{"id":11694,"date":"2025-06-19T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instag.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=11694"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:08:25","slug":"dr-konstanze-schiemann","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.instag.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/en\/dr-konstanze-schiemann\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Konstanze Schiemann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n
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Since April 2021, I have been a research employee in Ancient History and Cultural History of Antiquity at the University of Mainz. In this role, I am active in teaching and teach seminars and practice classes for bachelor’s students every semester. I like to supplement my courses with teaching projects, field trips and other activities in order to deepen the subject matter and supplement it in a clear and vivid way. In my research, I focus on the cultural history of the Roman Empire, in particular on games and other aspects of popular culture. I am also interested in the environmental history of antiquity and the historical relationship between humans and animals. I am also interested in the influence of early Christianity on changing ideas of nature and the environment, as well as on cultural practices and everyday life. I defended my doctoral dissertation on animal fights as public entertainment in the late antique East of the Roman Empire in February 2024. Before going to the University of Amsterdam for my doctorate, I completed a bachelor’s program of study in history and Economics at the University of Mannheim and a binational master\u2019s degree in history in Paris and Heidelberg. <\/p>\n<\/jgu-base-collapsiblearea>\n

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Doctorate at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, title of the thesis: “Animal Hunts in Late Antiquity. Continuities and Changes Between the 4th and 6th Century in the East of the Roman Empire.” <\/td><\/tr>
since April 2021<\/td>Research employee at the Historical Seminar, research unit Ancient History at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz<\/td><\/tr>
2017 – 2024<\/td>Doctoral candidate in Ancient History at the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam (until November 2020 with a doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich B\u00f6ll Foundation)<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>Editorial assistant at the Collaborative Research Center Material Text Cultures of the Ruprecht Karls-University Heidelberg<\/td><\/tr>
2016 – 2017<\/td>Research employee at the chair for Ancient History at the University of Mannheim<\/td><\/tr>
2015 – 2016<\/td>Student assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim<\/td><\/tr>
2014 – 2015<\/td>Intern at the German Historical Institute Paris<\/td><\/tr>
2014 – 2016<\/td>Master’s degree in History in the binational master’s program at the Ruprecht Karls-University Heidelberg and the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris<\/td><\/tr>
2011 – 2014<\/td>Student assistant and tutor at the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim<\/td><\/tr>
2010 – 2014<\/td>Bachelor’s program of study in History and Economics at the University of Mannheim<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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