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​Lecturer

 

Contact aaron.vanides@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de +49 (0)6221-54-2455 Historisches Seminar 3rd floor, room 222 Grabengasse 3-5 69117 Heidelberg

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Office Hours

Monday 10am – 11:30am and by appointment (registration)

 

 

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Education

 

2018	Ph.D.	Yale University
2014	M.Phil.	Yale University
2013	M.A.	Yale University
2010	A.B.	University of Chicago

 

 

Employment

 

2020-	Lecturer (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
2019-2020	Research Assistant of Medieval History and the Auxiliary Sciences of History Karl-Franzens-University of Graz
2014	Associate in Teaching Yale University
2012-2014	Head Digital Assistant, „Digitally Enabled Scholarship and Medieval Manuscripts” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ref. 31200642
2012-2013	Teaching Fellow Yale University
2011-2015	Research Assistant of Anders Winroth Yale University
2008-2009	DAAD Scholar Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen
2007	Lab Assistant, Rosenberger Collection of Judaica University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

 

 

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Aaron Vanides (born 1988 in Palo Alto, California) studied German, Medieval Studies, and the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago as well as at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen as a DAAD undergraduate scholarship recipient. After completing his undergraduate degree he began graduate work at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in its interdisciplinary Program for Medieval Studies with a dissertation on “The Ends of Authority at the Council of Constance, 1414-1418” advised by Anders Winroth; this forms the basis of his current book project on the Council of Constance and the history of speech in the later Middle Ages. His research interests revolve around cultural history broadly construed, the history of rhetoric and the book, libraries, church councils as well as in paleography and codicology. He also has an interest in the early development of the historical disciplines in North America.

After receiving his doctorate, he took up a position as Assistant for Medieval History and the Auxiliary Sciences of History at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and took up his current post as Akademischer Rat auf Zeit and Assistant for Romedio Schmitz-Esser at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in October 2020. In addition to his teaching and research, he worked from 2011 to 2015 as a research assistant in the long-term project of producing a critical edition of the Decretum Gratiani (one of the foundations of modern jurisprudence), which will eventually be published in the Monumenta luris Canonici through the Vatican. In a related context he lead a group of research assistants as Head Digital Assistant in a collaborative project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on "Digitally Enabled Scholarship with Medieval Manuscripts". Aaron Vanides is also active as a translatro and for the Yale University Press he took part in the first translation of the wok of Kurt Flasch in to English. Additional study and research trips has brought him to Stanford University, the Free University Berlin, the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, the Fróðskaparsetur Føroya (University of the Faroe Islands), as well as the Bavarian State Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and other manuscript and archival collections in Europe and North America.

 

 

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Selected publications

 

• “Emperor as Audience: Speech and Authority under Sigismund of Luxemburg” (in Vorbereitung) 
• “The Discovery of Poggio Bracciolini” (in Vorbereitung) 
• Mit Anders Winroth et al. “Causa 1” in Decretum Gratiani. Monumenta Iuris CanoniciSerie B, Corpus Collectionum (laufende Langzeitedition)  
• Rezension von Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521 von Duncan Hardy, Speculum 95, Nr. 2 (2020): 565-57 
• Kurt Flasch, Meister Eckhart: Philosopher of Christianity. Trans. Anne Schindel and Aaron Vanides. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
• “Disabilities? Gifts?” U-Access: A Newsletter about Disability Issues at the University of Chicago 4, Nr. 2 (2008)