Julia Seeberger

Julia Seeberger is a medievalist specializing in the history of food, the senses—with a emphasis on smell—and the cultural history of the body. After studying history and cultural anthropology in Eichstätt, Göttingen, and Bamberg, she earned her Ph.D. in 2019 at the University of Erfurt’s Max Weber Centre. Her dissertation focused on the role of smell in medieval female mysticism and was awarded the 2019 Romanikforschungspreis (Romanesque Research Prize). From 2019 to 2026, she served as a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Erfurt. Since April 2026, she has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at FBK’s Italian-German Historical Institute, where she leads the project “Food in Transition from Venice to Nuremberg: Identifying Food Trends in Premodern Times (13th–17th century).”