Professor Dr. Wolfram Drews

Professor Dr. Wolfram Drews

Domplatz 20-22
48143 Münster

T: + 49 251 83-24341
F: + 49 251 83-24306

 

  • Research Foci

    • Cultural History of Politics in the Middle Ages
    • Comparative History
    • World and Global History
    • Transcultural History
    • Strategies of Domination and Integration in Christianity and Islam
    • Kingship and Rulership in the early and high Middle Ages
    • Processes of entanglement involving Christianity, Judaism and Islam

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Habilitation (University of Cologne)
    Doctoral dissertation (Freie Universität Berlin)
    MA in History, Jewish Studies and Theology (Freie Universität Berlin)
    MA (Diploma) in Engish and Spanish (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

    Positions

    Professor of medieval history (early and high middle ages, transcultural history) at WWU Münster
    Professor at the University of Cologne
    Researcher at Bonn University
    Professor at Bochum University
    Professor at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
    Researcher at Göttingen University

    Honors

    Appointment as member of the "Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte" – Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte e. V.
    Appointment as Member of the Academia Europaea – Academia Europaea
    Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship – Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
    Friedrich-Meinecke-Preis – Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut an der Freien Universität Berlin
    DAAD Stipendium für Studierende – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
    TEMPUS-Programm der EU – TEMPUS-Programm der Europäischen Gemeinschaft

    External Functions

    Forschungsgruppe "Xenokratie vor Ort. Administration und kulturelle Verflechtung in der Vormoderne" (Teilprojektleiter)
    Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte (Mitglied)
    Vorstand des Exzellenzclusters "Religion und Politik" (Mitglied)
    Member of the Academia Europaea
    Member of the Executive Board of the Association of Historians (Mitglied)
    President of Mediävistenverband (Interdisciplinary Association of Medievalists) (Präsident)
    Member of the Academic Advisory Board to the Research Focus "Education and Religion in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and the Classical Period of Islam" at Göttingen University (Mitglied)
    DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1150 "Kulturen des Entscheidens" (Teilprojektleiter)
    Vicepresident of Mediävistenverband (Interdisciplinary Association of Medievalists)
    Centrum für Religionsbezogene Studien (Vorstandsmitglied)
    Executive director of the Institute of Early Medieval Studies and editor of the journal "Frühmittelalterliche Studien"