Michael Borgolte#
| Membership Number: | 3535 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 June (-2017 May) Principal Investigator of "FOUNDMED. Foundations in medieval societies", ERC-Advanced Grant
- 2008 October - 2009 September Fellowship at the "Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien", Erfurt
- 2006 February - 2008 March Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2005 July - June 2011 Spokesman of the German Research Foundation Priority Programme 1173
- 2004-2006 Representative of the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin
- 1998-today Director of the "Institute for the Comparative History of Europe in the Middle Ages" at the Humboldt University
- 1994-1996 Director of the "Institute for History" at the Humboldt University
- 1991-today Full Professor for Medieval History at the Humboldt University in Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Transcultural comparisons of medieval societies
- History of foundations in the premodern world
- European and global history of the Middle Ages
- History of migrations, esp. in the Middle Ages
- History and theory of historiography
- Medievalism in the modern world
- Church History
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Advanced Grant of the European Research Council for "Foundations in medieval societies. Cross-cultural comparisons"
- 2010 Member of the Advisory Board of "The legal status of religious minorities in the Euro-mediterr. world, 5th-15th c.", Nantes
- 2008/2009 Fellow at the "Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien" in Erfurt
- 2008 Full Member of the "Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte" e. V.
- 2008 Member of the Editorial Board of "Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies", Los Angeles
- 2007 Member of the Reviewers Board of the "Institute of Cultural Studies, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Dialogue", Tbilisi (Georgia)
- 2007 Member of the Editorial Board of "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften", Berlin
- 2006 Full Member of the "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", Munich
- 2005 Appointment as a full member of the "Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities", Geisteswiss. Klasse
- 2003-2010 Appointment to the Advisory Board of the "German Historical Institute" in Washington
- 2002 First Prize "Das Historisch-Politische Buch 2002" by the online journal H-Soz-h-Kult for "Europa entdeckt seine Vielfalt"
- 1998 Member of the Editorial Board of "Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte"
- 1984 Award of a Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation
