Dr. Anna Sophia Messner is an art historian and scientific staff member in the European Research Council project MEDMACH (https://medmach.hypotheses.org/team-members/anna-sophia-messner) at the Institute for Cultural Studies, Department of Transcultural Studies at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (https://www.kunstgeschichte.hhu.de/teams/anna-sophia-messner). Her research interests include Jewish art, culture, and historiography with a special focus on migration, exile, and transcultural exchange processes, as well as Jewish visual and material culture in the Mediterranean region. Her recent publications include: Photography and Migration, Special Issue of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, vol. 8, no. 1, 2020 (edited with Eva-Maria Troelenberg and Costanza Caraffa); Palästina/Israel im Blick. Bildgeographien deutsch-jüdischer Fotografinnen nach 1933 (Gazing at Palestine/Israel. Visual Geographies of German-Jewish Women Photographers after 1933), Göttingen: Wallstein, 2023; “Visualizing Marseille as a City of Transit”, in: Kristina Schulz/Doerte Bischoff/Moritz Wagner (ed.): Exilforschung. Ein internationales Jahrbuch, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, 221–237.