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Katja Berndt is a Researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 138 'Dynamics of Security' at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, specifically within Subproject A01 - 'Holding hostage'. She has held roles including Research Associate (since 2020), Research Assistant (2020), and Student Assistant (2018-2019) in this subproject. Her academic background includes a Master of Arts in History (2016-2019) and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Cultural Studies (2011-2015), both from Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Her master's thesis examined the religious conversion of Gustav Adolph von Nassau-Idstein to Catholicism, while her bachelor's thesis focused on hostage situations in the early Middle Ages. She spent a semester abroad at the University of Bologna, Italy (2013-2014).
Her research interests center on historical dynamics of security, medieval political practices (e.g., hostage-taking), religious transitions, and cultural historiography. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects analyzing security frameworks through historical case studies.
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