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Sandra Engels

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About Me

Sandra Engels is a doctoral researcher and research assistant at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. In her research project she works on cultural mediation and the dynamics of heritage making at sites of memory. Through integrating the innovative methodology of 'emotion networking', developed by Dutch heritage educators, in her own tour-guiding practices, she aims to investigate the emotional/affective side of heritage making processes. This shall introduce more participatory and inclusive strategies for understanding, mapping, and accessing the dynamics of heritage and memory making on the spot.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Sandra studied History and Special Journalism of History at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. She then completed two master's programmes in the Netherlands, in History of Society and International Relations at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and in Heritage and Memory Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

As research assistant at the GCSC, she is now responsible for the centre's welcoming events as well as public relations and marketing concepts, along with its Social Media strategy. 

Contact

sandra.engels

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 12
D-35394 Giessen

Room 217
Phone: +49.641.99 30 025

@SK_Engels
LinkedIn
@spaces.of.memory

Publications

  • [In Review] "Whose Heritage—Whose Narrative? Disrupting Place-Based Narratives to (Re)Claim Heritage Sites in Political Agendas". On_Culture, no. 19 (October 2025). 

Book Reviews and Conference Reports
Presentations and Conferences

  • "Beyond the Master-Narrative: Shifting Identities and a Post-Heritage Framework in Spaces of Memory", Disrupted Identities in the Light of Post-Everything, International Conference, Giessen, May 14–16, 2024, GCSC, co-organiser in Research Area 6.
  • Kulturerbe im Transit. Herausforderungen der Begriffsbestimmungen und der normativen Umsetzung, International Summer School, Bibracte, September 4–9, 2023, Université Paris-Saclay/LMU München, France.
  • Heritage, Identity and Inclusivity, Summer School on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Leeuwarden, July 4–7, 2023, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.


Dissertation Project

Reimagining Spaces of Memory. Participative Approaches to the Cultural Mediation of Memory and Identity Politics

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer
Co-Supervision: Dr. Hester Dibbits

Research Interests

  • Heritage Studies
  • Memory and Identity Politics
  • Museum Studies
  • Visual and Material Culture Studies
  • Historical Consciousness (Geschichtsbewusstsein)
  • Cultural Mediation (Kulturvermittlung)
Projects

Memberships

  • International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
  • Research Group Cultural Heritage, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts
  • European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH)
  • Europa Nostra, the European Voice of Civil Society committed to Cultural Heritage 
  • International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Miscellaneous

 

Teaching
  • Workshop: Short Forms for Distracted Minds? Social Media, the Attention Economy, and Science Communication. GCSC, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Summer Semester 2023. With Robin Schmieder.
Research Projects