PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Michael Green
dr hab. Michael Green
SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES
POSITION DESCRIPTION
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
I am historian of Early Modern society. I have finished my PhD at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Since then I held various research and teaching positions in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Spain and Poland.
Podcast "Historians in Conversation"
In this podcast, I explore how historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? I welcome you to my podcast, where I will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.
Episode 1, 12 July 2022: Prof. (em.) Willem Frijhoff, from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, a prominent Dutch historian, who shaped the shape of Dutch history in the past 40 years. His research interests range from history of religious persecution and migration, through history of education to local history. Willem Frijhoff talks about his academic beginnings, decision to quit seminary and study history, his education in France and then his decision to return to the Netherlands. You will also hear about the challenges and goals that a historian, especially a young historian, is facing nowadays.
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Episode 2, 15 August 2022: Dr. Rudolf Dekker, the director of the Center for the Study of Egodocuments and History in the Netherlands. He is best known for his research into the historical sources known as “egodocuments”. These are diaries, letters, memoirs and other sources where the authors wrote about themselves. He is the director of the Center for the Study of Egodocuments and History in the Netherlands. The talk focuses on Rudolf Dekker’s early days as a child and adolescent in Amsterdam, his study and the decision to pursue history as profession, as well as choice for various research projects he conducted. Among the topic he worked on we find history of childhood, popular apprising, gender and queer history, source editing and contemporary state of affairs in the discipline. The final part of the talk is focusing on his recent publication on the topic of plagiarism in historical research.
Episode 3, 15 September 2022: Prof. Elizabeth Tingle, historian from the De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Elizabeth Tingle has a rich career as a historian, working on Reformation and Counter Reformation, and currently on cathedrals and collegiate churches in early modern Europe, focusing on their influence in urban culture and economy, but also in university administration, serving as head of department. In this episode, we discuss her academic path, starting with her childhood interest history, and then the choice to study in London away from her family, her motivation for doing a PhD and finally the decision to pursue an academic career as a young woman in the 1980s and the inspiration to become a university teacher.
Episode 4, 17 October 2022: Mirella Marini. In the 4th episode of the podcast “Historians in Conversation” the guest of Michaël Green is Mirella Marini, an independent Belgian historian, who is interested in the field of Court Studies. Growing up in the border region of Belgium, she became fascinated with history at an early age. Nonetheless, she started her education as a lawyer, but changed direction into history, which she studied at the University of Leuven in Belgium. The conversation revolves the perspective of an independent historian on combination of historical research and non-academic working career, and on the ways one can pursue their dream, even when circumstances dictate to follow a non-traditional path. Mireilla Marini is the author of several important scholarly publications, among them ‘Dynastic Relations on an International Stage. Margaret de la Mark (1527-1599) and the Development of the Arenberg Family Identity’ in: Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500. Glenda Sluga et al eds, Routledge, 2015, 46-67.
Episode 5, 15 November 2022: Dr. Anu Lahtinen, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies, University of Helsinki. Specialising on Medieval and early modern Finnish women and servants, Anu Lahtinen is a very active researcher, who throughout the years was engaged in numerous scholarly projects and published extensively. The conversation in this episode of the podcast discusses her academic beginnings – BA and MA studies at the University of Turku in Finland and her choice of a PhD programme that brought her first to the Netherlands and then to Italy and Germany, and then how she paved her way in the academia. What decisions that have to be taken in order to establish a successful academic career, how to help yourself focus, why is it important to have international experience? Finally, Anu Lahtinen reveals the advice that her mother gave her, an advice that had a direct impact on her success. For more information on her work, consult Anu Lahtinen’s recent publications: Lahtinen, Anu & Katajamäki, Terhi: Sealed with tears: material and social meanings of a royal letter by Countess Palatine Anna (Vasa) (1545–1610). Prace Polonistyczne 2021, 217-235. doi.org/10.26485/PP/2021/76/9 and Lahtinen, Anu & Terhi Katajamäki: Anna Vasa (1568-1625), Lutheran Sister of the Catholic King. Women Reformers in Early Modern Europe. Profiles, Texts, and Contexts, edited by Kirsi Stjerna. Media 1517, Minneapolis 2022, 361-368. Check out also the short biographies of Swedish early modern women, written for the Swedish Women's biographical dictionary: skbl.se/en/articleauthor/Lahtinen%2C%20Anu
Episode 6, 15 December 2022: Dr. Christine Smith-Simonsen, Associate Professor at the Department of Archeology, History and Religion and Centre for Peace Studies, UiT Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. Coming from Oslo, she chose to study history in the most norther university in Norway and build her academic career there. With research interest spanninng from contemporary history of Africa, in particular Eirthrea and Ethiopia, to water conflcits in North America, she has been working at UiT for many years, serving as Director of the Centre for Peace Studies and recently as an interim head of Department for Archeology, History and Religion. In this podcast, we discuss her academic path and inspirations, as well as the ways in which one can apply historical knowledge also on the general job market. Check out her recent article:"SDG 16 – The Many Pieces of Peace", in Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Martin Gutmann and Daniel Gorman, Oxford University Press, 2022. https://academic.oup.com/book/41441/chapter-abstract/352791421?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Episode 7, 15 January 2023: Prof. Maciej Kokoszko is the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History and the Head of Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. In this episode the conversation revolves around the questions of personal determination and setting professional goals which are set early in life. Prof. Kokoszko is a recognised historian of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period, with scholarly interests in medicine, food and drink of the time. Among his publications:
Kokoszko Maciej, Jagusiak Krzysztof, Rzeźnicka Zofia, Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times. Wheat and barley in medical sources, tłum. K. Wodarczyk, M. Zakrzewski, M. Zytka, Łódź – Kraków 2014. Kokoszko Maciej, Jagusiak Krzysztof, Rzeźnicka Zofia, Dybała Jolanta, Pedanius Dioscorides' remarks on milk properties, quality and processing technology, “Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports”, vol. 19, 2018, s. 982–986. Rzeźnicka Zofia, Kokoszko Maciej, Milk and Dairy Products in the Medicine and Culinary Art of Antiquity and Early Byzantium (1st–7th Centuries AD), Łódź – Kraków 2020. Kokoszko Maciej, Anthimus and his Work, or On Aromatics and Wildfowl in De Observatione Ciborum, “Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae”, vol. 31, no. 2, 2021, p. 59-95. Kokoszko Maciej, On Anthimus and his work, “Vox Patrum”, vol. 81, 2022, p. 65-90.
Department of Historical and Classical Studies at the NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He developed his interest in history at an early age, being fascinated by World War Two and its impact on his own city, but later he discovered the ancient history, which became his main scholarly focus. In our conversation, we discuss how these scholarly interests developed, motivations and challenges in the academic career, and also the perspective of a head of department on the hiring process. Among Dr. Hatlen’s works: J. Wettlaufer, D. Nash, J.F. Hatlen, Honor and Shame in Western History ,2023. https://www.routledge.com/Honor-and-Shame-in-Western-History/Wettlaufer-Nash-Hatlen/p/book/9780367901486; J.F. Hatlen, Historikerens kode. Veien til historisk forståelse (2020). https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/historikerens-kode
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Episode 9, 15 March 2023:
In episode 9 of his podcast Historians in Conversation, Michaël Green talks to Prof. Owen Stanwood, professor at Boston College in Massachusetts, USA. His interests lie in history of colonial America and European endeavours overseas, specializing among others in the French Protestants of the early modern period. The conversation revolves around the formative moments in Prof. Stanwood’s interest in history in his childhood, university studies, his academic career and the various career options he faced, as well as the specificities of the American university system and the job market.
Owen Stanwood’s latest book is The Global Refuge: Huguenots in the Age of Empire, Oxford, 2020. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-global-refuge-9780190264741?cc=us&lang=en&#
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tuesday: 11:45-13:15 in the spring semester, by appointment