Claudia Rapp

{{Short description|German scholar}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox academic|honorific_prefix=|name=Claudia Rapp|image = Prof-claudia-rapp-BBAW-berlin-vortrag-heiligkeitskonkurrenz-2020-02-29.JPG|honorific_suffix=FBA|thesis_title=The Vita of Epiphanius of Salamis : an historical and literary study|thesis_year=1991|alma_mater=University of Oxford|notable_works=Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual|caption=Portrait of Claudia Rapp}}

Claudia Rapp FBA is a German scholar of the Byzantine Empire. She is currently Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna, a position she has held since 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows-and-academic-staff/r/claudia-rapp|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp, Keely Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford|year=2013|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=22 January 2019|archive-date=13 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713051322/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows-and-academic-staff/r/claudia-rapp|url-status=dead}}

Having studied at the Free University of Berlin, she then obtained her D.Phil. in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 1992.Katerina Zacharia, ed.(2008) Hellenisms. Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. xi–xii She was a Professor in the History Department of the University of California, Los Angeles between 1994 and 2011, before taking up her current post in Vienna. In 2012 she became the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences{{Cite web|url=https://rapp.univie.ac.at/about-us/project-team-members/claudia-rapp/|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien|website=univie.ac.at/}} and became a Full Member of the Academy two years later.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/m/rapp-claudia/|title=Prof. Claudia Rapp, Austrian Academy of Sciences|website=oeaw.ac.at}} In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Wittgenstein Prize.[https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/austrian-academy-of-sciences/the-oeaw/article/oeaw-byzantinistin-claudia-rapp-erhaelt-wittgenstein-preis-2015/ "The Wittgenstein Award 2015 Goes to Claudia Rapp,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034825/https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/austrian-academy-of-sciences/the-oeaw/article/oeaw-byzantinistin-claudia-rapp-erhaelt-wittgenstein-preis-2015/ |date=1 December 2017 }} Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6 August 2015. In July 2017, she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the national academy for the humanities and social sciences in the UK.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|date=21 July 2017}}