Assoc. Prof. Anna Lisa Ahlers
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Humanities, Languages
Mediaeval history (Europe and the Middle East/Islam)
Global and transcultural history
Relationship between religion and politics in the middle ages
Cultural history of religion
Images of Islam and the history of Islam
Gender history
History of the body
Awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) professorship with funding for two research associates, 2011
Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study, 2006-2007
Research grant for a research stay in Cairo, 2005-2006
Doctoral fellowship for the European University Institute in Florence, 1996-2000
Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Latin
Kaisertum und Kalifat. Der imperiale Monotheismus im Früh- und Hochmittelalter (Globalgeschichte 23). Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2015.
Arbeitstechniken der Geschichtswissenschaft: Studienleitfaden. Basel: Historisches Seminar 2010 (together with Anja Rathmann-Lutz and Christiane Sibille, 2nd ed. 2012).
„Europa und der Nahe Osten: Der transkulturelle Vergleich in der Vormoderne und die Meistererzählungen über den Islam.“ In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 287 (2008), pp. 561-597.
„Ist das Böse schmutzig? Das Osmanische Reich in den Augen europäischer Beobachter des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts.” In: Historische Anthropologie Vol. 11 (2003), pp. 176-192.
Den Feind beschreiben. „Türkengefahr“ und europäisches Wissen über das Osmanische Reich (1450-1600) (Historische Studien 35). Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2003.
Priests, eunuchs and hermaphrodites: Gender ambiguities in knowledge systems and systems of rule in the Arab and Latin middle ages (Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project, since 2011)
Monarchical forms of rule during the premodern period in transcultural perspective (German Research Foundation (DFG) scientific network, 2006-2013)
Departmental representative at the University Priority Research Program (URPP) "Europe and Asia", University of Zurich
Co-editor of L’homme. European journal of feminist history
Co-organizer of the Brackweder working group on mediaeval research
Proficiency certificates in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew
Additional training in tertiary education
Experience with various university committees
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Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Arts and Cultural Studies
Humanities, Prehistory, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Microarchaeology, Paleovegetation and paleolandscape reconstruction, use of plant resources by past populations, plant diet, fossil plant microremains