Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator
Project management: “Religious Violence” in Historical Perspective | Research Focus 3 – Fragmented Orders: Social Cohesion under Conditions of Radical Plurality
Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: Imperial Politics and Spaces of Religions in the 3rd Century | Research Field 2
Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: Biblical Justification Narratives in Late Antique Environment – the Role of Imperial Women | Research Field 2
Subject areas
History
Main research
Christianity, Greek history
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Biografische Angaben
2021-23: Vice Dean of the Department of Philosophy and History
Since 2021: Long-term project “A Historical and Theological Commentary on John of
Ephesus”2021: “Humanities international” prize
Since 2020: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Historische Kolleg
2019-2022: Board member at the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Byzantium between
Orient and Occident” Mainz / Frankfurt2019: Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Member of the Accademia Ambrosiana
Erwin Stein Prize
2017/8: Member of Panel SH 6 of the ERC
2015/6: Fellow of the Faculty of Classics and Robinson College in Cambridge / UK
Since 2015: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Historisches Kolleg München
Since 2015: Chair of joint DFG-NCN and DFG-ANR meetings for the entire field of humanities and social sciences
2015-2023: Head of the Leibniz Prize project “Polyphony of Late Antique Christianity”
2015-2018: Sub-project leader in the CRC 1095 “Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes”
2015-2016: Founding spokesperson of the SFB 1095 “Discourses of Weakness and
Resource Regimes”2015: Leibniz Prize
2014-2021: Involved in the “Personnel Decisions” research group
Since 2013: Member of the selection committee for the Karl Christ Prize
Since 2012: Involved in the GK “Theology as Science”
Since 2011: Member of the advisory board of Ceraneum (Lodz)
2011: Approval of a Koselleck project “Christianizations in the Roman
Empire”Since 2008: Various ad hoc reviews for the DFG (SFBs, FORs, KFGs, etc.)
2008-2016: Member of the Scientific Commission of the Union of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2008-2016: Member of the review board “Ancient Cultures” at the DFG
Since 2008: Full member of the German Archaeological Institute (Berlin)
Liaison lecturer of the German National Academic Foundation
2008: Call to the University of Cologne (rejected)
Since 2007: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Frobenius Institute (Frankfurt / Main)
2007-2019: Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Formation of normative
orders”2007-2017: Member of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (Munich)
2007-2011: Senator of the Goethe University
2007: Member of the German Archaeological Institute
Appointment at Humboldt University Berlin (rejected)
2005-2014: Involved in the IGK “Political Communication from Antiquity to the Present”
2005-2008: Project leader in the research group “Knowledge culture and social change”
2005-2007: Dean of the Department of Philosophy and History
Since 2001: Professor (C 4 / W 3) of Ancient History in Frankfurt / Main
2001: Call to the University of Hanover (rejected)
1997-2001: Heisenberg-Stipendium
1996/97: Feodor Lynen Scholarship
1995/6: Representative of the Chair of Ancient History Greifswald
1995: Habilitation in Ancient History, FU Berlin
1990-1995: Research assistant at FU Berlin
1990: Dr. phil., Marburg
1989: Scholarship from the DAAD
1988: 1st state examination, Marburg
1982-1988: Studied history, Latin and Greek in Marburg, Heidelberg and Pavia
Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation