Stephanie Marra

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Stephanie Marra (* 1970 in Hattingen ) is a German historian and archivist .

Life

Marra studied history , prehistory and early history and Romance studies in Bochum and Genoa as well as museology in Graz . After completing her Magister Artium (1998) and doctorate (2002) at the Ruhr University in Bochum , she worked as a scientist and lecturer at the Technical University of Dortmund . As a historian, she was actively represented on the Internet at an early stage and has been developing various online catalogs and historical specialist offers since 1991, including the oldest online history catalog on the German-language Internet. To this day she is a member of the editorial board of the scientific specialist forums H-Soz-u-Kult , Clio Online and (as editor) H-Museum as well as in the Virtual Library.

Since 2002 she has been working as a specialist in history, art, cultural anthropology of textiles, philosophy, politics, Protestant and Catholic theology as well as scientific director of the library of the Research Center East Central Europe (FOME) at the Dortmund University Library. In 2008 she also took over the development and management of the University Archives at TU Dortmund University, and since 2012 she has headed the Archives and Collections department. In 2016 she was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Awards

research

Marra researches primarily on the social history of the early modern nobility, in particular on conflict research and the exchange of gifts, the history of collections in archives, libraries and museums, the Westphalian regional history with a focus on the Counties of Mark and the Counties of Limburg and Jewish history. In addition, she is a specialist in the use of the Internet and IT in the field of history and in teaching.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hagen. History of a big city and its region, Essen: Klartext, 2008. (with Ralf Blank and Gerhard E. Sollbach) ISBN 978-3-89861-893-9
  • Alliances of the nobility. Dynastic action in the Grafenhaus Bentheim in the 16th and 17th centuries, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau, 2007. ISBN 3-412-31105-7
  • Internet-Handbuch Geschichte, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau for UTB, 2001. (Ed. With Stuart Jenks) ISBN 3-412-12100-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog History on the Internet ( Memento from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Page at the Dortmund University Library
  3. ↑ page of the archive
  4. ^ Report in the Science Information Service of December 13, 2000
  5. ↑ Review in H-Soz-u-Kult
  6. ↑ Review in H-Soz-u-Kult
personal data
SURNAME Marra, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattingen