Dr. Hendrik Hess
Address
Department of Medieval History
Konviktstraße 11
53113 Bonn
Room: U1.006
Phone: +49 (0) 228 73-6519
E-Mail: hess@uni-bonn.de
Office hours
Mon 4-5 p.m., registration by e-mail
Outside lecture period: registration by e-mail
© Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte
C.V.
- 2005-2011 Master's degree in Medieval and Modern History, Modern German Literature, Media Studies at the University of Bonn
- 2008-2009 Master of Studies in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, Hertford College
- 2011-2018 Doctoral studies in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Bonn
- Summer semester 2012 Research associate at the Department of Medieval History, University of Bonn
- 2012-2016 Doctoral fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Winter semester 2014/15 Research associate at the Department of Medieval History, University of Bonn
- 2016-2018 Research associate at the Department of Medieval History, University of Bonn, DFG project "Gaul between imperium and regna. The representation of contingency and its coping"
- 2018 PhD at the University of Bonn; title of the dissertation: Übergang, Hybridität, Latenz – Das Selbstverständnis der gallo-römischen Oberschicht im historischen Diskursraum von Sidonius Apollinaris bis Gregor von Tours
- 2018-2021 associate member of SFB 1167 "Power and Domination – Premodern Configurations in Transcultural Perspective"
- April 2018 to February 2019 research assciate at the Department of Medieval History, University of Bonn
- August to October 2018 parental leave
- since March 2019 Akademischer Rat auf Zeit
- August until October 2020 parental leave
- since September 2020 Member of TRA: Past Worlds and Modern Questions - Cultures Across Time and Space
- since January 2022 Member of the Center "Power and Domination. Bonn Center for Premodern Orders and their forms of communication", WG "Communicating power relations"
- July 2022: Teaching Prize of the University of Bonn for the academic year 2021/2022
- July/August 2022 parental leave
- Febuary/March 2023 parental leave
- June 2023: NRW Professional Teaching Competence for Universities certificate
- ongoing habilitation project (second book): Masculinity(ies) in the Late Middle Ages - Constructions of the manliness of the Roman-German ruler in the 14th century
Research interests
- Contingency and Coping with Contingency
- Discourse History
- Gaul in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
- Gender History of the Middle Ages
- History of Power and Domination
- Symmetry and Asymmetry
- Teaching Project "AI in University-Level History Teaching"
- Teaching Project "Mittelalter erSPIELt"