Since April 2018, I have been working as a teaching and research fellow at the History Department of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Previously, I studied History and Classics in Münster and Rome from 2007 to 2013, before completing my PhD in Ancient History at the University of Münster in 2018. My research focuses on cultural and social history in Greco-Roman antiquity. My habilitation project examines the interplay between time and politics in democratic Athens. In my PhD thesis, I explored shifts in the self-perception of late Roman senatorial elites, analyzing transformations in memory and historical culture.

In both my research and teaching, I am intrigued by how historical and contemporary societies use the ancient world as argumentative tools. This dual perspective fosters a nuanced understanding of the political, social, and cultural dynamics that shape our past and present.

10.2022 to dateResearch employee at the Historical Seminar, research unit Ancient History of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
04.2022 – 09.2022Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
04.2018–03.2022Research employee at the Historical Seminar, research unit Ancient History at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
10.2013–03.2018Research employee at the Seminar for Ancient History of the University of Münster
01.2018Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Ancient History at the University of Münster
Prädikat: summa cum laude, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Johannes Hahn, M.A.; Prof. Dr. Steffen Diefenbach
07.2013Master of Education in History & Latin at the University of Münster
02.2011Bachelor of Arts in History & Latin at the University of Münster
10.2007–07.2013Program of study in History and Classical Philology at the University of Münster and the Università degli Studi Roma Tre
10.2024Appointment as Consolidator Fellow to the Historischen Kolleg (Munich) for the academic year 2025/2026
06.2024Ranked 3rd, W1-Tenure-Track-W3-Professorship for Ancient History with a focus on Mediality and Digitality, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
07.2018Prize of the Antonie Wlosok Foundation, Mainz
12.2007 – 07.2013Grant by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
  • Vergangenes verhandeln. Spätantike Statusdiskurse senatorischer Eliten in Gallien und Italien, Berlin 2019 (Millennium-Studien 79).
  • Reviews, as far as I know: Antiquité Tardive (by Muriel Moser); BMCR (by Veronika Egetenmeyr); H-Soz-Kult (by Hendrik Wagner); HZ (by Maik Patzelt); KLIO (by John Weisweiler); Plekos (by Ulrich Lambrecht).
  • Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul, Tübingen (Seraphim 19) (mit Veronika Egetenmeyr)
    • Reviews, as far as I know: BMCR (by Michael Hanaghan), HZ (by John F. Drinkwater); Sehepunkte (by Carlo Ferrari); Plekos (by Giampiero Scafoglio)
  • Spatia vitae. Social Time Issues in Sidonius, Hermes 151.4 (2023), 467–489.
  • „Wie anwachsende Jahresringe“: Thukydides’ Kriegschronologie und ihr Kontext, Klio 107.1 (2025), 62-93.
  • In scribendo formam vetustatis amplector. Vergangenheitsbezüge als Strategie kommunikativer In- und Exklusion in der Korrespondenz des Q. Aurelius Symmachus, in: Gernot M. Müller u. a. (Hrsgg.): Adressat und Adressant in antiken Briefen. Rollenkonfigurationen und kommunikative Strategien in griechischer und römischer Epistolographie, Berlin/Boston 2020 (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 382), 429–450.
  • Ausonius’ Professores. A Landscape of Learning in Fourth-Century Gaul? In: Tabea L. Meurer/Veronika Egetenmeyr (Hrsgg.): Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul, Tübingen (Seraphim 19), 361-383.
  • Introduction. Approaches to Education and In-/Exclusion, in: Tabea L. Meurer/Veronika Egetenmeyr (Hrsgg.): Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul, Tübingen (Seraphim 19),1-35. (with Veronika Egetenmeyr)
  • Nur mehr stille Distinktion? Otium-Konzepte und die Transformation senatorischer Statusdiskurse im spätantiken Gallien, in: Umberto Roberto/Timo Stickler (Hrsgg.): Das Weströmische Reich und seine Erforschung – neue Perspektiven, Stuttgart 2024 (Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Forschung), 259-277.
  • Portare principis imaginem. Authority and Ideology in Cassiodorus’s Conceptualization of the Quaestorship, in: Anna-Lena Körfer/Christian Stadermann (Hrsgg.): Cassiodorus’s Variae. Authority under Construction, Turnhout (Studi e Testi Tardoantichi; im Druck).
  • Conference report: HT 2016: Zwischen Konkurrenz und Integration: ‚Heilige Männer‘ und die kirchliche und staatliche Ordnung in der Spätantike, 20.09.2016 – 23.09.2016 Hamburg, in: H-Soz-Kult, 15.10.2016, (URL: www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6756).
  • Review of: Gatzka, Friederike: Cassiodor, Variae 6. Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar, in: Sehepunkte 20.4.2020, [URL: www.sehepunkte.de/2020/04/32989].
  • Review of: Kelly, Gavin/van Waarden, Joop (Hrsgg.): The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris, in: BMCR, 29.11.2020, (URL: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.11.29 ).
  • Review of: Walter, Anke: Time in Ancient Stories of Origin, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020, in: sehepunkte 21 (2021), Nr. 6 [15.06.2021], (URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/06/34809.html).
  • Review of: Kuhle, Antje: Hermes und die Bürger. Der Hermeskult in den griechischen Poleis, Stuttgart 2020, in: H-Soz-Kult, 01.11.2021 (URL: <www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94072>).
  • Review of: Grig, Lucy: Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550, Cambridge, 2024, in: HZ 320.2 (2025), 449–451 (URL: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/hzhz-2025-1072/html)
“KI-Klio. Learning/teaching historical writing in the age of its digital reproducibility”“KI-Klio. Learning/teaching historical writing in the age of its digital reproducibility” “Hype im Hörsaal”, Digitales Lernen an der JGU Mainz, January 2025
“Eigenzeit und Zeitenwende. Chronoi des Kriegs (nicht nur) bei Thukydides”Historical Colloquium, TU Braunschweig, November 2024
“Zwischen temporaler Pluralität und Synchronisation. Ansätze zu einer Zeit-Geschichte Athens im 5. Jh.”Colloquium Ancient History, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, January 2023
“Gedränge, Gewühl und Gezänk bei der Quelle. Krenai als chron(otop)ische Kommunikations- und Konflikträume”Colloquium Ancient History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 2021
“ Zum Zusammenhang von Vergangenheitsbezügen und Elitenkonstitution” Althistorisches Forschungskolloquium, Universität Bielefeld, November 2016Althistorisches Forschungskolloquium, Universität Bielefeld, November 2016
“Isonomie durch Isochronie? Zeiten vor Gericht in der athenischen Demokratie” Kolloquium am Historischen Kolleg, München, Juni 2025Kolloquium am Historischen Kolleg, München, Juni 2025
“Scheduling (In-)Equality. A Re-Exploration of Athenian Chronopolitics”Workshop “Urban Times, Bonn, May 2024
“Memoriam revocare. Monumentalisierungen senatorischer Rehabilitationen auf dem spätrömischen Trajansforum als Phänomen der Reintegration” Althistoriker:innen-Tag Hessen, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, August 2018
„As good as the ancients?
Political aspects of past references in Gallo-Roman panegyrical discourse”		Conference “Beyond the Binary”, McGill University, Montréal, March 2017
“Wie Cicero leiden?
Performative Inszenierung von Vergangenheitsbezügen in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris” Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Patristik, Universität Zürich, Mai 2016		Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Patristik, Universität Zürich, Mai 2016
  • Cultural history of the political and social in Greco-Roman antiquity
  • Time culture(s) in Greek antiquity: media, practices and discourses
  • Educational culture and educational landscapes from the Roman Empire to late antiquity
  • Elite discourses and epistolography from the Roman Empire to late antiquity
  • Urban Roman inscriptions and squares as communication spaces and media of urban Roman senatorial elites

Time is a political issue. And politics needs time. If one looks at temporalities and participation, structural challenges for historical and contemporary societies are revealed as if through a magnifying glass.


The research project examines the relationship between time and politics in classical Athens. A community based on the equality of its citizens used temporal specifications, e.g. a regular change of office, to implement democratic ideals. However, wanting to establish equal rights through time-setting contradicted the actual unequal distribution of temporal resources. In the 4th century in particular, the Athenians therefore struggled to contain time-economic differences. The exploration of temporalities thus allows a nuanced perspective on the historically influential experiment of Athenian democracy.

2021

  • Lecture in the Colloquium Ancient History at the Humboldt University Berlin “Gedränge, Gewühl und Gezänk bei der Quelle. Athenische Krenai als chron(otop)ische Kommunikations- und Konflikträume”

2022

  • April–September: Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
  • Chronoi Talk: ‚In Synch with the City? Preliminary Thoughts on Time and Community in Fifth-century Athens”

2023

  • Lecture in the Colloquium Ancient History | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: “Zwischen temporaler Pluralität und Synchronisation. Ansätze zu einer Zeit-Geschichte Athens im 5. Jh.”
  • Lecture in the Althistorischen Forschungscolloquium | Freie Universität Berlin “Im Takt mit der Stadt? Zeit und Gemeinschaft im Athen des 5. Jahrhunderts”
  • Sample lecture at the Humboldt University Berlin “Zeit – Zeichen – Geschichte(n). Mediale Figurationen und politische Dimensionen athenischer Temporalitäten im 5. Jahrhundert”

2024

  • Lecture as part of the Urban Times (Bonn) workshop “Scheduling (In-)Equality. A Re-Exploration of Athenian Times”
  • Lecture in the Colloquium Classicum | Goethe University Frankfurt “Ringen um Genauigkeit? Der temporale ἀκρίβεια-Diskurs bei Thukydides und sein Kontext”
  • Lecture in the Historical Colloquium | TU Braunschweig: “Eigenzeit und Zeitenwende. Chronoi des Kriegs (nicht nur) bei Thukydides”

2025

  • Lecture as part of the colloquium “Zeit und Zeitlichkeit in Recht und Rechtwissen in der Vormoderne” at the Historischen Kolleg, Munich: “Isonomie durch Isochronie? Zeiten vor Gericht in der athenischen Demokratie”
  • From October 2025: Consolidator Fellow at the Historischen Kolleg, Munich
2024Actors and negotiation processes: The imperial cult in Asia Minor during the Roman EmpireSecond supervisor
20232023 Investigations into the area of conflict between exception and rule in decision-making processes in the ekklēsia Second supervisorSecond supervisor
2025Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius the Great
in the synagogue dispute of Kallinikon 388 AD (ongoing)		Second supervisor
2024The tomb of Constantine the Great – a Christian consecratio?First supervisor
The Lyon lead medallion in the light of tetrarchic representationSecond supervisor
The principes iuventutis and the problem of succession – Augustus’ succession plans for Gaius and Lucius CaesarFirst supervisor
Emperor Constantine – a usurper? First supervisor First supervisor
The burial of Constantine the Great as a radical commitment to ChristianitySecond supervisor
2022Pyrrho and the Gymnosophists. On the question of an Indian influence on Greek Second supervisor
2021Cassiodorus’ stay in Byzantium – a decisive impulse for the founding and development of the Vivarium?Second supervisor
The imitation of the grandfather as a motive? The renaming of the Attic phyles by Kleisthenes in Herodotus’ Histories First supervisor
The archaic cult district on the Holy Street from Miletus to Didyma. Stabilizing institution or place of stasis? First supervisor
20202020 Do clothes make triumphant? The self-portrayal of Pompey, his triumphal robe, the imitatio Alexandri and the symbolic capital in the third triumphal procession 61 BC First supervisor First supervisor
The path across the Rubicon – a balancing act on the path to sole ruleFirst supervisor