Courant Research Centre "Education and Religion"

Curriculum Vitae

Undine Ott (born 1982 in Wittenberg/Germany) studied


  • History
  • Islamic Studies


    • Education and Research Experience

  • 2012-present PhD student at the Courant Research Centre EDRIS



  • 2012-2013 Researcher at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO), in a project on The early medieval centers along the Danube: Urban topography, Christianity and trade between Central Europe and the Black Sea



  • 2011 and 2014 Research assistant at GWZO Leipzig



  • 2003-2011 M. A. (Magister) in History and Islamic Studies, University of Leipzig





Further Academic Experience

  • Academic year 2014/15 Awarded a visiting fellowship in the ERC project Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


  • 2013 and 2014 Contributed to an Autumn School on pre-modern global history and a Spring School on Mamluk studies, hosted by the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250-1517), University of Bonn


  • 2012 Participated in a Summer School for the Uzbek language in Samarkand, financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and organized by the Humboldt University of Berlin, Central Asian Seminar and the Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages


  • 2008 Participated in a summer program on Italian history for undergraduates and graduates at the German Historical Institute in Rome