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teachers in West German universities and schools (1945–61) will be
published shortly. He is currently co-editing British Envoys to Germany,
1816–1866, vol. 2: 1830–1847.
REGINA PÖRTNER, who joined the GHIL in 1998, took an M.A. in
history (medieval, modern, economic) and German at the University
of Bochum. She was a visiting student at Trinity College, Oxford, in
1988–89, and took her D.Phil. (Oxford) as a Rhodes Scholar in 1998.
She is the author of The Counter-Reformation in Central Europe: Styria
1580–1630 (2001) and has recently edited the latest issue of the Institute’s
bibliography, Research on British History in the �ederal Republic of
Germany, 1998–2000 (2002). She is presently working on aspects of
British legal and intellectual history in the eighteenth century.
MATTHIAS REISS joined the GHIL as a Research �ellow in 2002. He
studied history, political science, and economics at the University of
Hamburg, before changing to the University of Cincinnati (Ohio) in
1993, where he received his MA two years later. His main fields of
interest are American, British, and German history in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries up to the Second World War. His Ph.D. was
published in 2002 as Die Schwarzen waren unsere �reunde: Deutsche
Kriegsgefangene in der amerikanische Gesellschaft 1942–1946. He is currently
working on a study of the image of the unemployed in England
and Germany from the middle of the nineteenth century to the
1970s.
MICHAEL SCHAICH, who joined the GHIL in 1999, was a student
of history and media studies at the University of Munich. After completing
his M.A. he became a research assistant in the history department.
His Ph.D. thesis on Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
in Bavaria was published last year as Staat und Öffentlichkeit im
Kurfürstentum Bayern der Spätaufklärung. During his time at the Institute
he is working on the relationship between monarchy and religion
in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England.
BENEDIKT STUCHTEY joined the GHIL in 1995 after studying in
Münster, �reiburg, and Trinity College Dublin. His main research
interests are the history of historiography and of European imperialism.
He is currently working on anti-colonialism in the twentieth cen-
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