Dr. Stephanie Weismann

Stephanie Weismann is a cultural historian, currently working on a history of smell in Poland in the 20th century, where she is researching changing urban smellscapes and emotions “nosewise” as part of a cultural and social history of Eastern Central Europe (on the example of the city of Lublin).
She was a Polonista Fellow at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, a Hertha Firnberg Fellow at the Institute for Eastern European History and at the Research Centre for the History of Transformation (RECET) and the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, a POLONEZ Fellow at the Department for Cultural Studies at the UMCS Lublin, and a multiple scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.
In the framework of the Polonia firms-project she is looking into Poland’s cosmetics market in the 1980s and the rise and fall of the largest Polonia firm “Inter-Fragrances”.

Stephanie Weismann’s research interests include sensory history, urban history, history of everyday life, history of experience, history of emotions, popular culture in (post-) socialism, as well as the history of East-Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries in general.