Dorothea McEwan

is Honorary Fellow of the University of London and Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences

Dorothea McEwan is Honorary Fellow of the University of London after having been the Director of the Warburg Institute Archive. Her research focuses on a variety of research agendas: the cultural relations of the Habsburg Empire with Egypt and the Sudan, the publication of Warburgian topics on the history of scholarship and science, and the history of the Sudan and Ethiopia in the 19th century. She is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Her publications include “A Catholic Sudan: Dream, Mission, Reality” (1987); “Das Ausreiten der Ecken. Die Aby Warburg - Fritz Saxl-Korrespondenz 1910 – 1919“ (1998); „Wanderstrassen der Kultur. Die Aby Warburg - Fritz Saxl Korrespondenz von 1920 bis 1929“ (2004); „Fritz Saxl. Eine Biografie. Aby Warburgs Bibliothekar und erster Direktor des Londoner Warburg Institutes.“ (2012); „Eduard Zander, sein Leben und Wirken in Äthiopien, 1847-1868. Eduard Zander, His Life and Work in Ethiopia, 1847-1868. Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raison” (2018); “Ethiopia Illustrated. Sacred Paintings, Maps and Drawings. An Anthology” (2021).