Volker Menze

June 25, 2024
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Volker Menze is currently editing a volume on From Ctesiphon to Toledo: Comparative Perspectives on Early Church Councils in East and West 300-700 and is Head of the Department of Historical Studies.

He supervises the following doctoral dissertations:

  • Nelson Bennett (Chaos and Opportunity: Women in Power in Late Antiquity)
  • Çiçek Dereli (A Place Biography: From Stoudios Monastery to Door Place Number 1)
  • Ada Kök (Emperor Justinian, Pope Pelagius, and the Making of the North Italian Ecclesiastical Schism during the Three Chapters Controversy (544–561))
  • Anastasiia Morozova (Between Emotionally Roman and un-Roman: Emotive Scripts, Contexts, and Cultural Translation in Cassidorus’s non-religious texts)
  • Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo (Deus Ludit: Crusading Medievalisms, Procedural Rhetoric and the Approaching of Contentious Past in Video Games)
  • Vijay Ramchandani (Continuity and Change in the Biocultural Heritage of Fakirani Jats in Western India: Pastoralist interactions with state-level society from early modern kingships to the modern state)

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