Profile
- Recent Research TopicsHide
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- "Sternberg 1492 - An exemplary study in late medieval Christian-Jewish relations, Christian piety and the relationship between history and memory" (working title)
- “The Middle Ages” in global historical perspective
- Medievalist intersectionality research
- History of intercultural and interreligious relations and conflicts between Christians, Jews, and Muslims (both intra- and interreligiously)
- Late medieval Latin Christian theology and devotional practices
- The academic-reflective handling of political and violent instrumentalizations of historical images (especially of the Crusades)
- Academic CareerHide
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- Since February 2024: Professor of Medieval History at UBT
- Spring Term 2023: Max Kade Guest Professorship at Notre Dame University, IN, USA
- ST 2019: Positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship
- Since WT [Winter Term] 2016/2017: W1 Junior Professor (with tenure-track option to W2) for Medieval History at the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Bayreuth
- WT 2009/2010 until ST 2016: Research assistant at the Chair for Church History (Heinrich Holze) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Rostock
- January 2011: Doctorate Doctor rerum religionum (Dr. rer. rel.) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Rostock (grade: summa cum laude)
- Topic of the dissertation: Cultural encounters between Christians and Muslims on the First Crusade in historical and historiographical perspective (First examiner: Heinrich Holze, Rostock; Second examiners: Michael Borgolte, Berlin & Felicitas Schmieder, Hagen)
- WT 2006/2007 until ST 2009: Stipendiary of the DFG Graduate School “Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship” at the University of Rostock (from WT 2009/2010 until ST 2011 as Fellow)
- April 2006: Graduation as Magister artium (M.A.) in History and Theology/Religious Studies (Grade: 1,1)
- Topic of the M.A. thesis: Investigation of the grave monuments of St. Mary’s church in Rostock (Examiners: Wolfgang-Eric Wagner & Ernst Münch)
- April 2005: Graduation as Bakkalaureus artium (B.A.) for History and Theology/Religious Studies (Grade: 1,0)
- Topic of the B.A. thesis: Eschatological Expectations and Ideas of the Afterlife around the Year 1000 in Frankish and Italian Annales (Examiner: Wolfgang-Eric Wagner)
- ST 2001 until WT 2005/2006: Studies at the University of Rostock: History, Theology/Religious Studies
- WT 2000/2001: Studies at the University of Greifswald: History, English Literature, Christian Archaeology
- Functions and ProjectsHide
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- since 2022: Principal Investigator at PK 053 Doctoral Program in Intersectionality Studies. Transdisciplinary and power-critical research on social inequalities and intersectional solidarity at the University of Bayreuth; funded by the Hans Böckler foundation
- since 2021: Member of the DFG Scientific Network „Die Absicht der Anderen. Zur sozialen Wirksamkeit von Intentionszuschreibungen im europäischen Mittelalter“ (Heads: Marcel Bubert, Münster & Jan-Hendryk De Boer, Duisburg-Essen)
- since WT 2019/20: Program manager (together with Joël Glasman) of the Master’s program Global History
- since ST 2019: Responsible at the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences for the Interdisciplinary Advanced Study Program Intersectionality Studies and Diversity Competencies
- since WT 2017/18: Member of the doctoral committee of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences of the University of Bayreuth
- since 2017: Member of the Network Gender, Queer, Intersectionality und Diversity Studies (GeQuInDi) at the University of Bayreuth
- since 2017: Member of the Focus Area (Emerging Field) Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes at the University of Bayreuth
Christ as Man of Sorrows, St Nicholas (Church of the Holy Blood), Bad Wilsnack