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Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, Fachstudienberater Dr. Aaron Vanides

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Dr. Aaron Vanides
2nd Floor, Room 222
Grabengasse 3-5
69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 (0)6221-54-2455
E-Mail: aaron.vanides@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

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Office Hours

Tuesday 09:30 – 11:30

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Accessibility and Inclusivity

Dr. Vanides is also available for questions concerning accessibility and inclusivity in the Historisches Seminar outside of his normal office hours. 

Additional resources and contacts can be found in the “AG Barrierefreiheit” (Eng. Working Group on Accessiblity) and the team “Inklusives Studieren” in the Central Student Advising office. 

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Thesis Advising

Dr. Vanides is available to supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses. 

Portrait of Aaron Vanides

Academic Career

2024–  Pilot Instructor, bwGPT State Project (Baden-Württemberg)
2022–2023  Young Marsilius Fellow, Marsilius-Kolleg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2020–  Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) of Medieval History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2019–2020  Assistant Professor (Universitätsassistent) of Medieval History and the Auxiliary Sciences of History, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
2018  Ph.D., Yale University
2014  Associate in Teaching, Yale University
2014  M.Phil., Yale University
2013  M.A., Yale University
2012–2014  Head Digital Assistant, „Digitally Enabled Scholarship and Medieval Manuscripts”, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ref. 31200642
2012–2013  Teaching Fellow, Yale University
2011–2015  Research Assistant for Anders Winroth, Yale University
2010  A.B., University of Chicago
2008–2009  DAAD Scholarship, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
2007  Lab Assistant, Rosenberger Collection of Judaica, University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

Academic Functions

2024–  Deputy Member of the Research Council for Field of Focus III “Kulturelle Dynamiken in globalisierten Welten”
2024–  Member of the Subject Council for Medieval Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2023–  Student Advisor in the Historisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2022–2025  Member of the Subject Council for History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2020–  Student Advisor for the History Concentration in the M.A. Medieval Studies
2020–  Member of the AG Barrierefreiheit (Working Group for Accessibility), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Selected Publications

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A Cultural History of Transport and Mobility in the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), Hrsg. mit Romedio Schmitz-Esser
Rhetoric in Crisis: Speech, Media, and Power at the Council of Constance, 1414-1418 (in Vorbereitung)
“Emperor as Audience: Speech and Authority under Sigismund of Luxemburg” (in Vorbereitung).
“The Discovery of Poggio Bracciolini” (in Vorbereitung).
“Causa 1” in Decretum Gratiani. Monumenta Iuris Canonici Serie B, Corpus Collectionum (laufende Langzeitedition), mit Anders Winroth et al.
Rezension von Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521 von Duncan Hardy, Speculum 95, Nr. 2 (2020): 565-57.
Kurt Flasch, Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity. Trans. Anne Schindel and Aaron Vanides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
“Disabilities? Gifts?” U-Access: A Newsletter about Disability Issues at the University of Chicago 4, Nr. 2 (2008).

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