Hiram Kümper

General information

born 1981 in Bochum
studied History, Philosohy and German Language and Literature (B.A. 2004/05, M.A. 2005/06) at Bochum University
2007 doctorat in Medieval and Modern History at Mannheim University

Professional experience

March 2005 – June 2008 graduate assistant at Bochum University, Didactics of History
winter term 2005/06 – 2007/08 assistant lecturer at Bochum University
winter term 2007/08 visiting lecturer at Koblenz-Landau University
August 2008 – March 2009 research assistant at Vechta University
winter term 2008/09 visiting lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg
since April 2009 assistent professor (Akademischer Rat) for Medieval and Early Modern History at Bielefeld University
spring term 2010 visting professor for Medieval History at Mannheim University

Awards

RUBeL eLearning Award 2008
Award for the Communication of Sciences and Humanities of the Salzburger Hochschulwochen 2008

Fellowships

June 2005 scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service for Opole, Poland
October – December 2006 doctoral scholarship at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel, Findel-Stiftung)
Juli 2007 Medieval History Seminar, German Historical Institute Washington
April – June 2008 Fellow for Intellectual History/ History of Ideas (Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung)
July 2008 master class „Construction and Boundaries“ with John R. Searle, Fredrik Barth und Thomas Luckmann (Exzellenzcluster Konstanz University)
September 2008 visiting scholarship of the German Historical Institute London
October 2008 stipendiary of the Studi storici italo-germanici, Trento („Perdono, grazia, giustizia. Figure della clemenza fra tardo medioevo ed età contemporanea”)
since October 2009/10 non-resident scholar at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (Erfurt)
since 2009 member of the Young Scholars Network at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (ZiF) Bielefeld
February 2010 Karl Ferdinand Werner-Fellow at the Institut Historique Allemand Paris
September & October 2010 Fellow at the International Gender Forum, Tübingen University

Miscellaneous

summer 2006 research project „Nachlass Christian Ulrich Grupen (1692-1767)“ (RWLE-Möller-Stiftung, Celle)
2007 and 2009 assistant for the commitee of the Geschichtswettbewerbs des Bundespräsidenten (Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg)
spring 2007 documentary project „Alte und kostbare Drucke“ der Stadtbibliothek Duisburg (Bürgerverein Duisburg e.V.)
since 2008 associated with the International Medieval Bibliography (Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds) for „Legal History“