Dr. Monika Mommertz
Lehrbeauftragte (Geschichte)
Büro
Departement Geschichte
Hirschgässlein 21
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Lehrbeauftragte (Geschichte)
Büro
Hirschgässlein 21
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Monika Mommertz teaches Early Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, since 2016. She studied history, philosophy and literature at the Free University in Berlin and the Universitat de Catalunya Barcelona. At the European University Institute in Florence, she obtained her PhD with a thesis on gender meanings in peasant society in Brandenburg around 1600. She received grants and fellow-ships – among others - of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Max-Plack-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin twice, the Universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Vienna, and also, twice, from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at Humboldt-University, Berlin. Her last project on Heroisation in 17th century European Science was funded by the Collaborative Research Center 948 at Freiburg University.
Her research interests cover early modern history of knowledge and science, history of violence, and history of religion often in gender and global perspectives. Her actual project focuses on early modern heroisation, exclusion and knowledge transfer in a “longue durée” perspective; most recently she edited a volume on Heroization in science, scholarship, and knowledge-production (2018) andcoedited, together with Carolin Hauck, Thomas Seedorf and Andreas Schlüter, another volume on Tracing the Heroic through Gender (2018). In 2020 appeared Körper – Macht – Geschlecht. Einsichten und Aussichten zwischen Mittelalter und Gegenwart, which she coedited with Anna Becker, Almut Höfert, and Sophie Ruppel.