Institute of Modern History

Johannes Gradel

Research Assistant

Contact

Department of History
Institute of Modern History
Wilhelmstraße 36
72074 Tübingen
+49 (0) 7071 29-78505
Johannes.Gradelspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office

Hegelbau, 2nd floor, room 204, or via zoom

Appointments during semester break: After taking contact via email.

Vita

since 05/2024
Research Assistant

in the DFG-funded project “Actors, Spaces, Translations: A History of Interactions and Relationships in the Capuchin Mission in the Kingdom of Kongo (c. 1645-1715)”

since 01/2023
Research Assistant

in the DFG Priority Programme 2130 “Cultures of Translation in Early Modern Times”

since 12/2022
Doctoral Student

Global History of the Early Modern Period, Department of Modern History, Tübingen University, supervised by Jun. Prof. Dr. Christina Brauner

05/2021-07/2022
Tutor

in Medieval History, Tübingen University

10/2019-07/2022
Master’s programme of History and Latin Philology

at Tübingen University and the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

04/2018-12/2020
Mentor

in Latin Philology, Tübingen University

04/2017-12/2022
Student Assistant

in the Emmy Noether research project “Power and Influence: Influencing Emperors between Antiquity and the Middle Ages”, Tübingen University

10/2015-09/2019
Bachelor’s programme of History and Latin Philology

at Tübingen University

Research

 

PhD project

Actors, Spaces, Translations: A History of Interactions and Relationships in the Capuchin Mission in the Kingdom of Kongo (c. 1645-1715)

Priorities

  • History of West Central Africa
  • Early Modern Mission History
  • 18th century cartography

Talks

  • Die vernachlässigte Seite des Atlantiks. Quellen und Methoden zu Westafrika im „Zeitalter der Entdeckungen“, Tagung "Klassische Themen des Geschichtsunterrichts globalgeschichtlich perspektiviert", Braunschweig, 29th Februar 2024.
  • Tracing the wild dog. Interpreting African knowledge about animals in a Capuchin mission report (1712) and its translations, Informeller Workshop "Knowledge & Translation in the early modern Atlantic World", Tübingen, 9th Februar 2024.
  • The elephant in the room. De-centring an episode in Girolamo da Montesarchio's report of the Capuchin mission in the Kingdom of Kongo (17th century), 10th Cambridge-Tübingen Workshop, Cambridge, 11th September 2023.