Dr. Gaëlle Fisher

Gaëlle Fisher has a BA in German and History (2007) and an MA in East European Studies (2009) from University College London. Her PhD in history (University College London, 2015) was entitled “Locating Germanness: Bukovina and Bukovinians after the Second World War, 1944-2014.” From 2017 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. From 2023 to 2025, she was a postdoc fellow at Bielefeld University, working on the DFG/AHRC-funded project “Good Citizens, Terrible Times: Community, Courage and Compliance in the Holocaust and beyond”. She has many years of experience as an English-language editor and copy editor of academic texts. She was a founding member of the editorial team of the European Holocaust Studies series published by Wallstein Verlag. 

She has been working for the GWZO since February 2025. She oversees the institute’s English-language publications and international science communication and carries out her own research on the history of the Holocaust in Romania.

• History and Memory of the Holocaust in East and West
• Jewish history and the history of antisemitism in Romania
• German-speaking minorities in and from Central and Eastern Europe

Gaëlle Fisher has taught modern German, Jewish and European history at the universities of Augsburg, Leipzig and Bielefeld (2015-2025). From 2013 to 2014, she was a Teaching Fellow in German History at University College London.