Juliane Engelhardt

Juliane Engelhardt serves as Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Saxo Institute since 2013, previously holding Assistant Professor and Research Fellow positions. Her institutional affiliations include extended research residencies at Freie Universität Berlin, Francke Foundations, Max-Planck Institutes, and University of Cambridge through prestigious fellowships.

Her research centers on Early Modern Northern Europe with three interconnected pillars: Radical Pietism examining social protest and religious dissent (1690-1750); Gender and Religion analyzing women's roles in public spheres and feminine Christianity; and Civic Transformation investigating sociability's evolution from estate societies to modern civic cultures. Recent monograph Sociability and Civic Spirit in Northern Europe (2024) demonstrates how middling-sort communities shaped Enlightenment public debate through institutional innovation.

Current publications reveal consistent methodological trends: emotional history frameworks applied to religious unity/dissent, transnational analysis of Pietist networks across Denmark-Norway-Germany, and conceptual history tracing reason's pedagogical applications. Her work bridges religious studies, gender history, and political thought through meticulous archival research in German, Danish, and Norwegian collections.

Scientific recognition includes:

• Alexander von Humboldt Research Scholarship (2020-2021)
• Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship (2022)
• DKK 719,362 Independent Research Fund grant for Radical Pietism project (2021)
• Multiple Carlsberg Foundation travel grants (2012, 2019)

As Principal Investigator for the ongoing ERC-level Radical Pietism project (2023-2027), she leads international collaborations with German and Scandinavian institutions while serving on editorial boards for Pietismus und Neuzeit and European research councils. Her public engagement includes frequent contributions to Politiken and DR media on historical perspectives for contemporary societal challenges, particularly regarding religious radicalism and national identity formation.

Current research activities center on the Radical Pietism project team at Saxo Institute, utilizing handwritten sources from Halle, Copenhagen, and Oslo archives to reconstruct alternative public spheres where gender-egalitarian religious communities challenged political and clerical hierarchies during Scandinavia's transition to modernity.