T.H. (Todd) Weir, Prof
PAST ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2015- 2016 Senior Lecturer, Modern European History, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
2007- 2015 Lecturer, Modern European History, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
2006 Adjunct Lecturer, Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington, Seattle
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
2017-2023 Director, Centre for Religion and Heritage
2017-2022 Department Chair, Christianity and the History of Ideas
Since 2022 Faculty Ambassador, Open Science and Open Education
Since 2022 Member, University Committee for Academic Practice (UCW)
Since 2022 Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
2023 Interim Director, Graduate School of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
EDUCATION
2005 PhD, Modern European History, Columbia University, New York
2000 MPhil, Modern European History, Columbia University, New York City
1998 Magister, Modern History and Cultural Studies, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
1988 BA with honors, Development Studies, Brown University
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND PRIZES
2023 NWO Open Competition M, “Culture Wars and Modern Worldviews”
2023 Erasmus Plus Grant, Horizon 2020 European Union (PI)
2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, sponsor of Dr. Ana Fernandez Aballi)
2022 Senior Fellowship, Leipzig University Research Center: “Multiple Secularities”
2020 Educational Grant, Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency (Rijksdienst voor het cultureel erfgoed) (PI)
2020 Erasmus Plus Grant, Horizon 2020 European Union (Co-applicant)
2018 Conference grant, Royal Dutch Academy of Science
2017 Jacques Barzun Prize for best book of cultural history for Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany, American Philosophical Society
2016 British Academy Conference
2016 Conference Grant, Royal Dutch Academy of Science
2014-2015 Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, UK
2012 Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council
2012 Honorary Residential Fellowship, Historisches Kolleg, Munich
2011 Small Research Grant, British Academy, UK
2010 Winner of the 2010 H-German syllabus contest for best module on Nazi/Holocaust history
2010 Teaching enhancement grant from Queen’s University
2009-2010 Visiting Fellow, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle
2008 Research stipend, German Academic Exchange Service
2002-2004 Research Fellow, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2001-2002 Research stipend, German Academic Exchange Service
1998-2003 4-year doctoral fellowship, Columbia University
1997-98 MA fellowship, Stiftung “Luftbruckendank”, Berlin
PHD STUDENTS
Current PhDs (first supervisor)
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Thao Nghiem “Secularism and the Communist Vietnamese State 1945-1991”
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Baltazar J. Acebedo, “Ecclesia in Asia: The Catholic Church in Asia after Vatican II” Interfaculty PhD
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Martin Andrade-Pérez, “The Unesco Lists of Intangible Heritage”
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Maurice Backschat “Lutheran theology in the shadow of the Third Reich” Dual Degree with Muenster.
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Ediz Hazir “The Catholic Community of Istanbul, 1850 to 1950” Double Degree with Charles Univesity, Prague.
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Sam Van Leer “‘One Nation under God?’: ‘National’ Churches and the Challenge of Regional Identity in Belgium and Britain”
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2019 Co-organizer (with K. Knibbe, M. McIvor): Annual conference NGG Dutch Religious Studies, Groningen
2019 Principal convener: Religious Heritage in a Diverse Europe, International Conference, Groningen
2017 Principal convener (with H. McLeod and B. Ziemann): Defending the faith: Religious and Secularist Apologetics in Twentieth-Century Politics, British Academy Conference , London
2017 Principal convener (with H. Tóth), Conference Encounters of religion and socialism in during the long 1960s” University of Groningen
2015 Convener, international conference, The interwar Kulturkampf, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
2009 Convener, international symposium The Monist Century 1845-1945: Science, Secularism and Worldview Queen’s University Belfast, UK
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2024 Editorial board member, Religion and Its Others book series, De Gruyter
2024 Editorial board member, Modern Intellectual History
2022 Scientific Expert, Explaining Atheism Project, Templeton Foundation
2021 Scientific Expert, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2020 Scientific Expert, Future for Religious Heritage, Brussels
2019 Committee Member, Evaluation of Teaching Exercise for the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leiden
2019 Committee Member, Marie Curie Fellowship, European Research Council, Brussels
2018-2021 Committee member, Dutch National Science Council (NWO), Veni and Vedi grant competitions.
2017 External PhD examiner, History of Ideas and Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2015 Scientific Advisory Board, Modernism, Milan, Italy
2015 Judge, H-German syllabus contest
2012-2015 Scholarship assessor for National Universities of Ireland
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