Anne-Charlott stairs

Anne-Charlott Trepp (born October 3, 1962 in Eutin ) is a German historian and university professor .

Scientific career

Anne-Charlott Trepp studied history, German and Latin philology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel . For her dissertation on the gender relations in the Hamburg bourgeoisie in the period from 1770 to 1840 she received the young talent award of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences in 1994 . From 1994 to 2004, Trepp worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen . Between 1995 and 2001 she was employee representative in the Humanities Section and the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society as well as press spokeswoman for the institute. She completed her habilitation in 2006 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a study on the relationship between science and religion in the early modern period. From 2007 to 2008 she represented the professorship for regional historical research at the University of Göttingen, together with the acting head of the institute for regional historical research. In 2009, Trepp accepted a professorship for Early Modern History at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 2009 to 2013 she was on the board of the “Early Modern Age” working group in the Association of Historians in Germany . In 2011 she was a mentor of the Seventeenth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Early Modern German History, German Historical Institute, Washington DC. Since 2012 she has been Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Kassel .

Research priorities

Her research focuses on the history of knowledge and religion, the history of animal-human relationships, historical future research, the history of entanglements and missions, the history of the sexes and the history of the Enlightenment.

Since 2009 she has been Principal Investigator at the “Center for Religious Studies” (CERES) and since 2010 a member of the Käte Hamburger Center “Dynamics of Religious History between Asia and Europe” at the University of Bochum. She was also a member of the international research group "Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe: Constructions in Motion (Attachments, Languages, Objects), DFG-funded within the framework of the Atelier trilatéral Villa Vigoni (duration 2014-2016).

From 2012 to 2016 she was a member / applicant in the DFG Research Training Group 1599 “Dynamics of Space and Gender” (Kassel / Göttingen) and in the Loewe focus “Animal-Human-Society” (duration 2014–2017). From 2017 to 2019 she was the spokesperson for the requested SFB 1453 "Animal-Human-Society: Animation - Regulation - Transformation (ART)".

Since July 2017 she has been the spokesperson for the interdisciplinary joint project "Back to the Future. Social and Future Drafts from a Historical Perspective", funded by the University of Kassel's profile education program.

Offices

Trepp has been a member of the Society for the History of Science since 2004 and a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse since 2014 . From 2013 to 2015 she was the spokesperson for the history department in the social sciences department at the University of Kassel. She has been a member of the Senate of the University of Kassel since 2015.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Of the bliss of knowing everything. The exploration of nature as a religious practice in the early modern period (1550–1750) . Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. Munich 2009.
• Gentle masculinity and independent femininity. Women and men in the Hamburg bourgeoisie between 1770 and 1840 (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History , 123). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996.

Editors' publications

• Ancient wisdom and cultural practice. Hermetism in the early modern period (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History , 171). Edited with Hartmut Lehmann . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001.
• In times of crisis. Religiousness in the 17th century (= publications by the Max Planck Institute for History , 152). Edited with Hartmut Lehmann. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999.
• Gender History and General History. Challenges and perspectives (= Göttingen Talks on History , 5). Edited with Hans Medick . Goettingen 1998.

Web links

• Anne-Charlott Trepp on the website of the University of Kassel
• Between inspiration and isolation. Exploring nature as a piety practice in the first half of the 18th century . In: zeitenblicke 5 (2006), No. 1: Religious history of the modern age. Profiles and Perspectives . Edited by Monika Neugebauer-Wölk .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences , 10th edition, 2012/2013, Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, p. 606.