Curriculum Vitae - Kari Elisabeth Børresen

• Senior Professor
• Faculty of Theology
• University of Oslo
  
  
• Private Address:
• Oscars gate 46 b
• 0258 Oslo
• Norway
  
  
• Born in Oslo, Norway, 16-10-1932

Examina, University of Oslo

• 1954, French language and literature.
• 1956, General history.
• 1960, History of ideas, Magister artium with dissertation: Ideen om et oppdragende forsyn, belyst ved dens utformning hos Bossuet, Turgot og Comte. (The idea of educational providence, in Bossuet, Turgot and Comte. Norwegian Mag.art. corresponds to American Ph.D.)
• 1968, Doctor philosophiae , Oslo University, with thesis: Subordination et Equivalence. Nature et rôle de la femme d′après Augustin et Thomas d′Aquin. (Norwegian Dr.philos. corresponds to German Dr.Habil.)

Studies abroad

• Paris: La Sorbonne (Henri-Irénée Marrou). Ecole pratique des hautes études (Pierre Hadot). Institut catholique (Jean Daniélou).
• Poitiers: Centre d′études médiévales.
• Heidelberg: Theologische Fakultät (Hans von Campenhausen).
• Mainz: Cusanus-Institut (Rudolf Haubst).
• Oxford: St. Hilda's College (Beryl Smalley).
• Rome: Istituto di Norvegia, Bibliotheca Vaticana, Istituto Biblico, Università Gregoriana.

Engagements

• 1961: Scientific Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo.
• 1961 - 65: Research Fellow, Norwegian Research Council.
• 1966 - 68: Research Fellow, Department of Systematic Theology, Århus University.
• 1970 - 71: Grant from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
• 1977 - 80: Research Fellow, Norwegian Research Council, Women's Studies Program.
• 1982 - 00: Research Professor, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture.
• 1993 - 00: Professor of Medieval Studies/Gender Studies, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Oslo.
• 2000 - 02: Professor of Historical Theology/Gender Studies, Department of Church History, University of Oslo.
• 2003-: Senior Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo.

Visiting abroad

• 1977-79: Visiting Professor, Faculty of theology, Università Gregoriana, Roma.
• 1981: Visiting Professor, Faculté de théologie, Université de Genève.
• 1981-82: Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Women's Studies in Religion Program, The Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1983: Resident Scholar, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
• 1988: Resident Scholar, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy.
• 1988-89: Member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey.
• 1994: Member of the Center of Theological Inquiry.
• 1995: Member of the Center of Theological Inquiry.
• 1996: Member of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota.

International activities

• 1978-81: Consultant, Study on the community of women and men in the church, World Council of Churches, Genève.
• 1979-2003: Member of Conseil de l'association internationale d'études patristiques.
• 1981-85: Co-Director, Research project: Female, Male, Human in Early Christianity, Faculty of theology, Uppsala University.
• 1982-87: Member of Advisory Board, Research Project: Frau and Christentum, Institut für ökumenische Forschung, Universität Tübingen.
• 1984-93: Member of Advisory Committee of Feminist Theology, Concilium, Nijmegen.
• 1992: Chairperson of the first European Research Conference in the Humanities, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg: Women in the Christian Tradition, from Late Antiquity to Age of Reform.
• 1995, 1998: Convener of the second and third European Research Conferences in the series: Women in the Christian Tradition.
• 1997-2001: Coordinator of Research network/doctoral course, Gender and Religion in Europe , University of Oslo, Università Roma III and Universiät Wien,
• 1997-2004: Director of an International research group, Gender and Religion in Formative Christianity and Islam , Research Council of Norway.
• 1997-2008: Coordinator of the Critical edition, Christina of Sweden. Writings . The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm.
• 2004-06: Coordinator with Università Roma III of exploratory workshop/scientific network: The Impact of Cultural and Religious Gender Models on the European Formation of Socio-Political Human Rights , European Science Foundation.
• 2004-07: Collaborator in the interdisciplinary research project: Democracy, Religion and Women's Human Rights , Research Council of Norway.
• 2006- : Co-editor of two volumes in Irmtraud Fischer, Mercedes Navarro Puerto, Jorunn Økland, Adriana Valerio (eds.) The Bible and Women. An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History (to be published in 22 volumes in English, German, Spanish and Italian).

Honours

• 1992: Doctor theologiae honoris causa, Uppsala University.
• 1995-: Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
• 2003: Prize of Honour from the Norwegian Society of Women Theologians.
• 2011: Doctor theologiae honoris causa, University of Iceland.