis ‘In Search of the Rich: A History of Knowledge and Perceptions of Wealth in Germany during the Long 20th Century’; authorised to teach Modern and Contemporary History.

Wem gehört die Stadt? Immobilienmärkte, Boden und Wohnen in historischer Perspektive | KUL-15015
Beginn: 12.10.2026, 16:15-17:45 Uhr, Raum: GD 06

Since September 2026, PD Dr Eva Maria Gajek has held the Professorship for Historical Urban and Spatial Research at the European University Viadrina and has been Head of the ‘Contemporary History and Archives’ research focus at the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS). Since May 2025, she has also been co-leading the collaborative project “RichMap – Where the Rich Live” there, together with Kerstin Brückweh. Her research focus is on the history of wealth and social inequality, urban and spatial history, and media history.

Acting Professorship for Economic and Social History at the University of Duisburg-Essen (winter semesters 2024/25 and 2025/26)
Postdoctoral fellow in Collaborative Research Centre 138 ‘Dynamics of Security’ at Philipps University of Marburg (2024)
Researcher and visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (2022–2025)
Research assistant at the Institute of History at JLU (2010–2024)