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Dr Richard Engl
Akademischer Rat a. Z.
Contact
Postal address:
Historisches Seminar der LMU
Mittelalterliche Geschichte
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Muenchen
Germany
Address for visitors:
Historicum
Schellingstr. 12, room K 222
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 5445
Email: richard.engl@lmu.de
Academic Positions:
From 2018 Akademischer Rat a. Z. at the History Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Medieval History)
2013-2018 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the History Department of Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Medieval, Early Modern and Regional History)
2008-2013 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Cluster of Excellence „Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke” at the University of Trier
Education:
2014 Dr phil. (summa cum laude) in Medieval History, University of Trier
2000-2008 Ärztliche Vorprüfung (with disctinction) in medicine and Staatsexamen (with disctinction) in history, German language and literature, psychology and educational sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Università degli Studi di Pisa.
Research interests:
Cultural, political and social history of the Roman-German Empire, Italy and the Mediterranean including connections to the Maghreb and the Near East. Especially history of the German-Italian Hohenstaufen era (12th to 13th century), history of the Norman to Angevin Kingdom of Sicily with its Muslim minority and its interdependence with Islamic realms, and history of the Mediterranean port cities Pisa and Genova with their strategies of documentation. Transcultural transfer, migration and communication, local know-hows and mentalities. Interpretation of pictorial and material sources and digitally based Social Network Analysis.
A new project investigates the history of emotions in the political sphere from the 8th to the 15th century.
Awards and honours:
Staufer Foundation Göppingen: award for best doctoral dissertation.
German Historical Institute in Washington DC: travel grant.
German Historical Institute in Rome: research scholarships.
Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento: language course and research scholarship.
Bavarian State: study grant “für Besonders Begabte”.
Departmental roles:
From 2020 Erasmus coordinator of the History Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Medieval History).
From 2018 Teaching coordinator of the History Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Medieval History).
2018-2019 Elected representative of the academic staff in the steering committee of the History Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
2016-2017 Elected representative of the academic staff in the steering committee of the History Department of Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, member of the Bachelor/Master-committee and the committee for revision of the undergraduate curriculum.
Third-party funds (selected):
2017-2018 Gutenberg Lehrkolleg of Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz: project "Digitalisation as a challenge for teaching history at university” (with Dr. Bernhard Dietz, Dr. Andreas Goltz und Dr. Heidrun Ochs).
Professional memberships (selected):
Advisory Board of the Journal of Historical Network Research.
Editorial Board of the journal sehepunkte.
Munich Centre for Global History.
Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Renaissancestudien, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
Forum für Italienstudien, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
Media impact
Review in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 April 2014, p. N3 (www.faz.net).
Interview in Kristeligt Dagblad, 7 September 2020, p. 7 (www.k.dk).
Review in DAMALS 3.2021, p. 7 (www.damals.de).