PD Dr. Iris Fleßenkämper

Iris Fleßenkämper has been the Secretary of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study since October 2021. Before that, from 2007 to 2021, she was the Academic Business Manager of the Excellence Cluster “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster. Her research interests include the scholarly culture in Enlightenment Scotland, the diversity of marriage law in Reformation and post-Reformation Germany, and the relationship between gender and violence in the early modern period.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• 07/2022: Habilitation (postdoctoral degree required in Germany for a professorship) (venia legendi: Modern History), Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Münster
• 07/2007: Doctorate in Early Modern History, Faculty of Philology and History, University of Augsburg (summa cum laude)
• 08/2003 – 07/2006: Doctoral candidate at the Graduate College “Modern Fields of Knowledge. The Rise and Construction of the European Culture of Information”, Institute for European Cultural History, University of Augsburg
• 11/2002: First state examination (secondary level I and II), University of Münster
• 10/1998 – 09/1999: Study abroad in the fields of European History, Scottish History, and Scottish Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK
• 10/1995-11/2002: Training to teach in the fields of History, English, and Pedagogy, University of Münster
• 10/1995-09/1996: Masters program in the fields of History, English, and Philosophy, University of Oldenburg
• 6/1995: German Abitur and French Baccalauréat (high school diploma)

• 09/2006 – 10/2007: Research assistant at the Institute for European Cultural History, University of Augsburg
• 11/2007 – 09/2021: Academic manager and postdoctoral researcher of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics“, University of Münster
• since 10/2021: Secretary of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study