Nora Berend#
| Membership Number: | 7169 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-nora-berend |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018, 10 - present Professor of European History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- 2017, 09 - 2021, 08 Professor II Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
- 2015, 10 - 2018, 09 Reader, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- 2005, 10 - 2015, 09 University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- 2003, 01 - 2005, 09 University Lecturer, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- 2000, 10 - 2002, 12 Assistant University Lecturer, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- 1999, 10 - 2000, 09 University Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- 1996, 10 - 1999, 09 Research Fellow, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Uses of the medieval in the present
- Non-Christian groups in the Middle Ages
- Hungarian medieval history
- Medieval religious and cultural interaction
- Formation of identity
- Christianization
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Visiting professor, University of Valladolid, Spain
- 2021 Visiting professor, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate, University of Stockholm, Sweden
- 2017 Visiting professor, University of Mannheim, Germany
- 2016 Visiting professor, University of Stockholm, Sweden
- 2014 Visiting professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 2013 - 2014 Invited Fellow, K. Hamburger Kolleg, University of Bochum, Germany
- 2012 - 2013 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Mannheim, Germany
- 2010 Visiting Professor, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
- 2002 - 2004 Innovation Award from the AHRB for the project Christianization and State-Formation in Northern and Central Europe, c. 950 - c. 1200 (one year with intermission)
- 2003 The American Association for the Study of Hungarian History’s Biennial Book Prize for At the Gate of Christendom
- 2002 The Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone prize (best book on a non-British topic) for At the Gate of Christendom
- 2001 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- 2000 Visiting professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 1996 - 1999 Research Fellow, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
