Nadja Kundmüller
Nadja graduated with both a BA in “European History” in 2008 and a two-year MA in “Central Europe and the English-Speaking World” in 2010, from the University of Bayreuth in Germany. During the second year of her Master’s she read for an additional MSt in “Modern British and European History” at the University of Oxford, and is now continuing her studies here with a PhD. For this programme she has been awarded the Dorothy Miller PhD Scholarship.
Her research interests centre on the history of the Catholic Reformation in early modern Germany, especially Bavaria. She specializes on the role of Eucharistic devotion in the process of Catholic renewal in the former Duchy and later Electorate of Bavaria from about the mid-16th to the mid-18th century with a particular focus on the aspect of visual piety to investigate how the Eucharist was cultivated outside the Mass, through confraternities, pilgrimages, and the Corpus Christi procession.
This year Nadja is going to present her research at the University of Birmingham in June and at Durham University in September. Due to her German-related topic she is currently immersed in the primary source material in Bavaria, carrying out most of her research in Munich, Regensburg, and Passau. Therefore she has not been around St Andrews very often since she took on her PhD in 2010. But she is looking forward to becoming a part of the PhD community in September 2012.
Thesis title: The cult of the Eucharist in early modern Bavaria
Supervisor: Dr Bridget Heal