Anja Segmüller

DPhil Research Topic

Performance in late 20th Century Central Europe

Supervisors: Nick Stargardt and Paul Betts.

Anja Segmüller is a DPhil Candidate in Modern European history at the University of Oxford, where she researches artist and collector-dealer networks in 20th-century Germany. Her broader areas of interest includes feminist histories, cultures of protest and activism, performance and visual art in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Anja holds a BA in History from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She has received the Richard Cobb Prize for the best dissertation in Modern European History from the University of Oxford and the national Postgraduate Essay Prize from the German History Society. Her work has been featured in the most recent journal issue of the Burlington Contemporary. 

Her research is generously supported by the Julian Schild Scholarship at Pembroke College, Oxford and the Seetrotte Weesen Foundation, Switzerland.