PD Dr. Dorothea Heuschert-Laage

Dorothea Heuschert-Laage works on different forms of dependency in Mongolian societies and approaches this topic from a legal history perspective. Her current project, which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, is entitled "Law, Property, and Gender in Qing dynasty Mongolia (1636-1911) on the basis of court records from Qanggin-banner (Inner Mongolia, China)."

She is especially interested in the interlinking of the law of the Qing state (1636–1911) with practices and normative knowledge at the local level. How did the integration of Mongols into the Qing state transform or reinforce dependency relations and how was this reflected in the terminology? Dorothea Heuschert-Laage investigates these questions using indigenous Mongolian legal texts as well as records of legal cases from Qing dynasty Mongolian archives.

1 monograph, more than 20 articles

2021
Habilitation, University of Bonn, Venia legendi in Mongolian Studies

1993–1997
Ph.D. in Mongolian Studies, University of Bonn and Harvard University (USA)

1985–1993
M.A. in Sinology, Mongolian Studies and Medieval History, University of Bonn and Inner Mongolia University (China)

since 2021
TRA 5: Past Worlds and Modern Questions. Cultures Across Time and Space, University of Bonn

2014–2017
Research project (SNF): "Mongolian Perceptions of the World in Times of Emerging Global Networks: The Ordos Region in the Last Decades of the Qing Empire," Institute for the Science of Religion and Central Asian Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland

2011–13
Research project MPI: "Dealing with Nationalities in Eurasia. How Russian and Chinese Agencies Managed Ethnic Diversity in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries," Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale

1997–1998
Cataloguing Manchu manuscripts and woodprints preserved at the University Library of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Ferdinand Verbiest Institute

1997–1998
Cataloguing Manchu manuscripts and woodprints preserved at the University Library of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Ferdinand Verbiest Institute

2024–2025
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2022–2023
Research scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation

1997
Research Award of the Societas Uralo-Altaica e.V.

1995–1996
Junior Scholar Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

1995
Graduate Scholarship of North Rhine-Westphalia

1993–1994
German Academic Exchange Service, one-year-grant for doctoral candidates

1987–1989
German Academic Exchange Service, two-year-grant for M.A. candidates1997
Research Award of the Societas Uralo-Altaica e.V.

1995–1996
Junior Scholar Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

1995
Graduate Scholarship of North Rhine-Westphalia

1993–1994
German Academic Exchange Service, one-year-grant for doctoral candidates

1987–1989
German Academic Exchange Service, two-year-grant for M.A. candidates