New Faces at CSMC

1 September 2022

Photo: CSMC

At the beginning of September, we welcome new professors, research associates, and Petra Kappert Fellows at CSMC.

Shervin Farridnejad will take up the professorship of Iranian Studies on 1 September. He previously worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Iranian Studies at FU Berlin since 2016. He is a specialist in Iranian cultural and religious history of antiquity, especially Zoroastrianism and the art and iconography of this religion.

Daniel Kudó Tovar, who is a musicologist and composer, also joins CSMC as a Research Associate on 1 September. Together with Matteo Nanni, he will be working on the project ‘Archiving Colonialism. The Collections of Musical Manuscripts form Peru’ in Research Field E, ‘Archiving Artefacts’, at the Cluster of Excellence. 

Nuria de Castilla, who is Full Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and a member of the Cluster of Excellence, will join CSMC as a Petra Kappert Fellow from 1 to 30 September. She is a specialist in the History of the manuscript book in Arabic script and Codicology. While at CSMC, she will be working on her current book project ‘The transmission of written culture in 15th-16th century Islamic West’.

Susana Torres Prieto, Assistant Professor of Humanities at IE University (Spain), will also start her Petra Kappert Fellowship on 1 September and stay in Hamburg until 30 November. She is an expert on medieval Slavic literature and especially on the literature, culture, and the means and contexts of transmission of knowledge in Russia from the Middle Ages until today.