John Tolan#
| Membership Number: | 3532 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://univ-nantes.academia.edu/JohnTolan |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/john.tolan.14/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Université de Nantes, Département d'Histoire, Professeur d’histoire médiévale (September, 2002 - present); Maître de Conférences en histoire médiévale (September, 1996-August, 2002).
- 2021 Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes Acting director.
- 2008 - 2011 Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin, Nantes, Director (Director of a major interdisciplinary research center in the social sciences (see http://www.msh.univ-nantes.fr
). Associate director (2006 - 2008)
- 1994 - 1996 University of North Carolina at Greensboro, History Department, Assistant Professor
- 1992 - 1994 Stanford University, History Department, Lecturer.
- 1990 - 1992 University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, Honors Program & Classics Department, Lecturer
Fields of Scholarship
- History of Islam in Europe
- History of Muslim-christian relations
- History of religious polemics
- Medieval history
- Medieval Latin
- History of Medieval law
- Cultural history
- History of Franciscanism
- History of the medieval mediterranean
- History of religion/religious studies
Honours and Awards
- Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes (October 2020-June 2023), Member of the Institute.
- European Research Council,Horizon 2020, Synergy Grant (April 2019-March 2025, €9 842 000). Funds the research program “The European Qur’ān”, a joint research piloted by Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid), Roberto Tottoli (Naples), Jan Loop (Copenhagen) and myself in Nantes. See euqu.eu.
- Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona (2020-present). Elected corresponding fellow of the Academy.
- Région Pays de la Loire, « Connect Talent » (March 2015-February 2019 ; € 400,000) : grant funded the establishment of the Institut de Pluralisme Religieux et de l’Athéisme (www.ipra.eu).
- European Research Council, Seventh Framework Program, Advanced Researcher Grant (March 2010-February 2015; 2,300,000 €). Funds the research project: “RELMIN: The legal status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries)”, for which I am the principal investigator. See http://www.relmin.eu
- Académie Française, Prix Diane Potier-Boès (November, 2008; €1500). History book prize for Le Saint chez le sultan. National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship (January-September, 2005; $40,000). Funded research and writing of St. Francis and the Sultan
- Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, Visiting Research Fellowship (January-June, 2005; $16,000). Residential fellowship complemented concurrent NEH fellowship
- American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship (September, 1999-August, 2000; $36,000). Funded a full year of research in order to complete Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
- Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin, Honorary Fellowship (January-July, 2000 and July-August, 1998). Non-stipendiary fellowship providing membership to the Institute
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend. (May-July, 1995; $4000). Funded research in Spanish medieval manuscript collections for Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
- Century Scholarship, University of Chicago (September, 1985-June, 1989). Funded full tuition and fees at the University of Chicago
