Patrick Geary Honored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Patrick Geary (second from left) receives the Anneliese Maier Award in Heidelberg, Germany. He is pictured with (from left to right) German Federal Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan; Bernd Schneidmüller, Professor at the University of Heidelberg; and Helmut Schwarz, President of the Humboldt Stiftung. (photo credit: Humboldt Foundation/S. Lencinas)

Patrick J. Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Anneliese Maier Award, which honors outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences and seeks to strengthen German scholarship's international ties. The award was presented in Heidelberg on September 13 by Annette Schavan, the German Federal Minister for Research and Technology. The award ceremony was part of a symposium for which the award winners, their German cooperation partners and approximately one hundred other German and international humanities scholars and social scientists convened at the University of Heidelberg from September 12 to 14. The key subjects of the interdisciplinary meeting were the Europeanization of family law and new developments in medieval studies. Geary, one of seven recipients of the award in 2012, will use the 250,000 euro prize to intensify his collaboration with German and other European scholars in transcultural and genetic history.