Wolfram Drews#
| Membership Number: | 4653 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/histsem/MA-G/L2/personen/wolframdrews.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2011 Professor of Medieval History, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster
- 2010/11 Visiting Professor at Cologne University
- 2010 Visiting Professor at Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
- 2008/09 Visiting Professor at Humboldt-Universität (HU), Berlin
- 2001 - 2011 Research Assistant at Bonn University (Dölger-Institut: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum)
- 1998 - 2001 Research Assistant at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative history
- World and global history
- Transcultural history
- Strategies of domination and integration in Christianity and Islam
- Kingship and rulership
- Processes of entanglement involving Christianity, Judaism and Islam
- Spanish history
- Jewish history
- Cultural history of politics
- Religion and violence
Honours and Awards
- 2017 President of Mediävistenverband (Interdisciplinary Association of Medievalists)
- 2016 Member of the Executive Board of the Association of Historians
- 2015 Member of the Academic Advisory Board to the Special Research Field "Education and Religion in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and the Classical Period of Islam" at Göttingen University
- 2013 - 2017 Vice-President of Mediävistenverband (Interdisciplinary Association of Medievalists)
- 2012 Principal Investigator, Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", Münster
- 2012 Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Harvard University
- 2012 Executive director of the Institute of Early Medieval Studies and editor of the journal "Frühmittelalterliche Studien"
