Gerrit Jasper Schenk

Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Dr. phil.) is professor of medieval history at Technische Universit�t Darmstadt (Germany). He has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Essen and has held fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the German Historical Institutes (Rome, Paris). He is an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (University of Heidelberg). His main research interests are rituals, ceremonies, pilgrimage, environmental...See more

Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Dr. phil.) is professor of medieval history at Technische Universit�t Darmstadt (Germany). He has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Essen and has held fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the German Historical Institutes (Rome, Paris). He is an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (University of Heidelberg). His main research interests are rituals, ceremonies, pilgrimage, environmental history, historical disaster research and urban history. Most recently he has coedited books on Historical Disasters in Context (2012), Krisengeschichte(n) (2013), Disaster as Image (2014) and Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe. Von Atlantis bis heute (2014). See less