Prof. Almut Höfert

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  Studied history and Islamic studies in Bonn, Germany, Freiburg, Switzerland, and Cairo, Egypt
  
  

• 2001
  Doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
  
  

• 2001 – 2005
  Research associate in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland
  
  

• 2005 – 2006
  Visiting researcher at the American University in Cairo
  
  

• 2006 – 2007
  Fellow at theWissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study
  
  

• 2007
  - 2011 Research associate in the Department of History at the University of Basel
  
  

• since 2011
  Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Professorship in Zurich, Switzerland
  
  

• 2014
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) in Basel
  
  

• 2015 – 2016
  Interim chair in Münster, Germany
  
  

• 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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