Education and religion in late antiquity Christian libraries
Research history: Winckelmann; archeology and reception of antiquity in the 18th century; project "Winckelmann als Philologe"
Greeks and "Barbarians"; Greek culture in peripheral areas; Herodotus and the Scythians; questions and problems of acculturation, assimilation and multiculturalism in antiquity; project "Kolchis zwischen Bild und Realität. Zur Konstruktion des Bildes einer Randregion der griechisch-römischen Antike"
Time, time reckoning and chronology
Antique image descriptions; ekphrasis
Academic career
12/2019–06/2020 research fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 Education and Religion, sub-project C 01 Enlightened Men – Superstitious Women? Religion, Education and Stereotypes of Gender in Classical Athens
07/2015-06/2019 research fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre 1136 Education and Religion, sub-project A 02: Education and Religion in Christian Libraries in Late Antiquity
2010-2015 research fellow in the project "Winckelmann-Ausgabe" of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz (50%)
2011-2012 research fellow at the Institute of Ancient History, Leibniz-University Hanover (50%)
2009-2011 graduate research assistant (project monitoring and research) in the SAPERE-project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Summer semester 2005 teaching assignment at the Department of Classical Philology at Hamburg University
Since winter semester 2002/03 teaching assignment at the Department of Ancient History at Göttingen University
Since 2003 review activity for the British Academy
2000-2004 Honorary fellow of the University of Exeter, School of Classics, Ancient History and Theology
1998-2000 assistant at the Institute of Ancient History, Bern University; collaboration on `"Inventar historischer Verkehrswege der Schweiz" (IVS): Aufnahme der siedlungsrelevanten archäologischen Funde des schweizerischen Mittellandes`
1997 studies abroad in Athens; work for the Epigraphic, Piraeus- and Agora-Museum
1991 two-month excavation in Vani (Georgia) under direction of Prof. Dr. Otar Lordkipanidze
1987-1997 tours for classes and the general public in the plaster collection of the Institute of Classical Archeology (since 1994: "Antikensammlung Bern")
1987 two-month excavation with the Archäologischen Dienst des Kantons Bern
1986-1993 studies in Classical Archeology (Prof. D. Willers), Greek Philology (Prof. Th. Gelzer), Latin Philology (Prof. Chr. Schäublin) at the Faculty of Philosophy and History, Bern University
Academic degrees
1997 doctorate in Classiscal Archeology ("insigni cum laude")
1993 licentiate in Class. Archeology, Greek and Latin Philology (rating "excellent"); licentiate thesis: "Barbaren in der attischen Sepulkralskulptur des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr."
