Birgit Meyer

Birgit Meyer (born 21 March 1960) is a German[1] professor of religious studies at Utrecht University.

Birgit Meyer (2015)

Career

Meyer was born on 21 March 1960 in Emden, Germany.[2] She studied comparative religion, pedagogy, and cultural anthropology at the University of Bremen and the University of Amsterdam. She earned her PhD at the latter university in 1995 under doctoral advisors J. Fabian and H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen, with a thesis titled: Translating the Devil. An African Appropriation of Pietist Protestantism. The Case of the Peki Ewe, 1847–1992. She was appointed as professor of religious studies at Utrecht University in 2011. She has previously spent over 20 years of her life living in Ghana studying Pentecostalism and religious change.[2]

Meyer has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007.[3] In April 2015 Meyer won the Academy Professors Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a 1 million euro grant.[4]

In 2015 she was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.[5]

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References
  1. "Million-euro award for Birgit Meyer". Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  2. "Prof.dr. B. Meyer (1960 - )" (in Dutch). Utrecht University. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  3. "Birgit Meyer" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  4. "Prijs voor tophoogleraren Meyer en Dekker" (in Dutch). NU.nl. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  5. "NWO-Spinozapremies voor René Janssen, Birgit Meyer, Aad van der Vaart en Cisca Wijmenga" (in Dutch). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.


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