Since August 2024, I have been working as a research assistant on a third-party-funded project at the chair of Medieval History held by Prof. Dr Almut Höfert at the University of Oldenburg.
The project‘gentes and nationes in the Roman-German Empire’ centres its research on written sources of humanist thought in the Roman-German Empire of the 15th and 16th centuries. Specifically, the aim is to examine humanist conceptions of collective formations with regard to their gendered connotations. The sources drawn upon include both descriptions of the world and descriptions of countries and cities by German humanists. Thus, urban and municipal community designations, as well as terms for gentes and nationes, form the subject of this doctoral project, which is oriented towards gender history.

Lectures:

• (forthcoming: 8 July 2026: Addressing Gender: Gender Marking of Civic, Ethnic, and National Collectives in German Cosmographic and Humanist Writings, 15th–16th Centuries)
  (IMC Leeds 2026)
• 19 March 2026: City, Country, World through the Eyes of the Humanists. Reflections on Difference, Hierarchy and the Gender Coding of Collectives
  (Conference at the University of Oldenburg)
• 22 November 2024: Medicine, Midwifery and Gender in the German-speaking World of the Late Middle Ages
  (MOV Colloquium, University of Vechta)

Articles:

• Kampelmann, Laura: ‘Health in Mind – Reflections on the Medieval Significance of the Sense of Touch and Feeling as Reflected in Humoral Pathological Systems of Knowledge’ (manuscript in preparation, expected publication spring 2027)

Reviews:

• Kampelmann, Laura: Review of ‘Katherine Weikert/Elena Woodacre (eds.): Medieval Intersections. Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages, New York 2021”, in: traverse 2026/1, 2026, pp. 208–210.

Committee work:

• Since 2025: Deputy representative for mid-level academic staff at the Institute of History (CvO, University of Oldenburg)

Commitment & memberships:

• Since 2024: Member of the ZFG (Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies) at the CvO University of Oldenburg
• Since 2025: Involvement in the implementation of a project as part of the ‘Frauenorte Niedersachsen’ initiative

• since 08/2024: Research assistant at the Chair of Medieval History of Prof Dr Almut Höfert at the University of Oldenburg
• 05/2022-06/2024: Part-time teacher in the state service of Lower Saxony at the BBS Technik Cloppenburg
• 10/2021-04/2024: Master of Education, grammar school teaching degree for the subjects History and English at the University of Oldenburg
• 10/2018-02/2022: Bachelor of Arts, History and English/American Studies at the University of Oldenburg

• Gender history
• Social history
• Late Medieval Urban History
• Humanism research
• History of medicine
• History of the body