Mihai Dragnea

Mihai Dragnea

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USN Handelshøyskolen
Institutt for økonomi, historie og samfunnsvitenskap
Campus Vestfold (A1-2)
Mihai Dragnea is the president of the Balkan History Association and the editor of Hiperboreea, the journal affiliated to the association. His interests and collaboration include cultural, social and political relations between Germans, Scandinavians and Wends during the High Middle Ages, Viking Age, early Slavic ethnicity and state formation, and identity and conflict in the Balkans. E-mail: mihaidragnea2018@gmail.com

Ansvarsområder

Publishing studies, attending international conferences and giving occasional lectures.

Kompetanse

Mihai's areas of research include the medieval Baltic, focusing on conversion, missionary strategy, Christian identity, hagiography, canon law, crusading, Christian kingship, otherness, and the religious beliefs and ritual practices of the Wends.

CV

Degrees:

2018: PhD in Medieval Studies (EQF level 8), School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy (SCOSAAR), “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest

2013: Interdisciplinary MA in Medieval studies (EQF level 7), Faculty of History; Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, University of Bucharest

2011: BA in History (EQF level 6), Faculty of History, University of Bucharest

Research experience:

July-August 2021: Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. The project "German-Danish Colonization on Rügen during the second half of the twelfth century" was implemented through a grant offered by the Lozovan Foundation in Copenhagen.

February – June 2021: Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Comenius University in Bratislava. The project "Hippomancy in the Baltic Region: Desacralization of the Pomeranian Sacred Horses in the Twelfth Century" was implemented through the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic for the Support of Mobility of Students, PhD Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, managed by SAIA and funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

October 2019, Feb. 2020, June-July 2021. Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The scholarship was supported by the EU funded project “Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies – ReIReS” (Scholarships for Transnational Access), grant agreement ID: 730895. Titles of the projects: “Linguistic Interactions Between Germans and Wends in the Second Half of the Tenth Century”; “Crusade and Colonization in the Wendish Territory during the Twelfth Century”; "Constructions of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery: The Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England".

2018-2019: Short-term postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of History and Archeology (University of Tartu), funded by the Romanian Cultural Institute - 'Lucian Blaga' Fellowship, no.7177 / 29.05.2018. Title of the project: “How to Justify a Crusade. The Conquest of the Region East of the Elbe and New Crusade Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century”.

2015: Short-term research mobility for PhD at the Institute of Medieval Studies from the School of History, University of Leeds (UK)

2014-2015: Scholarship for Doctoral studies "MINERVA - Cooperare for elite career in doctoral and postdoctoral research", contract: POSDRU/159/1.5/S/ 137832, "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History, Bucharest, Romanian Academy.

Membership in academic and professional bodies and other activities:

Series Editor for "South-East European History" (Peter Lang)

Series Editor for "Christianity and Conversion in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, c. 800-1600" (Peter Lang)

Contributor to the International Medieval Bibliography and the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance, published by Brepols

Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies (since 2020), published by the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies; Res novae (since 2022), published by the Catholic Institute in Ljubljana, Croatica Christiana Periodica (since 2022), published by the Institute of Church History, Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, International Journal of Divination and Prognostication (since 2022), published by Brill in close cooperation with the Society for the Critical Study of Divination.

Member of the Romanian Association of Slavic Studies (from 2016), Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (from 2019), Institute for National and International Security (from 2021), Center of Urban History, University of Hradec Králové ( from 2021), Waldemar Ceran Research Center for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, University of Łódź (from 2022).

Publikasjoner

Degrees:

2018: PhD in Medieval Studies (EQF level 8), School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy (SCOSAAR), “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest

2013: Interdisciplinary MA in Medieval studies (EQF level 7), Faculty of History; Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures, University of Bucharest

2011: BA in History (EQF level 6), Faculty of History, University of Bucharest

Research experience:

 

2023-2024. Long-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Department of Slovak History, Comenius University Bratislava. The project “Conquest, Holy War, and Crusade in the so-called Magdeburg Letter of 1108” was implemented through the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic for the Support of Mobility of Students, PhD Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, managed by SAIA and funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

2023. Short-term postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Church History, Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, funded by the Romanian Cultural Institute (‘Lucian Blaga’ Fellowship). Title of the project: “Emotional Memory and Religious Identity in the Saxon Marches (10th-11th centuries)”.

2023. Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Department of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. The project “Cistercian abbeys in Pomerania and their impact on colonization in the second half of the twelfth century” was implemented through a grant offered by the Eugen Lozovan Foundation in Copenhagen.

2021: Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. The project “German-Danish Colonization on Rügen during the second half of the twelfth century” was implemented through a grant offered by the Lozovan Foundation in Copenhagen.

2021: Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Comenius University Bratislava. The project “Hippomancy in the Baltic Region: Desacralization of the Pomeranian Sacred Horses in the Twelfth Century” was implemented through the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic for the Support of Mobility of Students, PhD Students, University Teachers, Researchers and Artists, managed by SAIA and funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

2019, Feb. 2020, 2021. Short-term postdoctoral scholarship at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The scholarship was supported by the EU funded project “Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies – ReIReS” (Scholarships for Transnational Access), grant agreement ID: 730895. Titles of the projects: “Linguistic Interactions Between Germans and Wends in the Second Half of the Tenth Century”; “Crusade and Colonization in the Wendish Territory during the Twelfth Century”; “Constructions of Christian Identity in the Northern Periphery: The Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England”.

2018-2019: Short-term postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of History and Archeology (University of Tartu), funded by the Romanian Cultural Institute - 'Lucian Blaga' Fellowship, no.7177 / 29.05.2018. Title of the project: “How to Justify a Crusade. The Conquest of the Region East of the Elbe and New Crusade Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century”.

2015: Short-term research mobility for PhD at the Institute of Medieval Studies from the School of History, University of Leeds (UK)

2014-2015: Scholarship for Doctoral studies "MINERVA - Cooperare for elite career in doctoral and postdoctoral research", contract: POSDRU/159/1.5/S/ 137832, "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History, Bucharest, Romanian Academy.

Membership in academic and professional bodies and other activities:

Series Editor for "South-East European History" (Peter Lang)

Series Editor for "Christianity and Conversion in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, c. 800-1600" (Peter Lang)

Contributor to the International Medieval Bibliography and the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance, published by Brepols

Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies (since 2020), published by the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies; Res novae (since 2022), published by the Catholic Institute in Ljubljana, Croatica Christiana Periodica (since 2022), published by the Institute of Church History, Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, International Journal of Divination and Prognostication (since 2022), published by Brill in close cooperation with the Society for the Critical Study of Divination.

Member of the Romanian Association of Slavic Studies (from 2016), Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (from 2019), Institute for National and International Security (from 2021), Centre of Urban History, University of Hradec Králové (from 2021), Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, University of Łódź (from 2022).