Teaching experience: Several courses on Hellenistic History (Judea; Alexander the Great; the Diadochs) at the University of Bochum (Summer 2009, Autumn 2011) and the University of Münster (Autumn/Winter 2010/11; Summer 2011).
Research interests (completed and ongoing): History of Judea in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Period; Voluntary Associations in the Ancient World; Meals in the Graeco-Roman World.
The research I intend to carry out at the CAS will concern voluntary associations in the ancient Mediterranean world. Several studies have taken up this subject in the last decade. Yet, I shall discuss the data (texts, artifacts, excavated architectural structures) from an entirely different angle based on an approach that I have developed in the last years in Münster. This new perspective enables me to analyze the data within a broader context, to offer wide-ranging explanations of the phenomena, and explore new ways for the comparison of these data with other ancient as well as modern sources.
