Full-time research consultant for the ERC-funded project 'Visual Translations of Jerusalem', led by Professor Bianca Kühnel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; associate director of the AHRC-funded project 'The Production and Reading of Music Sources'; co-organiser of the AHRC-funded PhD training course 'Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age'; affiliated lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge.
Education
Studies in History of Art, Germany Literature, and Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, and at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (1996-2000); MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2000-2001); PhD programme 'Medieval and Early Modern Studies' at the Georg August Universität, Göttingen (2002-2004); PhD in History of Art at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (2007).
Fellowships and Employment
DAAD scholarship for studies abroad (2000-2001); PhD scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen (2002-2004, 2006); short-term Frances A. Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute (2003); Research Associate for Illuminated Manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, cataloguing manuscripts for the 'Cambridge Illuminations Research Project' (2005-2006); Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library and Darwin College (2006-2007); Project Officer on the 'Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts' at the British Library (2007); British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warburg Institute, with a project on medieval maps of Jerusalem (2007-2010); Postdoctoral Fellow (since 2010).
Research
My research concentrates on processes of knowledge transfer through medieval encyclopaedias, especially Lambert of Saint-Omer's 'Liber floridus'. I am currently completing a revised English translation of my doctoral dissertation ('Produktion und Transformation des Wissens am Beispiel des Liber floridus. Mit einem Katalog der Handschriften'), which examines the ways in which the 'Liber Floridus' was transmitted in later manuscript copies. My second area of research is Jerusalem in Western medieval architecture and the visual arts. As part of this research, I am preparing a book-length study on medieval maps of Jerusalem (c.1100-1450) and co-edit the proceedings of the conferences 'Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West' (with Dr Lucy Donkin) and 'Visual Constructs of Jerusalem' (with Professor Bianca Kühnel and Dr Galit Noga-Banai). Other research interests include mise-en-page, the history of scholarship, and political iconography.
Selected Publications
'Studying with Maps: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Two Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts', in: Lucy Donkin and Hanna Vorholt (eds), Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West [= Proceedings of the British Academy 175] (Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 163-200
with Lucy Donkin (eds), Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West [= Proceedings of the British Academy 175] (Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012), incl. introduction on pp. 1-13
Nigel Morgan and Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elizabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt and Andrea Worm, Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge: A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, 1, The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria, the Meuse region, Southern Netherlands, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2009)
'Touching the Tomb of Christ: Notes on a Twelfth-Century Map of Jerusalem from Winchcombe, Gloucestershire', in: Imago Mundi 61/2 (2009), pp. 244-55
with Thomas Schmidt-Beste, 'Mise-en-page in choirbooks, ca. 1450-1550', in: Gazette du livre médiéval 55 (2009), pp. 31-42
with Stefan Schweizer, 'Bildlichkeit und politische Legitimation im Vorfeld des Irakkriegs 2003', in: Bildwelten des Wissens. Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch für Bildkritik 2,1 (2004), pp. 29-40
with Stefan Schweizer, 'Der "Guernica Cover-Up" vom Februar 2003. Verhüllung und Enthüllung im zeitgenössischen Bildgebrauch', in: Historische Anthropologie 3 (2003), pp. 435-446
Die Neue Wache [= Berliner Ansichten 19] (Berlin 2001)
'Die Kunst technologischer Kulturerkundung – Stephan von Huene', in: Horst Bredekamp and Jochen Brüning (eds), Theatrum Naturae et Artis. Theater der Natur und Kunst. Wunderkammern des Wissens (Berlin 2000), vol. 1, pp. 236-241, vol. 2, cat. no. 1/10-11
Forthcoming
'Herrschaft über Jerusalem und die Kartographie der Heiligen Stadt', in: Ingrid Baumgärtner and Martina Stercken (eds), Politische Kartographie des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (Zürich: Chronos)