Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship awarded to Sara McQuaid

Sara McQuaid, a DPhil candidate in Modern European History at Balliol College, has been awarded the Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship to undertake postdoctoral research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

The Heuss Fellowship, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and supported by a gift from the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, enables graduates of Oxford to pursue academic research at a German university.

At Humboldt, Sara will develop a project titled The Troubles between Belfast, Berlin, and Rome: West German and Italian engagement with the Northern Irish Conflict, c.1968–1988. The research explores how West German and Italian actors perceived and responded to ‘the Troubles’ - the violent political-sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland - while each country grappled with their own experiences of political violence and unrest. The project will trace media representations and transnational networks that linked militant, humanitarian, and legal actors across the three regions.

Sara holds an AHRC-Oxford Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership award and a Clarendon Scholarship, and is Peter Storey Scholar in History at Balliol College.