Dr. Carolin Behrmann

Biography

Carolin Behrmann studied art history, philosophy, European ethnology, and social and cultural sciences at Tübingen, Bologna, and Berlin. From 2005 to 2011, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Image History at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Chair Horst Bredekamp), where she completed her doctoral thesis on 'Tyrant and Martyr. Image and Idea History of Law around 1600'. Her research on the image strategies of the Jesuit order in the 16th century was supported by a fellowship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from 2008 to 2009. In 2011, she was a Post-Doc Fellow and from 2012 served as an assistant in the department of Alessandro Nova at the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max Planck Institute. From 2014 to 2019, she led the research project 'The Nomos Images' as a research group leader (W2) in the Minerva Program of the Max Planck Society. She has held positions as a visiting researcher at the German Forum for Art History, Paris (2015-2016), and was a fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York, in 2020 with a project on 'Perceiving Law. Early Modern Normativity Senses'. Behrmann also received a fellowship at the International Käte Hamburger Kolleg 'Law Culture', Center for Advanced Study at the University of Bonn in 2020-2021 for a project on 'Visual Common Sense' (17th-18th centuries).

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