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Incoming Director's Visitor

Katharina Heyden

Field of Study

History and Theology
Katharina Heyden researches the entangled and ambivalent histories and hermeneutics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their respective 'pagans' in antiquity and the Middle Ages. At the IAS, she will work on specific cases of "religious co-production" and complete a book on hospitality as a cultural practice and a theological concept.

Dates at IAS

Director's Visitor

Degrees

Universität Göttingen
Dr. Habil
2014
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Ph.D.
2008
Humboldt Universität Berlin
Diploma
2003

Honors

2023
Consolidator Grant ERC/SNSF
2020
Credit Suisse Award for Best Academic Teaching
2012
Member of the German Young Academy
2009
Research Award Society for the Study of the Christian Orient

Appointments

Universität Bern
2019
Full Professor
Universität Bern
2014–2019
Professor