Prof. Dr. Birgit Münch

In her research project, Birgit Ulrike Münch explores prostitution as a central field of negotiation for urban modes of female dependency in the early modern period. The aim of the project is to re-adjust the network of different asymmetrical dependencies in the field of female occupations, in particular female prostitution, in Amsterdam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which were essentially shaped by the role of the metropolis in Dutch colonialism. The visualized forms of urban female dependency between prostitution, slavery, and domestic service are to be critically analyzed, as well as the allegedly self-determined work in the brothels. A major desideratum is research on prostitutes from the Amsterdam Black and Asian communities of formerly enslaved persons. How are the forms of dependency of, at least formally, no longer enslaved persons in Amsterdam to be defined? How does the servant relationship shape up for women from Amsterdam, from the colonies, for Black Jewish women, and for daughters of slaveholders?

1 book, 16 (co-)edited volumes, 67 academic articles,12 book reviews. 84 international and national lectures and presentations, 25 (co)-organized workshops and conferences, 11 ongoing doctorate supervisions, 12 completed doctorates as second supervisor; 19 Master and 34 Bachelor theses as supervisor/first reviewer.

2016
Habilitation, University of Trier (Germany), Venia legendi in Art History

2002–2007
Ph.D. in Art History, LMU Munich and University of Trier (summa cum laude), Germany

2003
M.A. in Art History, Medieval and Early Modern History, FU Berlin, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Paris IV-La Sorbonne, France

since 2021
Vice Rector for International Affairs

since 2019
Co-Director of CERC (Centre Ernst Robert Curtius), Bonn University

since 2016
Professor for Art History, University of Bonn, Germany

2018–2020
Director of the Department of Art History

2016 
Substitute Professor, Chair for Medieval and Early Modern Art History,Technical University Dresden, Germany

2015
Research Fellow, Oxford University, Oriel College, (Invitation by Prof. Dr. Lyndal Roper, Regius Chair, History Department)

2010–2015 
Lecturer and Academic councilor, Trier University, Germany (including 18 months of parental leave)

2005–2010
Research Assistant, Trier University, Germany

2004–2005
Research Assistant, Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation, Munich, Germany

2003–2004
Research Assistant, Heidelberg University, Germany t.

2020
Senior Global Grant, University of St Andrews, joint nomination History and Art History

2008
Award International Wolfgang-Ratjen-Price (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich) for early career research in the field of graphic arts

2008
Dissertation Award, Trier University

since 2020
Co-Director: Centre Ernst Robert Curtius (CERC), Bonn University, Germany
since 2019
Scientific Advisory Board Transdisciplinary Research Area 5, University of Excellence Strategy, Bonn University, Germany

since 2009
Board Member: Johannisburger Symposia for Art and Architecture

since 2007
Member of the Executive Board: ANKK (Association for Netherlandish Art and Cultural History), Member of  HNA, RSA, DVfK

since 2013
Member of the Executive Committee of the US-American Association FNA for Early Modern German Studies

2012–2019
Co-Founder and Board Member: Kunsthistorisches Forum Irsee, Organization of annual meetings and publications (7 volumes) on Artist and Society

2008–2016
Member of the Historisch Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum (HKFZ) Trier, funded by the State Excellence Initiative Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier University, Germany

since 2021
Member Executive committee of the doctoral studies course AISTHESIS (Universities of Bern, Vienna, Stuttgart, Regensburg and Bonn)

since 2020
Member Scientific Advisory Board Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg

since 2020
 Co-Editor of Journal für Kunstgeschichte

since 2020
Member of the editorial committee of Art History. The Open Peer Reviewed Journal

since 2016
Referee for various research institutions (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (FWO), Schweizer Nationalfond (SNF), Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation)

2018–2020
Research and Exhibition Project: Peter Paul Rubens and the Baroque in the North (Diocesan Museum Paderborn), Scientific board and catalogue author