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Burgtorf, Jochen

Professor of History

History

Office: 657-278-3560

Department: 657-278-3474

Email: jburgtorf@fullerton.edu

Biography:

Jochen Burgtorf earned his doctorate in medieval history (with minors in early modern history and English/American language and literature) from Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany) in 2001, the same year he joined CSUF. Professor Burgtorf’s work encompasses the crusades, the religious military orders (particularly the Templars and Hospitallers), the papacy, refugees, law, England, the Viking age, and world history. His scholarly publications include The Templars (2021, with S. Lotan and E. Mallorquí-Ruscalleda); Von Hamburg nach Java: Studien zur Mittelalterlichen, Neuen und Digitalen Geschichte (2020, with C. Hoffarth and S. Kubon); The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314) (2010, with P. Crawford and H. Nicholson); The Central Convent of Hospitallers and Templars (2008); as well as articles in Ordines Militares, Fourteenth Century England, and Crusades Subsidia. His current book projects deal with the history of refugees at the time of the crusades, and with the Saterian, a treatise by William of St. Stephen (fl. ca. 1300), a Hospitaller lawyer (with L. Morreale and M. Richards). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK); a collaborator of the Pius-Stiftung (an international research project on papal documents); a Research Ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); a special-features collaborator for “Vikings,” Seasons 1-3 (History Channel); a former chair of CSUF’s Department of History (2011-2014); a recipient of the “Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship” (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library) (2015); a president (2016-2017) and lifetime dean of Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society); a former faculty advisor of CSUF’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (2019-2021); and the Distinguished Faculty Member (2021-2022) of CSUF’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Burgtorf serves as CSUF’s faculty advisor to The Welebaethan: A Journal of History (established in 1974).


Areas of Knowledge:

  • History - Medieval
  • Papacy
  • Crusades
  • Vikings
  • Refugees/Fugitives - Medieval

Subject(s):

  • History -- European
  • Language -- German
  • Literature -- Latin
  • Middle East
  • Religion -- Comparative
  • Germany

Language(s):

  • German

Other Languages:

Latin


Region(s):

  • Europe
  • Middle East

 

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