Phillip Wagner

Dr. Phillip Wagner is a researcher in the Department of Education and Pedagogy at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) under Faculty of Philosophy III. He holds a PhD from Humboldt University Berlin (2014), funded by German Academic Scholarship Foundation and German Historical Institutes in London/Washington DC. His work focuses on the history of democracy and education, transnational urban history, and political education in 20th-century Germany.

• 2017–Present: MLU Research Staff
• 2022–2023: UC Berkeley Visiting Scholar
• Education: Münster & Berlin (History/Philosophy)

His current project on democratic dispositions through political education (1945–2000) has received funding from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and German Institute for Education. Wagner co-edited the 2022 special issue Moulding Democratic Citizens in the European Review of History and authored the 2023 monograph Transnationale Dimensionen des nationalsozialistischen Städtebaus. Major awards include fellowships from German Academic Scholarship Foundation and Humboldt Foundation.

• Key research areas: Democracy & education history, transnational urban planning, political socialization in postwar Germany
• Teaching areas: Modern European political culture, Cold War education, urban development