Profile
Abstract
For me, Classical Archaeology involves cultural interactions and exchange between the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and its neighboring and successor cultures. I base both my research and my teaching on a close scrutiny of original artefacts, sites, and images which I strive to embed in larger, often transcultural and transhistorical contexts. I emphasize interconnections between geographically and chronologically dispersed visual and material cultures to trace iconographic and typological development, contexts of use, and transforming connotations. With Hellenistic genre representations and Roman sarcophagi, I study topics from the heart of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. My interdisciplinary research on 'long Late Antiquity's' visual culture from a global perspective focusses on connectivities between the Mediterranean world and other regions of ancient Afro-Eurasia.
Professional career
- since 04/2021
Junior-professor for Mediterranean Archaeology at Leipzig University - since 05/2019
University lecturer at the Department of Classical Archeology, University of Vienna - 10/2018
Habilitation at the University of Vienna, venia legendi in Classical Archyeology; thesis "Der Kalif als spätantiker Herrscher. Vorislamische Bildmotive in der visuellen Kultur der Umayyaden (The Caliph as a Late Antique Sovereign. Pre-Islamic Iconographic Motifs in Umayyad Visual Culture)" - 09/2018 - 08/2019
Director of the Photo Library and Scientific Officer for North Africa at the German Archaeological Institute, Rome Department - 04/2018
Guest professor at Masarykova Univerzita, Centrum raně středověkých studií (Centre for Early Medieval Studies), Brno - 10/2011 - 09/2017
Post-doctoral University Assistant at the University of University of Vienna, Department of Classiscal Archaeology - 10/2010 - 09/2011
Travelling Fellowship of the German Archaeological Institute - 06/2009 - 09/2010
Research Fellow at the DFG-funded project 'Qasr al-Mshatta', Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Architectural History - 11/2006 - 05/2009
Research Assistant in the Photo Library at the German Archaeological Institute, Rome Department
Education
- 02/2004 - 06/2009
Doctoral Studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin; dissertation: "Sarcophagum Posuit. Römische Steinsarkophage im Kontext (Roman Stone Sarcophagi in their Original Context)" (supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. Wrede) - 10/1998 - 12/2003
University studies, major: Classical Archaeology, minors: Ancient History, Art History, at Humboldt-University of Berlin and Università "La Sapienza" in Rome; thesis: "Dornausziehergruppen und ihre Rezeption auf Sarkophagen (The Group of Pan and Satyr as Thornpuller and its Representations on Sarcophagi)" (supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. Wrede)
- Hellenistisch-römische Genreplastik
- Römische Sepulkralkultur
- Römische und spätantike Ikonografie
- Vorislamische Bezüge in der umayyadischen Bildersprache
- Visuelle Kultur der Spätantike aus globaler Perspektive
- Digitale Bildwissenschaft