Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University. From 1 September 2019 onwards, he will be directing a NWO-funded (Vici) project entitled “Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History.”

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News

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  18 June 2024 Academic freedom report: ‘This jewel in our crown deserves better care’
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  01 June 2022 Ethics and student research: 'Students have the same questions as researchers'
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  11 June 2021 Critical thinking? Or rather generous thinking?
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  26 February 2019 Early-modern vices: why are they still around? Vici grant for Herman Paul
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  26 February 2019 Seven Leiden researchers win €1.5m Vici grant
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  11 December 2018 Herman Paul appointed Professor of History of the Humanities
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  20 June 2017 Succesful workshop 'Traditions of Authority'
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  04 April 2017 Call for Papers 'Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000'
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  07 March 2017 ZonMw Grant for Project on Competitive Research Funding
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  11 February 2016 Call for papers for conference 'The Persona of the Historian: Repertoires and Performances, 1800-2000'
• 01 December 2015 Thorbecke Fund Grant for Herman Paul
• 22 May 2013 Three VIDI Grants for Humanities researchers

PhD candidates

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  Lucas Gahrmann PhD candidate
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  Anne Por PhD candidate / Guest
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  Edurne de Wilde PhD candidate

Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University. Since 1 September 2019 he directs a NWO-funded (Vici) project entitled “Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History.”

Previous and still ongoing projects include “The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1930” (funded by NWO), “The Demands of Our Time: Epochal Thinking from 1800 to the Present” (funded by KNAW), and “Follow the Money: Does Competitive Research Funding Contribute to Questionable Research Practices?” (funded by ZonMw).

Paul is the author of “Key Issues in Historical Theory” (2015) and “Hayden White: The Historical Imagination” (2011). He is editor of the “Journal of the Philosophy of History” and associate editor of “History of Humanities.”

He is currently at work on a book-length study of virtues and vices in nineteenth-century German historiography and editing a volume entitled “Writing the History of the Humanities.”

Full-text versions of many of his papers can be found on his Academia website.

Paul obtained his PhD (2006) from the University of Groningen, where he also held a postdoc position (2006-2011) and still holds a special chair in secularization studies (2012-2020). Visiting fellowships took him to Princeton (2006-2007), Leuven (2008), Mainz (2009), and Berlin (2016). From 2013 to 2018, he was a member of The Young Academy (KNAW).

Hours

On appointment.

Fields of interest

• History of Humanities
• Historical theory
• Historiography
• Intellectual history
• Religious history

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