Academic CV:

Since October 2004 Professorship for Early Modern History, University of Oldenburg

WS 2003/04 and SoSe 2004 interim professorship Prof. Dr Ronald G. Asch, University of Osnabrück

November 2003 Appointment as senior assistant (C-2) at the University of Osnabrück

October 2003 Habilitation at the University of Osnabrück, Faculty 2; awarded the Venia legendi "Modern and Contemporary History"

1998-2003 Research Assistant, Modern History, University of Osnabrück (C-1)

1995-1998 Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London

1992-1994 Research assistant in Department 1 (Bishop's Department) at the Evangelical Church Council, Karlsruhe, as head of the Women's Decade Centre

1992-1998 Freelancer at the Protestant Academy Baden, Bad Herrenalb

1992 Awarded a doctorate from the University of Cambridge

1991-92 Trainee teacher at the district grammar school in Gundelfingen/Freiburg i. Br.

1988-1991 Research and doctorate at the University of Cambridge, UK, on the topic "The Formation of Opinion and the Communication Network in London 1637-c. 1645"

1987 State Examination in English and History at the University of Freiburg

1981-1987 Studies at the Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg and Cambridge

Scholarships:

1991 Research grants from the German Historical Institute, London, Archbishop Cranmer Fund, Cambridge and Prince Consort and Thirlwall Fund, Cambridge towards the completion of my PhD.

1984-90 Funding for my studies and doctorate from the Evangelische Studienwerk Villigst

Speaker/leadership functions:

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Maritime Museum (DSM), Leibniz Institute of History (since 2025)
• Head of the research project Wissenschaftsraum Provenienz- und Sammlungsforschung Digital(ProSaDi) funded by zukunft.niedersachsen (2024-2028)
• Head of the research project DiViAS (digitisation, visualisation and analysis of collection items) funded by zukunft.niedersachsen (2023-2026)
• (Chair of the jury for the Carl von Ossietzky Prize of the City of Oldenburg (academic appointment January 2022)
• Corresponding member of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 2019)
• Chair of the Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute London of the Max Weber Foundation (November 2019 to May 2022)
• Head of the international research project Prize Papers (2018-2038) funded by the Akademieunion (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
• Dean of the FK IV (April 2019-March 2025)
• Deputy spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group 1608/2 Self-Formations. Practices of subjectivation from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective (since 2011, second approval phase 2015-2021)
• Head of the BKM-funded project Freiheitsraum Reformation (2012-2017)
• Member and spokesperson of the Centre for University Didactics at the CvO University of Oldenburg (until 2012)

Academic appointments to academic and non-academic committees:

• Presidential Board of the German Protestant Church Congress (2015-2021)
• Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute London of the Max Weber Foundation (November 2014 to May 2022)
• Member of the committee of the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony (May 2013-May 2020)
• Jury of the Carl von Ossietzky Prize of the City of Oldenburg (since 2022)
• Advisory board of the Oldenburg State Library
• Corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Reviewer activity

• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Swiss National Fund

University committees:

• Dean of School IV (April 2019-March 2025)
• Vice Dean in the Dean's Office of School IV (2011-2015 & 2017-2019)
• Director of the Institute of History (2013-2014 &2016-2017)
• Faculty Council of School IV (2005-2007 & 2013-2017)

Liaison lecturer:

The Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst is the scholarship organisation of the Protestant churches in Germany. It currently supports around 1000 students and more than 250 doctoral candidates from all disciplines at universities and universities of applied sciences. They receive a monthly scholarship and access to a comprehensive educational programme.

A core element of the Villigst scholarship programme is the support and counselling of scholarship holders in study-related decisions or personal issues. Each scholarship holder is supervised by a director of studies from the Evangelisches Studienwerk.

At the universities, liaison lecturers offer counselling and support and are often in close contact with the conventions and the Protestant Academic Foundation.

This ensures that students receive individualised support.

As a liaison lecturer for the Studienwerk at the University of Oldenburg, I am the contact person for students who already have a scholarship from the Studienwerk and for anyone else who is interested. You are welcome to visit me during my office hours or make an appointment.

Research focus:

Global microhistory, diasporas, practices of religious coexistence, state formation and legitimation of power, emergence of the public sphere, microhistory, historical praxeology, subjectivation research

Research projects:

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Books:

• Governed by Opinion. Politics, Religion and the Dynamica of Communication in Stuart London 1637-1645, ed. by Dagmar Freist, Bloomsbury Academic, 2nd ed., London 2021.
• Transcultural Multiple Belongings as a Cultural-Historical Phenomenon. Spaces - Materialities - Memoriesed. by Dagmar Freist, Sabine Kyora, Melanie Unseld. transcript Bielefeld 2019 (Series Practices of Subjectivation, 13).
• Faith - Love - Discord. Religiously and denominationally mixed marriages in Germany in the early modern period. Oldenbourg Verlag: Munich 2017, (bibliothek altes Reich, 14)
• Connecting Worlds and People. Diasporas as Translocal Societies, ed. by Dagmar Freist and Susanne Lachenicht, Routledge 2017.
• Discourses - Bodies - Artefacts. Historical Praxeology in Early Modern Research, ed. by Dagmar Freist, transcript: Bielefeld: 2014 (Practices of Subjectivation series)
• Behind the Horizon 2: Distinction and Projection of Rural Upper Classes in Europe, 17th-19th Century, ed. by Dagmar Freist and Frank Schmekel, Aschendorff Verlag: Münster 2013.
• Self-formations Social and cultural practices of subjectivation, ed. by Thomas Alkemeyer, Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist (eds.), transcript Verlag: Bielefeld 2013 (Practices of Subjectivation series)
• Living with Religious Diversity in Early-modern Europe, ed. by Scott Dixon, Dagmar Freist, Mark Greengrass, Ashgate: Farnham 2009 ( = St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
• Flashes of inspiration. Researchers, inventors and scholars in the Oldenburg regionedited by Dagmar Freist and Wolfgang Erich Müller, Isensee Verlag: Oldenburg 2009.
• Absolutism. Controversies about historyed. by Andreas Bauerkämper, Edgar Wolfrum, Peter Steinbach, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2008.
• History as a science and as an academic appointment, ed. by Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist, Hilke Günther-Arndt, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2008
• History Sources. Bridging the gap between historical science and history didactics. Festschrift for Hilke Günther-Arndt, edited by Gunilla Busse, Dagmar Freist and Dietmar von Reeken, Berlin 2008.
• State-building as a cultural process. Strukturwandel und Legitimation von Herrschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. by Ronald G. Asch and Dagmar Freist, Böhlau Verlag: Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2005, 442 pp.
• Governed by Opinion. Politics, Religion and the Dynamics of Communication in Stuart London 1637-1645, Tauris: London 1997, 383 p.
• Snow White in a Glass Coffin? Women in the Museum, together with Cornelia Brink and others, Geschichtswerkstatt 27 (1994)
• Jews. Interior Views of Past Lifeworlds, together with Peter Fäßler and others, Geschichtswerkstatt 15 (1988)

Articles:

• Together with Lucas Haasis. "The Prize Papers. Product and testimony of global confrontations, colonialism and entanglements in the early modern period (1652-1815)." Globalgeschichte / Global History1 (2023): 77-106.
• The Prize Papers. Uncurated Histories of Global Scope, in: The Sea. Maritime Worlds in the Early Modern Period, ed. by Peter Burschel and Sünne Jutercenka. Bölau Verlag: Weimar/Cologne/Vienna 2021, 267-280.
• Afterword: memory practices and global Protestantism, in: Remembering the Reformation Ed. by Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Karis Riley, Alexandra Walsham. Routledge: London / New York 2020, 286-299.
• The Prize Papers. Uncurated Histories of Global Scope, in: The Sea. Maritime Worlds in the Early Modern Period, ed. by Peter Burschel and Sünne Jutercenka. Bölau Verlag: Weimar/Cologne/Vienna 2020 (to be published August 2020).
• Expansion, space, and people, in: Interpreting Early Modern Europe, ed. C. Scott Dixon / Beat Kümin. Routledge: London / New York 2020, 268-296.
• Where were you born and where have you lived? Multiple Belongings and Self-Localisation Using the Example of the Moravian World Community in the 18th Century, in: Transcultural Multiple Belongings as a Cultural-Historical Phenomenon. Spaces - Materialities - Memories, ed. by Dagmar Freist, Sabine Kyora, Melanie Unseld. transcript Bielefeld 2019 (Series Practices of Subjectivation, 13), pp. 83-101.
• A Global Microhistory of the early modern period. Social sites and the interconnectedness of human lives, in: QUADERNI STORICI 155 / a. LII, n. 2, agosto 2017, pp. 537-555.
• A very warm Surinam kiss: Staying connected, getting engaged - interlacing social sites of the Moravian Diaspora, in: Connecting Worlds and People. Early modern Diasporas, ed. by Dagmar Freist, Susanne Lachenicht. Routledge: London 2017, pp. 62-80.
• Religion and Belief, in: A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. by Peter McNeil. Bloomsbury: London 2017, pp. 87-104 (A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion, 6 vols. Ed. By Susan Vincent)
• "The settlement of Trade at Harburg". Visions of an entrepreneur of himself in the 18th century, in: Ad laudem et gloriam. Festschrift für Rudolf Holbach, ed. by Sarah Neumann et al. Verlag für Geschichte und Kultur: Trier 2016, pp. 17-32.
• Discourses - bodies - artefacts. Historical praxeology in early modern research - an approach, in: Discourses - Bodies - Artefacts. Historical praxeology in early modern research, edited by Dagmar Freist. transcript: Bielefeld 2015 (Practices of Subjectivation series, vol. 4), pp. 9-30.
• "I send you something strange and not familiar". Briefpraktiken als Vergewisserungsstrategie zwischen Raum und Zeit im Kolonialgefüge der Frühen Neuzeit, in: Diskurse - Körper - Artefakte. Historical praxeology in early modern research, ed. by Dagmar Freist. transcript: Bielefeld 2015 (Practices of Subjectivation series, vol. 4), pp. 373-404.
• Material Practices in the Early Modern Period - An Introduction, in: Practices of the Early Modern Period. Actors-Actions-Artefacts, ed. by Arndt Brendecke. Böhlau: Weimar/Cologne/Vienna 2015, pp. 267-274.
• Historical praxeology as micro-history, in: Practices of the Early Modern Period. Actors-Actions-Artefacts, ed. by Arndt Brendecke. Böhlau: Weimar/Cologne/Vienna 2015, pp. 62-77.
• Between Conscience and Coercion: Mixed Marriages, Church, Secular Authority, and Family, in: Mary Lindemann, David Luebke (ed.), Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Early Modern Germany, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books 2014, 185-212.
• "I want to create an image of myself for you" - Practices of self-education in the field of tension between class norms and social dynamics. In: Alkemeyer, Thomas/Budde, Gunilla/Freist, Dagmar (eds.): Selbst-Bildungen. Social and cultural practices of subjectivation. Bielefeld 2013, pp. 151-174.
• Introduction with Thomas Alkemeyer and Gunilla Budde, in: Alkemeyer, Thomas/Budde, Gunilla/Freist, Dagmar (eds.): Selbst-Bildungen. Social and cultural practices of subjectivation. Bielefeld 2013, pp.
• Lost in time and space? Glocal memoryscapes in the early modern world, in: Memory before modernity. Practices of memory in early modern Europe, ed. Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller and Jasper van der Steen, Brill Publishers: Leiden 2013, 203-221
• Uneasy trust relations and cross-cultural encounters on trial - migrants in early modern Europe, in: Agents of Transculturation: Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens. Ed. Sebastian Jobs and Gesa Mackenthun. Waxmann: Münster, 2013, pp.
• Dress to impress: Fashion als materielle Praktik sozialer Distinktion in der ländlichen Oberschicht Nordwestdeutschlands, in: Hinter dem Horizont 2: Distinktion und Projektion ländlicher Oberschichten in Europa, 17.-19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Dagmar Freist and Frank Schmekel, Aschendorff Verlag: Münster 201, pp. 91-103
• Introduction together with Frank Schmekel, in: Hinter dem Horizont 2: Distinktion und Projektion ländlicher Oberschichten in Europa, 17th-19th century, ed. by Dagmar Freist and Frank Schmekel, Aschendorff Verlag: Münster 2013, pp.
• Freist, Dagmar: The "Dutch Century", in: European History Online (EGO), published by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2012-04-26. URL: www.ieg-ego.eu/freistd-2012-de URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-2012042617 [YYYY-MM-DD].
• Freist, Dagmar: The "Dutch Century", in: European History Online (EGO), published by the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2012-10-17. URL: www.ieg-ego.eu/freistd-2012-en URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-2012101701 [YYYY-MM-DD].
• Religious certainties and dangers for the "salvation of souls" - Religious-political sensitivities in Electoral Saxony since the conversion of Augustus the Strong to Catholicism, in: Rosseaux, Ulrich/Poppe, Gerhard (eds.), Konfession und Konflikt. Religious pluralisation in Saxony in the 18th and 19th centuries, Münster 2012. p. 35-53
• Bertha Ramsauer and the self-education of man, in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch
  Volume 112, 2012, pp. 133-150.
• Freist, Dagmar: "The Staple of newes". Räume, Medien und die Verfügbarkeit von Wissen im frühneuzeitlichen London, in: Gerd Schwerhoff (ed.): Stadt und Öffentlichkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit, Cologne et al. 2011, pp. 97-123 ( = Städteforschung. Publications of the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster, ed. by Werner Freitag, vol. 83)
• Freist, Dagmar: Popery in Perfection: The Experience of Catholicism - Henrietta Maria between private practice and public discourse, in: Michael Braddick, David Smith (ed.), The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain: essays presented to John Morrill to mark his ^65th birthday, Cambridge C.U.P 2011, pp. 33-51
• Freist, Dagmar: Southern Dutch Calvinist Refugees in Europe since the Early Modern Period, in: Klaus J. Bade/Pieter C. Emmer/Leo Lucassen/Jochen Oltmer (eds). The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities. From the 17th Century to the Present, Cambridge C.U.P 2011, pp. 319-325
• Foundations of Modern Forms of Political Order in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. In: Ulrich Baumgärtner, Herbert Rogger, Wolf Weigand (eds.): Horizonte 12. Geschichte Gymnasium Bayern, Braunschweig 2010, pp. 52-105.
• Crossing Religious Borders: The Experience of Religious Difference and its Impact on Mixed Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Germany. In: Scott Dixon, Dagmar Freist, Mark Greengrass (eds.): Living with Religious Diversity in Early Modern Europe, Farnham 2009, pp. 203-224.
• Networks and cultural transfer in the early modern period, in: North, Michael (ed.): Kultureller Austausch. Bilanz und Perspektiven der Frühneuzeitforschung, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2009, pp.291-296.
• Migration and trade. Economic links in north-west Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte Bd 81, 2009, pp. 225-250
• Berta Ramsauer. In: Anne G. Kosfeld (ed.): Von der Gelehrtenstube in den Hörsaal - Oldenburger Wissenschaftlerinnen im Wandel der Zeit. Accompanying volume to the exhibition, Oldenburg 2009, pp. 126-171.
• Berta Ramsauer, in: Flashes of inspiration. Forscher, Erfinder und Gelehrte im Oldenburger Land ed. by Dagmar Freist and Wolfgang Erich Müller, Oldenburg 2009, pp. 92-97.
• Together with Gunilla Budde, Verfahren, Methoden, Praktiken. In: Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist, Hilke Günther-Arndt (eds.): Geschichte als Wissenschaft und als Beruf, Berlin 2008, pp. 158-177.
• The history of historiography. In: Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist, Hilke Günther-Arndt (eds.): Geschichte als Wissenschaft und als Beruf, Berlin 2008, pp. 178-196.
• Age and denomination. On the problem of maturity in matters of religion. In: Arndt Brendecke, Ralf-Peter Fuchs, Edith Koller (eds.): Die Autorität der Zeit in der Frühen Neuzeit. Münster etc. 2007 (Pluralisation and Authority in the Early Modern Period 8), pp. 47-70.
• Law and legal practice in the Age of Enlightenment using the example of the baptism of Jewish children, in: Andreas Gotzmann, Stefan Wendehorst (eds.), Juden im Recht. New approaches to the legal history of the Jews in the Old Kingdom, ZHF Beiheft 39 (2007), pp. 109-137
• Child conversions in the early modern period. In: Ute Lotz-Heumann, Jan-Friedrich Missfelder, Matthias Pohlig (eds.): Konversion und Konfession in der Frühen Neuzeit ( = Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte, 205), Gütersloh 2007, 393-429 .
• Southern Dutch Calvinist Refugees in Europe since the Early Modern Period, in: Migration - Integration - Minorities since the 17th Century: A European Encyclopaedia, ed. by Klaus Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer, Paderborn 2007, pp. 1019-1029.
• Representations and Appropriation of Religious Difference in a Biconfessional Territory in ^17th and^18th-century Germany. In: Representing Religious Pluralisation in Early modern Europe. Edited by Andreas Höfele, Enno Ruge, Gabriele Schmidt, Münster LIT Verlag, 2007, pp. 143-161.
• Public houses as centres of the early modern public sphere: London in the 17th century, in: Kommunikation und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit. Supplement to the Historische Zeitschrift, ed. by Johannes Burkhardt, Munich 2005, pp. 201-224
• The case of Albini - legal disputes over paternal authority in confessionally mixed marriages, in: In eigener Sache. Frauen vor den höchsten Gerichten des Alten Reiches, ed. by Siegrid Westphal. Cologne/Vienna 2005, pp. 245-270.
• Religious Violence in early modern Germany, in: Leidschrift, jaargang 20, nummer 1, April 2005, pp. 141-152.
• Introduction: State-building, local processes of rule and cultural change in the early modern period, in: Staatsbildung als kultureller Prozess. Strukturwandel und Legitimation von Herrschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. by Ronald G. Asch and Dagmar Freist, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2005, pp. 1-47
• Public sphere and legitimisation of rule in the early modern period: Germany and England in comparison, in: Staatsbildung als kultureller Prozess. Structural Change and the Legitimisation of Rule in the Early Modern Period, ed. by Ronald G. Asch and Dagmar Freist, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2005, pp. 322-351
• Forced Conversion of Jewish Children in the Electoral Palatinate in the 18th Century - On the Question of Tolerance in the Age of Enlightenment, in: Horst Lademacher (ed.): Toleranz in der deutschen und niederländischen Gesellschaft 16.-19. Jhd. ( = Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur Nordwesteuropas, 2), Münster et al. 2004, pp. 400-421.
• Kilvert, Richard (c. 1588-1650), in: New DNB vol 31, Oxford 2004, pp. 578-579.
• Abell, William (c.1584-1655), in: New DNB vol 1, Oxford 2004, pp. 71-72.
• One Body-Two Confessions: Mixed Marriages in Germany, in: Gender in Early Modern German History ( = Past and Present Publications), ed. by Ulinka Rublack, Cambridge 2002, pp. 275-305.
• Between Freedom of Faith and Compulsion of Conscience: Imperial Law and the Treatment of Mixed Marriages after 1648, in: Der Frieden - Rekonstruktion einer Europäischen Vision. 2 vols. Vol. 2: Peace and War in the Early Modern Period. Die europäische Staatenordnung und die außereuropäische Welt, ed. by Ronald G. Asch et al. Munich 2001, pp. 294-322.
• Gender History: Norms and Social Practice, in: Oldenbourg Textbook of History. Vol. 1: Early Modern Times, ed. by Anette Völker-Rasor. Munich 2000, 183-202.
• Religious Difference and the Experience of Widowhood in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Germany, in: Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. by Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner, London 1999, pp. 164-178.
• Reform of the Mind - Reform of the Body Politic. Gender Relations and Reform Policies in late Twentieth Century Britain, in: Political Reform in Britain, 1886-1996. Themes, Ideas , Policies, ed. by Ulrike Jordan and Wolfram Kaiser, Bochum 1997 (German Association for the Study of British History and Politics, 37), pp. 151-167.
• Journals on historical women's studies. An international comparison, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 22/1 (1996), pp. 97-117.
• The King's Crown is the Whore of Babylon. Politics, Gender and Communication in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England, in: Gender & History 7/3 (1995), Special Issue: Presentations of the Self in Early Modern England, ed. by Amy Louise Erickson and Ross Balzaretti, pp. 457-481.
• Alltagsgeschichte der Juden: In Search of New Approaches to Jewish History, in: German History 7/2 (1989), pp. 248-253.