Sophia Friedel is a historian situated at the intersection of labor, social, and economic history currently working as a research associate at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at the Joint Research Centre of the Ruhr-University Bochum and IG Metall. She studied German language and literature studies and History as well as Historical science at the Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen and Queen Mary University London holding both State Examinations as well as a Master’s degree. As part of the EURODEM project “Workplace democracy: A European ideal? Discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945,” she is writing her dissertation on the sub-project “'Co-determination' - A German model for Europe, 1934-mid 1990s,” looking at the circulation and discussion of the German co-determination model in Western Europe as a (discussion) basis for the democratization processes of industrial relations in Sweden and Great Britain in the second half of the 20th century. Her research focuses mainly on remembrance culture and historical-political education, as well as on transnational trade union history and the circulation of political and economic concepts and ideologies. Her latest publication is titled Reformmodelle der industriellen Demokratie: Nationale Mitbestimmungsgesetze und supranationale Impulse in Westeuropa (1968-1976), AuR 7/2025.