{{Short description|German scholar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=|name=Claudia Rapp|image = Prof-claudia-rapp-BBAW-berlin-vortrag-heiligkeitskonkurrenz-2020-02-29.JPG|honorific_suffix=FBA|thesis_title=The Vita of Epiphanius of Salamis : an historical and literary study|thesis_year=1991|alma_mater=[[University of Oxford]]|notable_works=Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual|caption=Portrait of Claudia Rapp}}
'''Claudia Rapp''' [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] is a German scholar of the [[Byzantine Empire]]. She is currently Professor of Byzantine Studies at the [[University of Vienna]], a position she has held since 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows-and-academic-staff/r/claudia-rapp|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp, Keely Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford|year=2013|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=22 January 2019|archive-date=13 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713051322/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows-and-academic-staff/r/claudia-rapp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Having studied at the [[Free University of Berlin]], she then obtained her D.Phil. in Modern History at the [[University of Oxford]] in 1992.<ref>Katerina Zacharia, ed.(2008) ''Hellenisms. Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity''. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. xi–xii</ref> She was a Professor in the History Department of the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] between 1994 and 2011, before taking up her current post in Vienna. In 2012 she became the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research at the [[Austrian Academy of Sciences]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rapp.univie.ac.at/about-us/project-team-members/claudia-rapp/|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien|website=univie.ac.at/}}</ref> and became a Full Member of the [[Austrian Academy of Sciences|Academy]] two years later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/m/rapp-claudia/|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp, Austrian Academy of Sciences|website=oeaw.ac.at}}</ref> In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Wittgenstein Prize.<ref>[https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/austrian-academy-of-sciences/the-oeaw/article/oeaw-byzantinistin-claudia-rapp-erhaelt-wittgenstein-preis-2015/ "The Wittgenstein Award 2015 Goes to Claudia Rapp,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034825/https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/austrian-academy-of-sciences/the-oeaw/article/oeaw-byzantinistin-claudia-rapp-erhaelt-wittgenstein-preis-2015/ |date=1 December 2017 }} Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6 August 2015.</ref> In July 2017, she was elected a [[Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA), the [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|date=21 July 2017}}</ref>
== Career and research == Rapp is a member of the editorial board of the online open-access journal [[Medieval worlds]].<ref>[https://medieval.vlg.oeaw.ac.at Website of Medieval Worlds]. Retrieved 26 September 2018.</ref>
She is the author of two major monographs, and has published over fifty research articles in English and German.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/Institute/imafo/pdf/forschung/byzanzforschung/Staff/Pub_ClaudiaRapp_de.pdf|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp: Publications, Lectures|date=September 2017|website=oeaw.ac.at}}</ref>
On 4 November 2019 Rapp gave the twenty-eighth annual [[W. Kendrick Pritchett]] Lecture at [[University of California, Berkeley]], with 'The [[Saint Catherine's Monastery|Monastery of Saint Catherine]] in the Sinai and its Manuscripts: A Crossroads of Christendom in the Late Antique Mediterranean'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ahma.berkeley.edu/pritchett-lecture|title=The Pritchett Lecture {{!}} Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology|website=ahma.berkeley.edu|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref>
== Selected bibliography ==
=== Monographs === * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD-5IVXqjNoC&q=holy+bishops+in+late+antiquity Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in a Time of Transition]'' (Berkeley, California University Press, 2005, paperback 2013). * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=GtbiCgAAQBAJ&q=brother-making+in+late+antiquity Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual]'' (Oxford University Press, 2016).
=== Edited volumes === * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=J9OyMgEACAAJ Bosphorus. Essays in Honour of Cyril Mango]'' (with S. Efthymiadis, D. Tsougarakis), (Amsterdam, Byzantinische Forschungen, 21, 1995) * ''Elites in Late Antiquity'' (with Michele Salzman), special issue of the journal ''Arethusa'' 33 (2000) * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=DyC7oQEACAAJ The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World. Changing Contexts of Power and Identity]'' (with H. Drake), (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2014) * ''T[https://books.google.com/books?id=0q54DwAAQBAJ&q=he+Bible+in+Byzantium:+Appropriation,+Adaptation,+Interpretation he Bible in Byzantium: Appropriation, Adaptation, Interpretation]'' (with A. Külzer), Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements 25 (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018) * ''[[doi:10.11588/propylaeum.711|Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Journeys, Destinations, Experiences across Times and Cultures: Proceedings of the Conference held in Jerusalem, 5th to 7th December 2017, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020]]'' (with F. Daim, J. Pahlitzsch, J. Patrich, J. Seligman), (Mainz, Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident, Vol. 19, 2020)
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