Legay, Dr. Richard

Position: 
Senior Researcher
Email: 
richard.legay [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: 
+49-(0)761-88878-34
Areas of Research: 
(Digital Turn of) Restitution, History of Commercial Radios and Popular Culture
Education: 
2016–2020
PhD in History: “Commercial Radio Stations and their Dispositif. Transnational and Intermedial Perspectives on Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1 in the Long Sixties”. Directed by Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Centre for Contemporary & Digital History, University of Luxembourg
2015–2016
M.Phil in Public History & Cultural Heritage, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
2013–2015
Master in Contemporary European History, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
2010–2013
Bachelor in History & Bachelor in Geography, Université de Lorraine (France)
Professional Experience / Applied Research: 
2021–2022
Lecturer & postdoctoral researcher (Teach@Tübingen Fellow) at the Institut für Geschichtsdidaktik und Public History, Universität Tübingen
2020–2021
Postdoctoral researcher at the C²DH, University of Luxembourg. Curator of the Popkult60 virtual exhibition (URL: https://popkult60.eu/e/en/)
2016–2020
Doctoral researcher & lecturer at the C²DH (Centre for Contemporary & Digital History), University of Luxembourg
2016
Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Dublin (Ireland)
2014–2015
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (Luxembourg)
Research stays
2022: Visiting Fellow at the Department of Media & Communication, Lund University (Sweden)
2019: Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Media History, Bournemouth University (United Kingdom)
2019: Visiting Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung, Hamburg University (Germany)
 
Associations
Council member of the International Association for Media & History (IAMHIST)
Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS)
International Federation for Public History (IFPH)

 

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