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Burcu Dogramaci is a professor of 20th Century and Contemporary Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). In 2016 she was been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and lead the research project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).


Ekaterina Aygun graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with a master’s degree in History. She currently pursues her doctoral research project (LMU Munich) that deals with Russian-speaking émigré artists in Istanbul at the beginning of the 20th century.


Mareike Hetschold studied art history, literature and Italian in Munich and Venice. She is a doctoral researcher with the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD) at the LMU in Munich. 

Laura Karp Lugo holds a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2014), that has been awarded the Prize of the Musée d’Orsay. She is currently a Researcher and Assistant Professor at University of Lorraine (Nancy) and a researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich) in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).

Rachel Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of History of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Delft and an Associated Researcher on the ERC project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).

Helene Roth is Research Assistant in Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and researcher in the ERC project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD).