DOROTHEA McEWAN
Archivist. Historian.
Dorothea McEwan is Honorary Fellow of the University of London, first and long-time archivist at The Warburg Institute. The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images, and society. Dorothea has been elected member of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences in recognition of her impressive publication record and outstanding contribution to research in the intersection of religious history, history of ideas and art in Ethiopia in 2017. She was awarded The Austrian Cross of Science and Art in 2008 and The Grand Decoration for services to the Republic of Austria in 2020.
Dorothea McEwan / © Hilda
“You can’t passively want without actively contributing.”
This is the list of publications since 2000
2003
Making All Things New. Women's Ordination - A Catalyst for Change, (with Myra Poole, Afterword by John Wijngaards), London: Canterbury Press, 2003, pp. 243. ISBN 1853115282
2004
Anthony Allfrey, The Goldschmidts, London: Think Publishing, 2004, pp. 557, Index 266-557 by Dorothea McEwan. ISBN 0954136330
Travelling Roads of Culture. The Aby Warburg - Fritz Saxl Correspondence from 1920 to 1929. With a foreword by Martin Warnke. Volume II, Small Papers of the Warburg Institute London and the Warburg Archive in the Warburg-Haus Hamburg, edited by Nicholas Mann and Martin Warnke. Munich - Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz Verlag, pp. 253. ISBN 3935549857
2006
Picturing Apocalypse in Gondär. A Study of the Two Known Sets of Ethiopian Illuminations of the Revelation of St John and the Life and Death of John. By Robin McEwan, edited posthumously by Dorothea McEwan. Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, pp.266. ISBN 888419296X
Dorothea McEwan, Gerd Graeber, Johannes Hock, The Sketchbook of Eduard Zander (18131-1868). Views from Northern Ethiopia (1852-54). Hsg. vom Verein für Anhaltische Landeskunde E.V., Köthen/Dessau 2006. Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Dessau, Band 4, pp. 88 , with a preface by Lij Asfa-Wossen Asserate, 73 colour reproductions, 6 black and white reproductions and one map. 1 visual contribution. ISSN 18634702
2009:
Research aid, stated on p.ix.: Mary Kay Wilmers, The Eitingons. A Twentieth Century Story. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, ISBN 9780571234721
Database of the Aby Warburg Correspondence in the Warburg Institute Archive, 1866-1929. Abstracts, in English, of 37845 letters, in seven languages, in the Aby Warburg collection at the Wrburg Institute, London. http://calmview.warburg.sas.ac.uk/calmview
2010
Der Vater auf dem Bügelbrett und andere Geschichten aus der Bechardgasse, with Gunda Plasser, Lotte Schwind and Anni Tepser. Glödnitz: Memoiren-Verlag Bauschke, pp. 254. ISBN 9783902757173
2011
Dialogue in poems. With Josef Ortner. Glödnitz: Memoirenverlag, 2011, pp. 146. ISBN 9783902757395
2012
Fritz Saxl: A Biography. Aby Warburg's librarian and first director of the London Warburg Institute. Vienna: Boehlau Verlag, pp. 344. ISBN 9783205788638; ISBN 320578863X
2013
The Story of Däräsge Maryam. The History, Buildings and Treasures of a Church Compound with a painted church in the Semen Mountains. Vienna: LIT-Verlag, Series: Kunst: Forschung und Wissenschaft, vol. 2, pp. 184 [Review by Jeremy Harding in London Review of Books, London, 23 Jan. 2014, 6 columns with illustrations of east wall]. ISBN 9783643904089
2015
Georg Wilhelm Schimper - in Abyssinia. Observations on Tigre. Critical Online Edition. Edited by Andreas Gestrich and Dorothea McEwan in collaboration with Stefan Hanß. London: British Library; German Historical Institute London; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2015. [Georg Wilhelm Schimper - In Abyssinia. The transcription of Schimper's two manuscript books 'In Abyssinia. Wilhelm Schimper's Betrachtung der Vegetation in Tigray', 1864/65 and 1868; the translation into English 'Observations of the Botany of Tigré'; the biography of Schimper; the bibliography of writings by and on Schimper. Hosted by the German Historical Institute London]. www.ghil.ac.uk/Schimper
2016
Our Way. The Girl Scout Group 2, "Hemma von Gurk" in Vienna, St. Karl. Glödnitz: Memoiren-Verlag Bauschke, 155 pp. ISBN 9783902990433
2018
Eduard Zander, sein Leben und Wirken in Ethiopien, 1847-1868. catalogue raisonné / Werkverzeichnis. Dessau-Roßlau: Veröffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Dessau-Roßlau Stadtarchiv, vol. 23. ISBN 9783947825028. ISSN 18634702
2021
Ethiopia Illustrated. Sacred Paintings, Maps and Drawings. An Anthology. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 9789994469123
The Habsburg Mediterranean 1500-1880. Edited by Stefan Hanß and Dorothea McEwan. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. Institute for Research on Modern and Contemporary History. Archives of Austrian History, vol. 145. ISBN 9783700188094
2023
Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing. London: Taylor & Francis. Imprint: Routledge. Variorum collected Studies. ISBN 9780367769413 (hbk), ISBN 9780367769444 (pbk), ISBN 9781003169024 (ebk).
Dorothea McEwan, Jorge de Torres, Mario Lozano Alonso (eds) (2023), Ethiopian Art and Architecture: recent studies with focus on Jewish, Christian and Muslim material culture. Proceedings of the Zoom Conference from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 November 2021 Ethiopian Art and Architecture: Recent Studies with Focus on the 16th to the 18th centuries. Roma-Napoli: UniorPress. Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, vol. 7, ISSN 03900096
Numerous articles, translations from German into English and English into German, academic science consultancy, teaching at the University of London, radio interviews, lectures, master classes, reviews, expert reports, etc.
“As an Austrian abroad, I always have two realities in mind: how does ‘abroad’ affect me? How does ‘home’ affect me?”
