"David Nirenberg sees connections everywhere. As a professor of medieval history, he charted the relatedness of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought in different eras. As a dean at the University of Chicago Divinity School, he championed a program to promote collaborative ideas across the university."
Read more at Princeton Alumni Weekly.
The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed David Nirenberg as its 10th Director and Leon Levy Professor. Currently dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and professor of medieval history, Nirenberg will assume leadership of one of the world’s preeminent centers for theoretical research in the sciences and humanities.
Read more at IAS.
Westfälische Nachrichten: Der in Chicago lehrende Nirenberg ist der achte Träger des seit 1981 vergebenen Historikerpreises der Stadt Münster , mit dem ein herausragendes Werk der Geschichtsschreibung ausgezeichnet werden soll, das eine Epoche oder Entwicklung der europäischen Geschichte mit ihren Gegenwartsbezügen darlegt und über Fachkreise hinaus Beachtung findet.
Interview with Alan Posener of Die Welt : „Antijudaismus wird politisch wieder handlungsleitend.“
The University of Chicago Press awarded the Gordon J. Laing Prize to Prof. David Nirenberg for Neighboring Faiths, his examination of the interactions of Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages that provides new insight into how the faiths relate today.
