Profile of Prof. Dr. Kristin Skottki
Since February 2024
Professor of Medieval History at UBT
Spring Term 2023
Max Kade Guest Professorship at Notre Dame University, IN, USA
Summer Term 2019
Positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship
Winter Term 2016/17
W1 Junior Professor (with tenure-track option to W2) for Medieval History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bayreuth
Winter Term 2009/10 until
Summer Term 2016Research assistant at the Chair for Church History (Heinrich Holze) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Rostock
January 2011
Doctorate Doctor rerum religionum (Dr. rer. rel.) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Rostock (grade: summa cum laude)
Topic of the dissertation: Cultural encounters between Christians and Muslims on the First Crusade in historical and historiographical perspective (First examiner: Heinrich Holze, Rostock; Second examiners: Michael Borgolte, Berlin & Felicitas Schmieder, Hagen)Winter Term 2006/07 until
Summer Term 2009Stipendiary of the DFG Graduate School “Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship” at the University of Rostock (from WT 2009/2010 until ST 2011 as Fellow)
April 2006
Graduation as Magister artium (M.A.) in History and Theology/Religious Studies (Grade: 1,1)
Topic of the M.A. thesis: Investigation of the grave monuments of St. Mary’s church in Rostock (Examiners: Wolfgang-Eric Wagner & Ernst Münch)April 2005
Graduation as Bakkalaureus artium (B.A.) for History and Theology/Religious Studies (Grade: 1,0)
Topic of the B.A. thesis: Eschatological Expectations and Ideas of the Afterlife around the Year 1000 in Frankish and Italian Annales (Examiner: Wolfgang-Eric Wagner)Summer Term 2001 until
Winter Term 2005/06Studies at the University of Rostock: History, Theology/Religious Studies
Winter Term 2000/01
Studies at the University of Greifswald: History, English Literature, Christian Archaeology
Since October 2025
Elected Women's Representative for the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Since 2022
Principal Investigator at PK 053
Since 2021
Member of the DFG Scientific Network „Die Absicht der Anderen. Zur sozialen Wirksamkeit von Intentionszuschreibungen im europäischen Mittelalter“ (Heads: Marcel Bubert, Münster & Jan-Hendryk De Boer, Duisburg-Essen)
Since Winter Term 2019/20
Program manager (together with Joël Glasman) of the Master’s program Global History
Since Summerterm 2019
Responsible at the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences for the Interdisciplinary Advanced Study Program Intersectionality Studies and Diversity Competencies
Since Winterterm 2017/18
Member of the doctoral committee of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences of the University of Bayreuth
Since 2017
Member of the Network Gender, Queer, Intersectionality und Diversity Studies (GeQuInDi) at the University of Bayreuth
Seit 2017
Member of the Focus Area (Emerging Field) Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes at the University of Bayreuth
Since February 2024
Professor of Medieval History at UBT
Spring Term 2023
Max Kade Guest Professorship at Notre Dame University, IN, USA
Summer Term 2019
Positive interim evaluation of the junior professorship
Winter Term 2016/17
W1 Junior Professor (with tenure-track option to W2) for Medieval History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bayreuth
Winter Term 2009/10 until
Summer Term 2016Research assistant at the Chair for Church History (Heinrich Holze) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Rostock
January 2011
Doctorate Doctor rerum religionum (Dr. rer. rel.) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Rostock (grade: summa cum laude)
Topic of the dissertation: Cultural encounters between Christians and Muslims on the First Crusade in historical and historiographical perspective (First examiner: Heinrich Holze, Rostock; Second examiners: Michael Borgolte, Berlin & Felicitas Schmieder, Hagen)Winter Term 2006/07 until
Summer Term 2009Stipendiary of the DFG Graduate School “Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship” at the University of Rostock (from WT 2009/2010 until ST 2011 as Fellow)
April 2006
Graduation as Magister artium (M.A.) in History and Theology/Religious Studies (Grade: 1,1)
Topic of the M.A. thesis: Investigation of the grave monuments of St. Mary’s church in Rostock (Examiners: Wolfgang-Eric Wagner & Ernst Münch)April 2005
Graduation as Bakkalaureus artium (B.A.) for History and Theology/Religious Studies (Grade: 1,0)
Topic of the B.A. thesis: Eschatological Expectations and Ideas of the Afterlife around the Year 1000 in Frankish and Italian Annales (Examiner: Wolfgang-Eric Wagner)Summer Term 2001 until
Winter Term 2005/06Studies at the University of Rostock: History, Theology/Religious Studies
Winter Term 2000/01
Studies at the University of Greifswald: History, English Literature, Christian Archaeology