The MWS project database provides an overview of current and completed projects at the institutes of the MWS and aims to make information on these accessible to everyone. It enables a search by subject area and subject. It is based on the selection of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) adapted by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek as the German specialised library for the field of history. It is also possible to search by country (states existing today) and major epochs. The database includes dissertation and habilitation projects that were funded, for example, as part of a scholarship, as well as the institute's own and third-party-funded collaborative projects.
The search results are sorted chronologically in descending order, starting with the project with the most recent start date.
The project database aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the thematic breadth and diversity of research at the institutes and research groups of the MWS. Information on current research foci of the institutes can be found on the respective institute websites.
It is planned to reconstruct the multiple layers of the Vatican`s involvement, its information sources, and diplomatic tools, to capture the complex interrelation between religious and political aspects, and to understand the underground practices implemented locally and supported or disapproved by the Vatican. I am also going to analyze the formal and informal layers of interaction between the Vatican, on the one hand, and the communist authorities, on the other hand, towards the faithful of the disbanded Greek Catholic Church.
I hope that my research, which is not a study of church history in a narrow sense, would bring more insights to the history of the Stalinist period in Central and Eastern Europe.