Promoting young academics Magdalena Freckmann receives doctoral scholarship

Starting February 1, 2026, Magdalena Freckmann will receive doctoral funding from the Research Centre on Antigypsyism. The RCA awards the doctoral scholarship every three years in cooperation with the Graduate Academy of Heidelberg University.

Magdalena Freckmann is a social scientist whose research focuses on institutional antigypsyism and materialist antigypsyism theory. Her doctoral project, supervised by political scientist Prof. Dr. Michael Haus, is entitled “On the Structural Embedding of Institutional Antigypsyism” and uses case studies to examine the interaction of mechanisms of institutional antigypsyism in the municipal sphere with political, economic, and social conditions.

From 2016 to 2023, she studied social sciences (B.A.) at Humboldt University in Berlin and interdisciplinary anti-Semitism research (M.A.) at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2022 to 2025, she worked as a freelancer and student assistant on the project “Racism in the welfare complex: Mechanisms of Municipal Inclusion and Exclusion Practices towards Rom:nja from EU Member States and Ukraine“ at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion in Berlin. In 2025, she produced a practical guide for police officers on the topic of ”Police and Antigypsyism” on behalf of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the Education Forum against Antigypsyism.