Walter Pohl#
| Membership Number: | 3570 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 until present Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna
- 1998 until present Director of the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Visiting professor at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Netherlands
- 1995 Visiting professor at CEU Budapest, Hungary
- 1993 Visiting professor at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
- 1990 - 2006 researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1985 - 1990 research assistant, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Historiography, cultural memory and the transmission of texts
- Late ancient history
- Comparative history
- Research on identity and ethnicity
- Early medieval history
- Transformation of the Roman World
- Migrations and integration
- Development of medieval polities and political cultures
- Christianization of Europe
Honours and Awards
- 2004 Wittgenstein Prize of the FWF (highest Austrian Academic Award, given to 1-2 scholars of any discipline per year)
- 2004 fellow of the Austrian Academy (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2018 Corresponding Fellow der Medieval Academy of America
