Felicity Jensz

Academic Status

College of Human Sciences and Culture

felicity.jensz@flinders.edu.au

Social Science South

PD Dr Felicity Jensz has a Adjunct Academic Status as Associate Professor in History, Archaeology, Indigenous Studies and Geography in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. She specialises in imperial and colonial history, in particular German and British history, as well as history of Christian missions, colonial education, media history and culture of remembrance. She is also interested in colonial collecting practices, gender history and histories of childhood. She is currently PI on a German Research Foundation project entited Global Bible Her most recent monograph is Missionaries and Modernity (MUP, 2022).

Qualifications

Habilitaiton (Universität Münster), PhD (UniMelb), MA (UniMelb), BA (Hons)(UniMelb)

Honours, awards and grants

2023-2026: DFG/ARHC Grant: Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism, 1800-1914 – GloBib (2023 – 2026)

2025: Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

2025, Feb.: Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Bristol

2025: Erasmus Plus Mobility Grant. Host Instituion: University of Helsinki

2023-2024: LWL KulturStiftung Grant: Mapping the Object

2021: Honorary Title of Docent in Church History, University of Helsinki

2019: Honorary Visiting Academic, History & Archaeology, Flinders University, Australia

2019: Academic Fellow, History Department, The University of York, UK, ERASMUS+ STA/STT Möbilität

2011: Horner Memorial Library Fellowship, German Historical Institute (Washington) and the German Society of Pennsylvania, USA.