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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of International Studies

Teaching areas

Historical-anthropology, Cultural history, Gender history, early modern Europe/modern Middle East

Research areas

Early modern Europe: politics, religion, and gender Modern Middle East: gender history

Education

PhD: European University Institute, Florence, Italy. 2006. MA: Copenhagen University, Denmark. 1999. BA:Copenhagen University, Denmark. 1994.

Professional experience

Associate Professor of History, Department of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, UAE. 2014-present.

Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary and International Gender Studies Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. 2011. See http://www.sowi.rub.de/jahoda/

Assistant Professor of History, Department of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, UAE. 2007-2014.

Research Fellow, Danish Rector’s Conference, Ministry of Education, Denmark Three-year fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. 2000-2003.

Visiting Lecturer in History, School of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 1997-1998.

Memberships

Contact

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Dr. Pernille Arenfeldt

Associate Professor

PhD in History, European University Institute, Italy

Pernille Arenfeldt's teaching and research interests are centered on women and gender in early modern Europe and in the modern Middle East. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws extensively on anthropological and sociological methodologies; this approach is also reflected in her teaching. She has held research fellowships in Denmark, Germany and Italy, and was selected for the Marie-Jahoda Visiting Chair in International Gender Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Publications

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "‘Whispers in the Women’s Majlis’. Feministische Spuren in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten." In Faltenwürfe der Geschichte. Festschrift für Regina Schulte, edited by Sandra Maβ & Xenia von Tippelskirch, 436-452. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2014.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "‘The … Queen has … Sent Nine … Frisian Cows …’. Gender and Courtly Practices in Sixteenth-Century Germany." Musik-Kultur-Gender: Der Hof. Ort kulturellen Handelns von Frauen in der Frühen Neuzeit, edited by Susanne Rode Breymann and Antje Tumat. Boehlau Verlag: Vienna and Cologne 12, no. 1 (2013): 116-131. url: http://www.boehlau-verlag.com/Musik_Kultur_Gender.htm.

Arenfeldt, Pernille, Nawar Al-Hassan Golley. Mapping Arab Women’s Movements. A Century of Transformations from Within. Edited by Pernille Arenfeldt and Nawar Al-Hassan Golley. Cairo and New York: American University of Cairo Press, 2012.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Wissensproduktion und Wissensverbreitung im 16. Jahrhundert. Fürstinnen als Mittlerinnen von Wissenstraditionen." Historische Anthropologie. Thema: Botengänge, edited by Caroline Arni, Regina Schulte and Xenia von Tippelskirch 20, no. 1 (2012): 4-29. url: http://www.historische-anthropologie.uzh.ch/zeitschrift/archiv1/20.html.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Gendered Patronage and Confessionalization: Anna of Saxony as a “Mother of the Church”." Renæssanceforum; Issue titled, "Renaissance Women as Patrons of Art and Culture", edited by Hannemarie Ragn Jensen, Minna Skafte Jensen, and Lene Østermark-Johansen 4, no. 1 (2008): 1-26. url: http://www.renaessanceforum.dk/rf_about_journal.htm.

Schulte, Regina, Pernille Arenfeldt, Martin Kohlrausch, Xenia von Tippelskirch. The Body of the Queen. Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500–2000. Edited by Regina Schulte, Pernille Arenfeldt, Martin Kohlrausch, and Xenia von Tippelskirch. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "The Female Consort as Appeal Institution in Early Modern Germany." Fund og Forskning 2005; Less Favored – More Favored: Proceedings from a Conference on Gender in European Legal History, 12th-19th Centuries edited by Grethe Jacobsen, Helle Vogt, Inger Dübeck, and Heide Wunder. Copenhagen: The Royal Library 2005, no. 1 (2005): Sec. 18, 1-14. url: http://www.kb.dk/da/publikationer/online/fund_og_forskning/less_more/.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Provenance and Embeddedness. The Letters from Elisabeth, Countess Palatine (1552-1590) to Anna, Electress of Saxony (1532-1585)." EUI Working Paper HEC. Special volume titled, ”Reading, Interpreting, and Historicizing: Letters as Historical Sources", edited by Regina Schulte and Xenia von Tippelskirch 2004, no. 2 (2004): 53-72.

Jacobsen, Grethe, Pernille Arenfeldt. "Selection, translation of, and commentary on primary sources related to Denmark." In Ages of Woman, Ages of Man. Sources in European Social History, 1400-1750, edited by Monica Chojnacka and Merry Wiesner Hanks, xxx-xxx. London and New York: Longman/Pearson, 2002.

Arenfeldt, Pernille, Pernille F. Hasselsteen. Din hengivne Louise. Louise Rasmussens breve til Carl Berling og kronprins/kong Frederik VII 1844-1850 [Your affectionate Louise. Louise Rasmussen’s Letters to Carl Berling and Crown Prince/King Frederik VII, 1844-1850]. Edited by Pernille Arenfeldt and Pernille F. Hasselsteen. Copenhagen: Fremad, 1999.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Kong Frederik IIs hof. Centraladministration og husholdning [The Court of King Frederik II. State Administration and Household]." In Svøbt i mår. Dansk folkevisekultur 1550-1700, vol. 1: Adelskultur og Visebøger, edited by Hanne Ruus and Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen, 327-390. Copenhagen: Reitzels Forlag, 1999.

Conference Presentations

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Whispers in the Women’s Majlis”: Feminist Expressions in the United Arab Emirates." Paper presented at the Creating Global Change. An Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies Conference at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN http://www.mtsu.edu/womenstu/conference/index.php, March 23-26, 2017.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Elite Women as Confessional Advocates in Protestant Territories, 1550-1590. Presented in panel titled, Ideas and Collective Thoughts in Elite Family Networks." Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain. https://esshc.socialhistory.org/esshc-user/programme, April 1-2, 2016.

Golley, Nawar Al-Hassan, and Pernille Arenfeldt. "Re-thinking Gender Complementarity in Emirati Families." Paper presented at the The 4th International Conference on Women's Studies - Gender Equality and the Law. Famagusta, Cyprus, October 3-5, 2012.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Gendered Dynamics of Knowledge Production and Knowledge Dissemination: Princely Women as Mediators of Knowledge." Paper presented at the Botengaenge: Zur Geschlechtergeschichte von informellem Wissensaustausch (1500-1900) / Passing the Word: Gender and Informal Circulation of News and Knowledge, c. 1500-1900 Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte und Geschlechtergeschichte,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. July 1-2, 2011.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Negotiable Boundaries of Authority: The Female Consort as “Mater Patriae” and “Mater Familias”." Paper presented at the Der Hof. Ort kulturellen Handelns von Frauen in der Frühen Neuzeit [The Court: A Locus of Cultural Agency for Women in the Early Modern Period] Forschungszentrums Musik und Gender (at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater, Hanover) in cooperation with the Duke August Library, Wolfenbuettel, Germany (See further details and program here: http://hsozkult.ges

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "What’s inside? Jakob Ruf on Moles and Monsters." Paper presented at the From the Margins to the Centre. Sociocultural Practices, Material Culture and Subjectivity Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany, September 15-16, 2009.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Anna of Saxony as Mater Ecclesiae." Paper presented at the Renaissance Women as Collectors and Patrons of Art and Culture Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 20-21, 2006.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "The Female Consort as Appeal Institution in Early Modern Germany." Paper presented at the Gender in European Legal History, 12th-19th Centuries Less Favored – More Favored in Law and Legal Practice: Gender, Power and Authority The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 27-29, 2004.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "Negotiations between Husband and Parents. A Case of Conflict in the Lives of Princely Women." Paper presented at the Ninth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, German History 1490-1790 German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., USA, April 9-12, 2003.

Arenfeldt, Pernille. "‘As if God has blessed me’. Princely Pregnancies in Sixteenth-Century Germany." Paper presented at the Seventh Nordic Symposium of Gender Historians Gothenburg University, Sweden, August 8-11, 2002.

Awards and Honors

Award for Excellence in Teaching, Academic year 2010-2011. Awarded to Dr. Pernille Arenfeldt by College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah.

Marie Jahoda Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary and International Gender Studies Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. 2011. See http://www.sowi.rub.de/jahoda/

Research Grant 2010-2012. AED 200,000.00. Awarded to Dr. Pernille Arenfeldt/Dr. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley by Emirates Foundation. [The grant was awarded for the project titled “Rethinking Gender Complementarity in Emirati Families”]

Faculty Research Grant. AED 25,000.00. Awarded to Dr. Pernille Arenfeldt/Dr. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley by American University of Sharjah. [The grant was awarded for the project titled “Mapping Arab Women’s Movements” (joint project with Nawar al-Hassan Golley, American University of Sharjah)]. 2008.