Verena Krebs

Vita

Positions

 

• since 2017 - W1 Professor at the Junior Professorship for "Medieval Cultural Realms and their Entanglements, Faculty of History, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
   

• 2015-2018 - Associate Researcher, Research Fellow, Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 
   

• 2016-2017 - Truman Research Fellow, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace,  Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   

• 2014-2017 - Martin Buber Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
   

• 2012-2014 - Visiting researcher at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg University; specialist for object and artwork description for the European Research Council research project "ETHIO-SPARE: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preservation, Research" (Dr. Denis Nosnitsin) 
   

• 2011-2012 - Visiting researcher at the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Mek'elle University, Ethiopia 
   

• 2011 - Visiting researcher at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 

 

Education and Degrees

• 2010-2014 - Dr. phil. / PhD, summa cum laude, University of Konstanz, Germany, and Mekelle University, Ethiopia (bi-national degree)
   

• 2007-2010 - M.A. in History with distinction, University of Konstanz, Germany (of this 8 months at University of York, UK, in the MA program Medieval History)
   

• 2004-2007 - B.A. in Literature, Art and Media Studies with distinction, University of Konstanz, Germany

 

Publications

Book

• Material Diplomacy: Culture Contact with Latin Christianity and Western Christian Art in Ethiopia, 1400-1550 (under review)
   

Edited Volume (forthcoming)

• Krebs, V. and Gnisci, J.: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the History of Art and Architecture in Ethiopia, Vienna, 2-6 September 2013, London (forthcoming 2018).    

• Krebs, V. and Girke, F.: Special issue “Untold Ethiopian Histories”, Journal for Eastern African Studies (in preparation).
   

Journal Articles and Contributions (peer reviewed): ​

• Krebs, V. ‘Royal Ethiopian patronage and hybrid ‘färänğ’ styles: A new approach to art in Ethiopia, 1460-1530’, ITYOP̣IS – Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (accepted for publication June 2016, forthcoming).

• Krebs, V. ‘Crusading threats? Ethiopian-Egyptian relations in the 1440s’, Crusading in Africa, ed. Benjamin Weber (accepted for publication August 2017, forthcoming).

• Krebs, V. and Kribus, B. ‘Betä Ǝsra’el (Ethiopian Jewish) Monastic Sites North of Lake Ṭana: Preliminary Results of an Exploratory Field Trip to Ethiopia in December 2015’, Entangled Religions. Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer (accepted for publication September 2017, forthcoming).

• Krebs, V. ‘Prester John, interrupted: The longevity of an ‘Ethiopian’ phantom embassy to Europe in the early 14th century’ (revised and resubmitted November 2017).

• Krebs, V. ‘The diplomat and the messenger: Disentangling two episodes of Ethiopian-Latin diplomatic relations in the late 1470s and the early 1480s’ (undergoing revisions). 

• ‘Äthiopien und Europa: Mittelalterliche Kontakte und ihr Einfluss auf die Äthiopische Kunst’, in: Kirche und Schule in Äthiopien, 63 (2010).