Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History
Education:
- PhD, Ancient History, Freie Universität Berlin, 2005
- Master of Arts, History, Classical Archaeology,
Freie Universität Berlin, 2001
Research and teaching interests
- Hellenistic and Roman Near East
- Jewish history in the Greco-Roman period
- Late Classical Greece
- Interstate relations
Selected publications
- Für Rom und Jerusalem. Die herodianische Dynastie im 1. Jahrhundert n.Chr. Frankfurt: Verlag Antike 2007
- “’God is with Italy now’. Pro-Roman Jews in the First Century CE,” in Benedikt Eckhardt (ed.), Groups, Normativity, and Rituals. Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba. Leiden et al.: Brill 2011, 157-187
- “Josephus, the Herodians and the Jewish War,” in Mladen Popovic (ed.), The Jewish War against Rome (66-70/74): Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Leiden et al.: Brill 2011, 271-289
- “Zu Fortwirken und Rezeption des Thukydides im 4. Jahrhundert v.Chr.,” in Ernst Baltrusch – Christian Wendt (eds.), Völkerrecht und Staatsverständnis bei Thukydides, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2011, 87-105
- ed., Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece, Mainz: Verlag Antike 2012
Work in progress
- Women and Dynastic Power in Hellenistic and early Roman Judea
- Local, non-priestly elites in Judea, 2nd century B.C.–2nd century C.E.
- Concepts of interstate relations in late classical Greece
Recent Courses
- Undergraduate
- Ancient Mediterranean Empires
- Hellenistic and Roman Near East
- History of Macedonia
- Introduction to Greek and Roman History
- Graduate
- Jews in the Greek and Roman World
- Problems in Roman History
- Provincial Perspectives
