Since 2011Adjunct lecturer for Ancient History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Since 2010Teacher for Latin and History at the Integrated School Mainz-Bretzenheim
20092nd state examination
2008 – 2010Student teacher, teacher education for Latin and History at Gymnasiums
2006 – 2008Coordinator of the Research Training Group 846 “Slavery – Servitude and Corvée – Forced Labor”; adjunct lecturer for the subject of Ancient History at the university in Trier
2007Dr. phil.
2002 – 2006Doctoral program in Ancient History and Archeology in Mainz and from June 2003 to August 2006 in Trier at the Research Training Group 846 “Slavery – Servitude and Corvée – Forced Labor”
2002Magister Artium and 1st state examination for teacher education for Gymnasium (Latin/History)
1997 – 2001Research assistant and tutor at the Institute for Ancient History of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz
1995 – 2002Program of study of Ancient History, Medieval and Modern History, Papyrology and Classical Archeology, at the Universities of Mainz and Trier
  • The West Roman Colonate from Constantine to the Carolingians (332 to 861), Hamburg 2009 (Studies on Ancient History Research, Vol. 21). Reviews: A. Marcone, in: BMCR 2011.03.42; K.-P. Johne, in: Klio 93,2 (2011), pp. 530-532; G. Köbler, in: ZRG GA 128 (2011); P. Reinard, in: MBAH 29 (2012), pp. 225-232; S. Esders, in: DA 68 (2012), pp. 334f.
  • The Adoptive Emperors – Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marc Aurel and Lucius Verus, Darmstadt 2011 (Geschichte kompakt). Reviews: C. Michels, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 18.07.2011; U. Lambrecht, Gymnasium 119 (2012), pp. 200-202.
  • Gods in the province. An investigation of the dedicatory inscriptions in the northern Germania superior and the eastern Gallia Belgica, Gutenberg 2016 (Pietas 7). Reviews: R. Lafer in H-Soz-u-Kult 23.05.2016; S. Weiler in FeRA 30 (2016), S. 48-53; Wesch-Klein, in: HZ 305 (2017), pp. 793f.; P. Herz, in: Gnomon 89 (2017), pp. 572-574.
  • Late antique society in the 4th and 5th centuries, with special consideration of the province Germania I, in: P. Haupt/P. Jung (ed.), Alzey History of the City, Vol. 3: Alzey and the surrounding area in Roman times, Alzey 2006 (Alzeyer Geschichtsblätter, Special Issue 20), pp. 101-104 and 184f.
  • The robbery of free people in late antiquity, in: H. Heinen (ed.), Kidnapping, human trafficking and slavery in ancient and modern perspective; Results of the staff meeting of the Academy project Research on Ancient Slavery (Mainz, October 10, 2006), Stuttgart 2008 (Research on Ancient Slavery, Vol. 37), pp. 157-181.
  • The economic benefit of the colonate? The system of land lease and the economic consequences, in: S. Günther (ed.), Regulatory framework of ancient economies. Regulatory concepts and control mechanisms of ancient economic systems in comparison, Wiesbaden 2012 (Philippika, Marburg ancient historical treatises 53), pp. 181-197.
  • The Burgundians to the left of the Rhine (406-436/443), in: Reports on Archeology in Rhenish Hesse and surrounding area 5 (2012), pp. 61-72.
  • Everything scratched – In the labyrinth of Cretan early history, in: Geschichte lernen 155 (2013), pp. 10-17.
  • Right in the middle instead of just there – The Roman citizenship, in: D. Schmitz/M. Sieler (ed.), Everywhere at home and yet foreign: Romans on the road, Petersberg 2013, pp. 46-55.
  • Slaves and freedmen in Mainz during the Roman Empire, in: BJb 213 (2013), pp. 75-116.
  • Romans and Barbarians: Strangers in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, in: A. Coşkun/L. Raphael (ed.), Foreign and without rights? Rights of belonging of foreigners from antiquity to the present. A handbook, Cologne 2014, pp. 121-151.
  • The generous patron Gajus Seccius. A case study on the Lex Aelia Sentia and its consequences for freedmen under 30 years of age, in: MZ 112 (2017), pp. 15-27.
  • In the service of the Great Mother of the Gods. Freedmen in the Mater Magna cult, in: J. Fischer (ed.), Studies on Ancient History of the Religion, Kraków 2017, 109–177.
  • Colonate and Aldionate among the Lombards (568–774), in: FMSt 52 (2018), pp. 59–80.
  • Alexander Weiß, Slave of the City. Investigations on public slavery in the cities of the Roman Empire, Stuttgart 2004 (Historia Einzelschriften No. 173); in: Klio 90, 2 (2008), pp. 496f.
  • Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Reacting and Shaping. The governing style of the late Roman Emperor using the example of the legislation of Valentinian I., Munich 2008; in: Gymnasium 117 (2010), pp. 404-406.
  • Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto, Slavery and manumission in the Greco-Roman world, Hildesheim/Zurich/New York 2009 (Studien Bücher Antike, Vol. 15); in: BMCR 2010.11.06.
  • Paolo de Vingo, From Tribe to Province to State, An Historical-ethnographic and Archaeological Perspective for Reinterpreting the Settlement Processes of the Germanic Populations in Western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Oxford 2010; in: H-Soz-u-Kult 14.02.2011.
  • Sandra R. Joshel, Slavery in the Roman World, Cambridge 2010, in: HZ 294 (2012), pp. 470f.
  • Thomas Finkenauer, The legislation of Marc Aurel on slavery Stuttgart 2010 (Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz – Humanities and Social Sciences Class Jg. 2010 Issue 1); in: Gymnasium 119 (2012), pp. 508-510.
  • Kyle Harper, Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425, Cambridge 2011, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 26.03.2012.
  • Manuel Koch, Ethnic identity in the emergence process of the Spanish Visigothic Empire, Berlin/Boston 2012 (Supplementary volume to the Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, Vol. 75), in: H-Soz-u-Kult 20.02.2012.
  • Jamie Wood, The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain. Religion and Power in the Histories of Isidore of Seville, Leiden/Boston 2012 (Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 21), in: H-Soz-u-Kult 16.07.2012.
  • Cam Grey, Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Contryside, Cambridge 2011, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 28.01.2013.
  • Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge 2012, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 11.02.2013.
  • Marcel van Ackeren (ed.), A Companion to Marcus Aurelius, Chichester 2012, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 25.02.2013.
  • Rainer Wiegels, Small writings on epigraphy and military history of the Germanic provinces, ed. by Krešimir Matijević/Wolfgang Spickermann, Stuttgart 2010, in: GfA 16 (2013), S. 1037-1040.
  • Jens Barschdorf, Freedmen in Late Antiquity, Munich 2012 (Sources and Research on the Ancient World, Vol. 58), in: HZ 298 (2014), pp. 156f.
  • Sean D. W. Lafferty, Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the Great. A Study of the Edictum Theoderici, Cambridge 2013, in: Gymnasium 122 (2015), pp. 193-195.
  • Klaus Rosen, Constantine the Great. Emperor between power politics and religion, Stuttgart 2013, in: HZ 300 (2015), pp. 761-763.
  • Leif Scheuermann, Religion on the border. Provincial worship of gods on the Neckar and outer Upper Germanic Limes, (Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption 17) Rahden/Westf. 2013, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 06.06.2014.
  • Steffen Diefenbach/Gernot Michael Müller (eds.), Gaul in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Cultural history of a region, Berlin/Boston 2013 (Millennium Studies on Culture and History of the First Millennium AD; Vol. 43); in: GfA 17 (2014), S. 1264-1269.
  • Alexander Baumann, Restrictions on the freedom of the decurions in late antiquity, Hildesheim/Zurich/New York 2014, in: HZ 302 (2016), pp. 173f.
  • Johanna Leithoff, Power of the Past. On the acquisition, consolidation and design of the Principate under Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, Göttingen 2014; in: BJb 214 (2014), pp. 439f.
  • Mischa Meier/Steffen Patzold (eds.): Clodwig’s World. Organization of rule around 500, Stuttgart 2014 (Roma Æterna, Vol. 3), in:
    H-Soz-u-Kult 11.05.2015.
  • Alexandra W. Busch/Alfred Schäfer (eds.), Roman votive altars in context, Friedberg 2014, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 14.03.2016.
  • Mischa Meier, Looking the Migration Period in the eye. Individual scopes for action in the 5th century AD, Heidelberg 2016, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 07.11.2016.
  • Julia Budei, Gallo-Roman sanctuaries. New studies on the location and spatial references, Ruhpolding 2016 (Studia Archaeologica Palatina, Vol. 2), in: H-Soz-u-Kult 10.04.2017.
  • Gustav Adolf Lehmann/Rainer Wiegels (eds.), “Across the Alps and across the Rhine…” Contributions to the beginnings and the course of the Roman expansion to Central Europe (Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. New Series 37), Berlin/Boston 2015, in: GfA 20 (2017), S. 1031-1039.
  • Raphael Brendel, Emperor Julian’s Legislation and Imperial Administration, Hamburg 2017, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 04.09.2017.
  • Christoph Michels, Antoninus Pius and the role models of the Roman Princeps. Ruler action and its representation in the High Imperial Period (Klio – Contributions to Ancient History. Supplements. New Series 30), Berlin/Boston 2018, in: H-Soz-u-Kult 19.11.2018.
  • Social and Legal History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  • Latin Epigraphy
  • History of the Roman provinces in the west of the Roman Empire
  • Ancient Slavery