Dr. Ninon Dubourg

E-mail ndubourg(at)uni-koeln.de

University of Cologne - Department of History
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne
Philosophikum, Room 4.009

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Dr. Ninon Dubourg is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, funded by an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. She received her PhD from the University of Paris-Cité, France, and was a postdoctoral researcher for three years, funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS in Liège (Belgium, 2021-2024). Her research focuses on old age and physical and mental disabilities in the secular and ecclesiastical context of medieval Europe (12th-16th centuries). She runs the research blog History of Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe and has been organizing the EHESS monthly seminar "Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles" together with Fabrice Bertin (EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS) since 2021.

Project

Dr. Dubourg's Alexander von Humboldt project is entitled: "Aging in Liège - A History of Old Age at a City Scale (15th-16th centuries) (AGING)." The AGING project aims to develop new approaches in the history of ageing and retirement by analyzing the archives of five institutions in the city of Liège that were active in the care of the elderly. It examines the organization of these institutions as well as their financial records on income and expenditure in order to write an economic, urban and social history of retirement in the late Middle Ages and early modern period.