Altay Coşkun
25 January 2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. phil. habil. Altay Coşkun
Associate Professor
Department of Classical Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
A. DEGREES:
2007 Dec. Habilitation
University of Trier, FB III
Ancient History
(i.e. postdoctoral degree qualifying for a full professorship in Germany)
1999 Sep. Ph.D.
University of Trier, FB III
Ancient History, Latin & Greek Philology
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1996 Sep. 1 Staatsexamen University of Trier, FB III
History, Latin Philology, Education
(comparable with Joint Honours plus MA)
1989 May Abitur
Städtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath near Aachen
B. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2009 July-pres. Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Classical Studies, University of
Waterloo (appointment in March 2008, grant of tenure in June 2008, Director of
the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies 2012/13)
2009 Jan.-July Feodor-Lynen (“Humboldt”) Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics & Ancient
History, University of Exeter, UK
2002 Aug.-2008 Dec. Research Associate, Collaborative Research Centre 600 ‘Strangers and Poor
People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to
the Present Day’ (SFB 600), University of Trier
2002 Sep.-2008 July Part-time Lecturer, Department of Ancient History, University of Trier
2000 Apr.-2002 Apr. Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),
Wolfson College, Oxford University
1999 Oct.-Dec. Postgraduate Research Assistant, Department of Ancient History, University of
Trier
1996 Oct.-2000 Mar. Part-time Lecturer, Classics Department, University of Trier
1992 Mar.-1996 Sep. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Ancient History,
University of Trier
C. HONOURS, AWARDS and MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TEAMS:
2014 Feb.
2013 Feb.
Elected Member of the Société d'Études Latines de Bruxelles – Latomus (Director:
Prof. Dr. David Engels)
Elected ‘Membre adhérent de la Société d'Études Latines de Bruxelles – Latomus’
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(Director: Prof. Dr. David Engels)
2012 July-Sept. Visiting Professor of the SFB 600, University of Trier
2011 June-Aug. Feodor-Lynen (“Humboldt”) Visiting Fellow, Department of Classics & Ancient
History, University of Exeter (Hosts: Prof. Dr. Stephen Mitchell and Prof. Dr.
Anthony Harding)
2010 June-Aug. Visiting Professor of the SFB 600, University of Trier
2009 Jan.-present
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics & Ancient History,
University of Exeter
2008 June
Acceptance into the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation Network
2008 Apr.
Distinguished among the emerging scholars (habilitati) in the Humanities at the
Colloquia Academica, Mainz Academy (with a publication award)
2006 Sep.
Distinguished as emerging Ancient Historian (habilitandus), Habilitandenforum,
46. Deutscher Historikertag, Konstanz, Germany
2000 Nov.
‘Förderpreis der Universität Trier’ (prize for excellence of doctorate)
For scholarships (1992-2002) and the value of the fellowships, see F. Research Funding.
For membership in professional organizations and international research teams, see K.-L.
D. PUBLICATIONS:
0) Summary:
1) Monographs: 4
2) Edited Volumes: 5
3) a) Refereed Journal Articles: 52
3) b) Refereed Book Chapters or Conference Papers: 28
4) Unrefereed Publications: 14
5) a) Reviews and Reports: 37
5) b) Encyclopaedic Articles: 49
5) c) Databases or Online Resources: 3
5) d) Historical Maps: 6
5) e) Genealogical Tables: 4
Total of works published, edited or accepted for publication: 202
For a complete list of my publication titles, see the departmental website.
For abstracts of my of my books and articles, see my private website.
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F. RESEARCH FUNDING and SCHOLARSHIPS (Value in Canadian Dollars):
I am currently holding a UW SSHRC Seed Grant for research on the Bosporan Kingdom as well as a
SSHRC Connection Grant for Seleukid Study Day V: Rome and the Seleukid East (Brussels 2015).
To involve as many qualified students as possible into my research agendas, I regularly apply for
further funds such as the Work-Study-Program (WSP) sponsored by the Ontario Provincial
Government.
In previous years, I was granted research funding from:
– SSHRC (including a Standard Research Grant in 2011-2015 and a Connection Grant in 2013),
– University of Waterloo (UW SSHRC Seed Grants, Robert Harding Humanities and Social Sciences
Grant, UW Faculty of Arts, UW VP Research).
– the Collaborative Research Centre Strangers and Poor People (SFB 600), University of Trier,
Germany,
– the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),
– the Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany.
G. ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCE PANELS, AND CONFERENCES:
2017
2017
with Richard Wenghofer: Seleukid Study Day VI, University of Nipissing, Northbay ON.
with Tassilo Schmitt: Workshop on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians and the Process of
Romanization of the Province of Galatia in the 1st century CE.
Sep. 2016
with Sheila Ager: Workshop on Hellenistic Queens, University of Waterloo.
Aug. 2016
with Oleg Gabelko: Seleukid Study Workshop, Center for Hellenistic Studies, Dmitry
Pozharsky University, Moscow.
17/6/2016
with Richard Wenghofer: Seleukid Study Workshop, University of Nipissing, Northbay
ON.
21-23/8/2015 with David Engels: “Seleukid Study Day V: Rome and the Seleukid East”, Seleukid
Study Group & Société Latomus, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
6-11/7/2015 (member of the organizing team; director: Victor Cojocaru): “Mobility in Research on
the Black Sea Region”, Archaeological Institute of the Romanian Academy in Iaşi,
Romania.
4-5/7/2015 with Andrea Binsfeld: “Colloquium in Memory of Prof. Dr. Heinz Heinen”, St. Vith,
Belgium.
22/5/2015
Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada: “Recent
Research on the Later Seleukid Empire”, Toronto ON.
12-13/3/2015 with Craig Hardiman: “Methods of Asia Minor Studies”, Graduate Workshop,
University of Waterloo ON.  service for the Department
08/5/2014
with Gillian Ramsey: “Recent Research on Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor”. Panel
at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, McGill University,
Montreal.
1-2/5/2014 with DJ Houle, Brett Bartlett: “Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor”, Graduate
Workshop, Classical Studies, University of Waterloo.  service for the Department
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13-15/3/2014 “Recent Research on Ancient Galatia, Classical Studies, University of Waterloo. 
service for the Department
8-12/7/2013 “Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World during Hellenistic and
Roman periods.” Constanţa, Romania (with Dr. Victor Cojocaru, Archaeological
Institute of the Romanian Academy in Iaşi and Dr. Gabriel Custurea (National
Museum of History and Archaeology, Constanţa)  service for WIHS
20-23/2/13 “Seleucid Study Day IV: Seleucid Royal Women: Roles, Representations, and
Expectations”, McGill University (with Alex McAuley MA & Prof. Hans Beck)  service
for WIHS
08/01/13
with Sheila Ager: “Interstate Study Day”. Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies &
Dept. of Classical Studies, UW.  service for WIHS
5-7/9/12
“Seleucid Study Day III: War within the Family: A Reassessment of the First Century of
Seleucid Rule”, Panel of the Celtic Conference of Classics, Bordeaux. (Main convenor:
Dr. Kyle Erickson, Trinity St David, Lampeter, UK)  service for WIHS
21/6/12
‘Thesis Workshop’, Department of Classical Studies, Waterloo.  Teaching
09/11/11
“Seleucid Study Day II”, Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies.  service for WIHS
27-28/08/11 with Andrea Binsfeld: “Lectiones gratulatoriae Henrico Heinen (paene)
septuagesimo. Ein Querschnitt aus den Forschungen des Schüler/innen/kreises,“
Abtei Himmerod near Trier, Germany.
15/8/11
with Stephen Mitchell: “Seleucid Study Day”, University of Exeter, UK.  service for
WIHS
20/12/10
"Fremd und rechtlos? Bausteine und Anregungen zum Handbuchprojekt," (‘Foreign
and without Rights? Elements and Suggestions for the Companion Project’).
Workshop of the Study Group on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship. Collaborative
Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Lutz Raphael)
11/12/2010 with David Engels, Brussels/Kyle Erickson, Lampeter: “Construction of Seleucid
Royalty: Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of Antiochus I.” At the Workshop:
Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic Scholarship, Waterloo Institute for
Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo.  service for WIHS
25-26/06/10 "Systematische Querschnitte zu den Rechten von Fremden von der Antike bis zur
Gegenwart" (‘Systematic Perspectives on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship from
Antiquity to the Present Day’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and
Citizenship, Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with
Professor Lutz Raphael)
19/12/09
"Neue Projekte und Zwischenberichte" (‘New Projects and Intermediate Reports’).
Workshop of the Study Group on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship. Collaborative
Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Lutz Raphael)
7-8/11/08
"Zugehörigkeitsrechte und religiöse Differenzierung" (‘Rights of Belonging and
Religious Alterity’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship,
Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor
Wolfgang Spickermann)
19-21/10/07 "Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen zwischenstaatlicher
Beziehungen in der griechisch-römischen Welt" (‘Between Friendship and Divine
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Adoration. Modes of International Relations in the Graeco-Roman World’).
Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Heinz
Heinen/Dr Stefan Pfeiffer).
5/5/06
"Auf des Rechtes Schneide: Ausschluß und Vertreibung zwischen Gesetz, Verfahren
und sozialer Praxis untersucht an neun historischen Beispielen" (‘Legally Precarious
Balance: Exclusion and Expulsion in the Context of Law, Procedure, and Social
Practice – Nine Historical Case Studies’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’
Rights and Citizenship, Collaborative Research Centre 600 (SFB 600), University of
Trier.
12/02/05
"Second Round Table on Intercultural Onomastics: Recent Research on Celtic, Greek,
Iberian, Norman, and Roman Contact Names in Antiquity and the Middle Ages".
Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), University of Trier. (with Lidia
Kouznetsova M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
11/02/05
"Personennamen zwischen den Kulturen. Methoden, Probleme und Ergebnisse der
Interferenzonomastik" (‘Personal Names in Cultural Contact. Methods, Problems,
and Results of Intercultural Onomastics’). Network for Intercultural Onomastics
(NIO), University of Trier. (with Lidia Kouznetsova M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
09/07/04
"Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik" (‘The Foreign Friends of Rome in
the Late Republic’). Workshop of the Research Project The Foreign Friends of Rome,
Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600-A2, University of Trier. (with Professor
Heinz Heinen, Trier/ Professor Gustav Adolf Lehmann, Göttingen)
27-28/02/04 "Zugehörigkeitsrechte und die Inklusion von Fremden in politische Räume" (‘Rights
of Participation and the Inclusion of Foreigners in Political Communities’. Panel I of
the conference: "Recht, Religion und Versorgungskrisen. Wandel von Inklusion und
Exklusion Fremder und Armer von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart". Study Group
Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship, Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600,
University of Trier.
06/12/03
"Round Table on Interference and Interculturalisation in Onomastics". Network for
Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), Classics Centre, Oxford University. (with Ina
Döttinger Hartmann M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
H. INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS:
14/10/2016 The Social War as Test Case for the Principles of Roman Republican Citizenship Policy. At the
International Conference "L'Italie entre déchirements et réconciliations: revisiter la guerre
sociale (91-88 av. J.-C.) et ses lendemains", Sorbonne 1 & ANHIMA, Paris.
07/05/2016 “The Bosporan Kings in-between the Mithridatic Tradition and Friendship with Rome: the
Usurpation of Asandros Revisited”. At the symposium ‘The Black Sea Region in the Context of
the Roman Empire’, hosted by the Committee of Pontian Studies, Nea Smyrni, Athens.
04/07/2015 (St. Vith, Belgien) and 08/07/2015 (Iaşi, Romani) “Heinz Heinen und die
Bosporanischen Könige - Eine Projektbeschreibung”.
02/07/2015 “Laodike I. und die Konstruktion der ‚bösen Königin‘ in der politischen Propaganda und
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hellenistisch-römischen Geschichtsschreibung“, University of Düsseldorf.
22/05/2015 and 22/08/2015 “Simon Maccabee, Friendship with Rome and Seleukid Disintegration:
a Case-Study of Triangular Diplomacy (142/41 BC)”, at the Annual Meeting of the
Classical Association of Canada, Toronto ON, and at Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels.
12/11/2014 “Ancient Anatolia: the Cradle of Civilization and the Crossroads of Empires – an
Overview from the Neolithic Period to the Later Roman Empire.” Public Lecture,
International Dialogue Institute, Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo ON.
22/10/2014 “Revisiting the Latin Rights: from the Foedus Cassianum to the Social War”. At the
Conference: Central Italy and the creation of a cultural koinè? The different routes of
the “Romanization” (Rome, The British School at Rome and Istituto Svizzero di Roma,
21st -24th October 2014).
20/09/2014 “Keltische Personennamen und Keltische Personennamentraditionen im römischen
Galatien”. At the conference: Celts, Romans, Greek – Language and Cultural Contacts
in the Roman Empire and Associated Areas, University of Heidelberg.
08/05/2014 “Histoire par les noms in Ancient Galatia. In the panel: “Recent Research in Ancient
Asia Minor”, at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, McGill
University, Montreal.
14/03/2014 “Mystery Aspects of the Imperial Cult in Galatia”. At the International Workshop
“Recent Research on Ancient Galatia”, University of Waterloo.
15/10/2013 “The Seleucid Empire.” Università La Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
On invitation.
12/10/ 2013 “Withdrawal of Citizenship in Imperial Athens, 445 BC.” At the Villa Vigoni Gespräche
on “Polites – Cives –Citoyen. Ein interdisziplinärer Dialog über Bürgerrecht und
Staatsangehörigkeit”, Como, Italy.
I was invited by the organizers Michael Sommer and Volker Grieb to contribute an
abstract to the conference proposal to the Villa Vigoni, which was accepted in 2012.
12/07/ 2013 “Ethnarch der Juden – Ein Herrschaftstitel im Kontext des seleukidischen und
römischen Imperialismus“ (Ethnarch of the Jews’ – A Ruler Title in the Context of
Seleucid and Roman Imperialism). At the Interconnectivity Conference, Constanta,
Romania.
I am co-organizer of the conference.
And extended version of the paper was also presented within the speakers series at
McMaster University, 17 Sep. 2013.
08/07/ 2013 “Interconnectivity – In memoriam Heinz Heinen.” At the Interconnectivity Conference,
Constanta, Romania.
I am co-organizer of the conference.
23/05/2013 “Warlordism in Late Hellenistic Anatolia.” At the conference: Multipolarity and
Warlordism on the Ancient Mediterranean (Cent. IV-I BCE). Institució Catalana de
Recerca – Estudios Avançats (ICREA) & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
I was invited by the organizers Antoni Ňaco del Hoyo and Jordi Principal to contribute
an abstract to the conference proposal to ICREA, which was accepted in 2012.
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29/03/2013 “Latène Artefacts and the Locations of Celtic Settlements in Hellenistic Asia Minor. A
Pessimistic Review.” At the conference: The Celts and the Classical World: from
Ireland to Asia Minor, Moscow (via skype).
On invitation in 2012.
21/02/2013 “Layers of Anti-Seleucid Propaganda and the Representations of Laodice I in
Hellenistic-Roman Historiography.” At the Seleucid Study Day IV, McGill University,
Montreal.
I am co-organizer of the conference and included an abstract of this paper into the
application for a SSHRC Connection Grant.
20/02/2013 “Introduction into Current Trends in Seleucid Studies.” At the Seleucid Study Day IV,
McGill University, Montreal.
I am co-organizer of the conference.
06/09/2012 “Antiochus Hierax’ Foes and Allies: a New Account of the Seleucid ‘War of Brothers’
(246-228/27 BC).” At the Seleucid Study Day III = Panel at the Celtic Conference of
Classics, Bordeaux.
22/05/2012 “Der Kult des Theos Sebastos in Galatien: ein Mysterienkult” (‘The Cult of Theos
Sebastos in Galatia: a Mystery Cult?’). On the 2nd Greek-Turkish Epigraphy Symposium
(Adrasan – Antalya, 22-26 May 2012). – An English version of this paper was held on
the Thesis Workshop, Waterloo, 21 June 2012.
19/05/2012 “Die Eliten von Ankyra und Pessinus in römischer Zeit: Zwischenergebnisse” (‘The
Elites of Ancyra and Pessinous in the Roman Period: Preliminary Results’). At the
conference of the Research Network on Local Elites in the Hellenistic and Roman
Empires, Universität Universität zu Köln (Cologne), Germany.
09/05/2012 “Kings and Tetrarchs of the Ituraeans in the 1st Century BC’”. At the Annual Meeting of
the Classical Association of Canada, London ON
09/11/2011 “The Third Syrian War and the War of Brothers Revisited.” At the Seleucid Study Day II,
Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, Waterloo ON.
27/08/2011 “Zur Siegesideologie der frühen Seleukiden” (‘On the Ideology of Victory among the
Early Seleucids’). At the conference: Lectiones gratulatoriae Henrico Heinen (paene)
septuagesimo, Abtei Himmerod near Trier, Germany.
15/08/2011 “The Soter Cults of Seleucus I and Antiochus I Preceding the So-Called Elephant Victory
of ca. 275 BC.” At the ‘Seleucid Study Day’, University of Exeter, UK.
10/06/2011 “Die Eliten von Ankyra und Pessinus in römischer Zeit: Quellenlage und offene Fragen”
(‘The Elites of Ancyra and Pessinous in the Roman Period: Sources and Open
Questions’). At the conference of the Research Network on Local Elites in the
Hellenistic and Roman Empires, Universität Erlangen, Germany (via Skype).
19/02/2011 "Die Tetrarchie als hellenistisch-römisches Herrschaftsinstrument" (‘The Tetrarchy as a
Means of Rule in the Hellenistic and Roman World‘). At the conference ‘Client
Kingdoms‘, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, FU Berlin.
11/12/2010 (with David Engels, Brussels/Kyle Erickson, Lampeter): “Construction of Seleucid
Royalty: Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of Antiochus I.” At the Workshop:
Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic Scholarship, Waterloo Institute for
Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo.
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04/11/2010 "Neue Forschungen zum Kaiserkult in Galatien" (‘New Research on the Imperial Cult in
Galatia’). At the Conference: Der Beitrag Kleinasiens zur Kulturgeschichte,
Kleinasiatische Kommission an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Vienna.
15/07/2010 "Bürgerrechtsverleihungen in der griechisch-römischen Welt. Eine systematische
Annäherung" (‘Grants of Citizenship in the Graeco-Roman World. A Systematic
Approach’). SFB 600, University of Trier.
02/07/2010 "Citizenship in the Context of Law, Culture, Politics, and Society: the Construction of
Romanness in Cicero’s Archiana." At the conference: Integration and Identity in the
Roman Republic, University of Manchester.
26/06/2010 "Demographie und Fremdenrechte im klassischen Altertum" (‘Demography and
Foreigners’ Rights in Classical Antiquity’). At a workshop of the Collaborative Research
Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
12/05/2010 "Deconstructing a Myth of Seleucid History: the So-Called ‘Elephant Victory’ over the
Galatians Revisited." At the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada,
Université Laval, Québec.
06/05/2009 "Galatian Identity and La Tène Objects in Asia Minor." Dept. of Archaeology and the
Migration Network, University of Exeter.
12/03/2009 "New Work on Hellenistic and Roman Galatia. Terror Gallicus, Keltensieg, and
Conflicting Perceptions of the Galatians." Dept. of Classical Studies, University of
Wales, Lampeter.
A similar talk was given in the Department of Roman History, Université Libre de
Bruxelles (18/05/2010), Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter
(10/06/2009).
15/11/2008 "Annäherungen an die galatischen Eliten in hellenistischer Zeit" (‘Approaching the
Galatian Elite in the Hellenistic Period’). At the 3rd Meeting of the Research Network
‘Eliten unter den hellenistischen Königen’, Dept. of Ancient History, Universität zu
Köln.
22/08/2008 "Belonging and Isolation in Central Anatolia: the Galatians in the Graeco-Roman
World." At the Hellenistic Workshop ‘Belonging and Isolation’, University of Waterloo.
18/08/2008 "Galatian Place Names Revisited: Intercultural Toponomastics in Central Asia Minor
and Galatian History." At the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS
XXIII), York University, Toronto.
16/07/2008 "Galatians and Seleukids: a Century of Conflict and Cooperation." At the conference:
‘Seleukid Dissolution. The Sinking of the Anchor’, University of Exeter.
15/05/2008 "Pseudo-Xenophon: ein ‚Alter Oligarch’? Die Athenaion politeia auf dem Prüfstand"
(‘Pseudo-Xenophon: an Old Oligarch? The Athenaion politeia Revisited’). Dept. of
Ancient History, University of Göttingen.
18/04/2008 "Großzügige Praxis der Bürgerrechtsvergaben in Rom? Zwischen Mythos und
Wirklichkeit". (‘Were the Romans Generous in Conveying Their Citizenship?
Inbetween Myth and Reality’). At the Colloquia Academica, Mainzer Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.
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19/12/2007 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zu ‘kaiserfrommen’ Reichsbewohnern. Schlaglichter auf die
Stammesbildung der Galater und ihren Einschluß in die griechisch-römische Welt (3.
Jh. v.–2. Jh. n.Chr.)" (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Devoted Subjects to the Emperor.
New Perspectives on the Ethnogenesis of the Galatians and Their Inclusion in the
Graeco-Roman World, 3rd cent. BC–AD 2nd cent.’). Public Paper ending the procedure
of ‘Habilitation’, University of Trier.
Similar papers were given in the Dept. of Ancient History, University of Rostock
(11/07/2007), and the Dept. of History, University of Bremen (09/07/2007)
20/10/2007 "Der Ankyraner Kaiserkult und die Transformation galatischer und phrygischgalatischer Identitäten in Zentralanatolien im Spiegel der Münzquellen" (‘The Emperor
Cult of Ancyra and the Transformation of Galatian and Phrygio-Galatian Identities in
Central Anatolia According to the Numismatic Evidence’). At the conference: Zwischen
Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen zwischenstaatlicher Beziehungen in
der griechisch-römischen Welt. SFB 600, University of Trier.
19/10/2007 "Freundschaften, persönliche Nahverhältnisse und das Imperium Romanum"
(‘Friendships, Interpersonal Relations, and the Roman Empire’). Introduction to the
homonymous panel of the above-mentioned conference.
29/09/2007 "Bericht aus dem Fortgang der Forschungen zu den Galatern" (‘Intermediate Report
on Galatian Studies’). At the 2nd Meeting of the Research Network ‘Eliten unter den
hellenistischen Königen’, Dept. of Ancient History, University of Frankfurt/Main.
17/05/2007 "The So-Called ius migrandi and Other Rights of the Latins in Republican Rome
Revisited". At the conference: ‘Insiders and Outsiders in Greece and Rome,’
Gregynog/University of Wales.
27/04/2007 "Herrschaftsform, Herrschaftswechsel und Inklusionsverhalten. Eine Projektskizze des
Arbeitskreises ‘Zugehörigkeitsrechte’" (Typology of Political Constitution, Change of
Government, and Modes of Inclusion. A Design for a Project of the Study Group
‘Participation Rights’’). At a workshop of the Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600,
University of Trier.
20/09/2006 "Das antike Galatien und die prägende Kraft der Bilder" (‘Ancient Galatia and the
Impact of Images’). At the Habilitandenforum of the 46th Deutscher Historikertag,
Konstanz.
22/07/2006 "Galatische Dynasten im Spannungsfeld zwischen Autonomiebestrebungen, Herrschaftsansprüchen hellenistischer Könige und römischer Hegemonialmacht" (‘Galatian
Dynasts and the Conflicts Resulting from Their Desire for Autonomy, the Ambitions of
Hellenistic Kings, and the Roman Hegemony’). At the 1st Meeting of the Research
Network Eliten unter den hellenistischen Königen, Cologne.
23/06/2006 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zur ‘romfreundlichen’ Ordnungsmacht – Die Galater in
hellenistischer und frührömischer Zeit" (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Custodians of
Roman Peace. The Galatians in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods’. Dept. of
Ancient History, University of Göttingen.
05/05/2006 "Auf des Rechtes Schneide: Ausschluß und Vertreibung zwischen Gesetz, Verfahren
und sozialer Praxis" (‘Legally Precarious Balance: Exclusion and Expulsion with Regard
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30/09/2005
30/09/2005
11/02/2005
25/10/2004
09/07/2004
27/02/2004
06/12/2003
06/12/2003
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to Law, Procedure, and Social Practice’). Introduction to the homonymous workshop.
Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
"Bürgerrechtsentzug oder Fremdenausweisung? Reaktionen auf die Immigration nach
Rom von 187 bis 173 v.Chr." (‘Withdrawal of Citizenship or Expulsion of Foreigners?
Reactions to the Immigration to Rome, 187–173 BC’). At the same workshop.
"Kelten und Phryger im hellenistischen und römischen Kleinasien. Ein (langwieriger)
Ethnogeneseprozeß im Spiegel der Personennamen aus Galatien" (‘Celts and
Phrygians in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. A Prolonged Process of Ethnogenesis
According to the Personal Names from Galatia’). At a meeting in commemoration of
Herrmann Bengtson, Wuppertal/Germany.
"Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik – Network for Intercultural Onomastics." At the 22nd
International Congress for Onomastic Sciences (ICOS XXII), Pisa.
"Intercultural Onomastics and Some Patterns of Socio-Political Inclusion in the GraecoRoman World. The Example of Galatia in Asia Minor." At the same conference. A
similar paper had been given on the Second Round Table on Intercultural Onomastics:
Recent Research on Celtic, Greek, Iberian, Norman, and Roman Contact Names in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Network for Intercultural Onomastics, University of
Trier (12/02/2005).
with Jürgen Zeidler: "Personennamen zwischen den Kulturen. Was ist Interferenzonomastik und was kann sie leisten?" (‘Personal Names in the Midst of Cultural
Contact: What is Intercultural Onomastics, and Which Results Does It Promise’). At the
same workshop.
"Some Foreign Friends of Late Republican Rome. With an Introduction to the
Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion
and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day’." Anc. Hist. Dept, Macquarie
University, Sydney.
"Deiotarus amicus populi Romani." At the workshop: Roms auswärtige Freunde in der
späten Republik. Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
"Civitas Romana und die Inklusion von Fremden in die römische Republik am Beispiel
des Bundesgenossenkrieges" (‘Roman Citizenship and the Inclusion of Strangers in the
Roman Republic: the Case of the Civil War’). At the conference: Recht, Religion und
Versorgungskrisen. Wandel von Inklusion und Exklusion Fremder und Armer von der
Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Collaborative Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
"Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik (NIO) and Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Strangers and
Poor People’ (SFB 600): Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Cooperation." At the Round
Table on Interference and Interculturalisation in Onomastics, Network for
Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), Classics Centre, Oxford.
"Research in Interferenzonomastik." At the Round Table on Interference and
Interculturalisation in Onomastics, Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO),
Classics Centre, Oxford.
"‘Cover Names’ and Nomenclature in Late Roman Gaul. The Evidence of the Bordelaise
Poet Ausonius." At the Annual Meeting of the Society for Onomastics and Kinship
Studies, Deutsches Historisches Institut (DHI), Paris.
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28/06/2001 "Imperial Constitutions, Chronology and Prosopography. Towards a New Methodology
for the Use of the Late Roman Law Codes." At the workshop Resourcing Sources IV,
Unit for Prosopographical Research, Oxford.
06/06/2001 "Imperial Constitutions and Chronology of Late Antiquity. On the Allocation of
Responsibility in Late Roman Legislation." Roman Law Group, University College
London (UCL), London, UK.
08/05/2001 "The Rise of the Gens Ausoniana. Origins, Pinnacle, and Persistence of a Gallic Family."
Late Roman Seminar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
I. TEACHING
1) Formal Classroom Teaching
FT = Fall Term, WT = Winter Term, ST = Spring Term (= Trinity Term); one term = 12 weeks
WS = Winter Semester, SS = Summer Semester; one semester = 15 or 16 weeks
a) Courses Taught at the University of Waterloo (3 hrs./week, unless stated otherwise)
Assigned WT 2017 CLAS 486 / 600 Senior / Graduate Seminar: tba
Assigned WT 2017 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
Assigned FT 2016 LAT 331/490/600 Advanced / Senior / Graduate Latin: Cicero, Pro lege Manilia
de imperio Cn. Pompei (66 BC)
Assigned FT 2016 CLAS 352 Advanced Roman History: Transformation of the Later Roman Empire
WT 2016 CLAS 486 / 600 Senior Seminar: Late Antiquity
WT 2016 CLAS 251 = HIST 251 Greek History
FT 2015 CLAS 202 Roman Social History
FT 2015 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
WT 2015 LAT 490/600 Roman Legal Writings
WT 2015 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
FT 2014 CLAS 352 Rome & Conquest of the Hellenistic World
FT 2014 LAT 331/490 Cicero, Pro M. Caelio
WT 2014 LAT 490/691 The Roman Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean – Select Readings
from Livy, Books 31-45
WT 2014 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
FT 2013 CLAS 486 Senior Seminar: Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
FT 2013 LAT 331/490 Senior Latin: Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta
WT 2013 CLAS 691 Special Topics: Transformations of the Later Roman State (2 hrs./week)
WT 2013 LAT 490/691 Cicero, Pro lege Manilia de imperio Cn. Pompei (66 BC)
WT 2013 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
WT 2012 CLAS 352 Advanced Studies in Roman History: Rome and the Control of the Hellenistic
World (229-020 BC)
WT 2012 LAT 331/491 Advanced Studies in Latin (Prose) / Senior Studies in Latin (Selected
Topics): Select Readings from Caesar
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FT 2011
FT 2011
WT 2011
WT 2011
WT 2011
FT 2010
FT 2010
WT 2010
WT 2010
FT 2009
FT 2009
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LAT 101 Introductory Latin 1
CLAS 655 Roman Frontiers and Provinces (2 hrs./week)
CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
LAT 102 Introductory Latin 2
CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
LAT 331/491 Advanced Studies in Latin (Prose) / Senior Studies in Latin (Selected
Topics): Livy, Ab Urbe Condita - Select Readings
LAT 101 Introductory Latin 1
CLAS 351 Advanced Studies in Greek History : After Alexander: The Struggle for Power
in the Hellenistic World (323-30 BC)
CLAS 486 Senior Seminar: Intercultural Processes: the Galatians in the Ancient World
LAT 490 Senior Latin: Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta
CLAS 691 Kings and Emperors as Gods: Political, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of the
Ruler-Cult in the Classical World (MA) (2 hrs./week)
CLAS 252/HIST 252 Roman History
b) Course Co-Taught with Professor Stephen Mitchell / Professor Daniel Ogden, University of
Exeter
WS 2008/9 MA Core Module Hellenistic Culture (I taught 3.5 classes of 3 hrs)
c) Courses Taught in the Department of Ancient History, University of Trier
SS 2008 Civitas Romana: Die Geschichte von Bürger- und Fremdenrechten im antiken Rom
(‘The History of Citizens’ and Foreigners’ Rights in Ancient Rome’) (lecture, 2
hrs/week)
WS 2007 Römischer Imperialismus – Republik und frühe Kaiserzeit (‘Roman Imperialism –
Republic and Early Empire’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2007 Augustus und der frühe Prinzipat (‘Augustus and the Early Principate’) (proseminar, 2
hrs/week)
WS 2006 Alexander der Große und die Anfänge der hellenistischen Welt (‘Alexander the Great
and the Beginning of the Hellenistic World’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2006 Thukydides, Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges (‘Thucydides, History of the
Peloponnesian War’) (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2005 Das Römische Reich in der Spätantike (‘The Later Roman Empire’) (proseminar, 2
hrs/week)
WS 2005 Verfassungstypologien bei Herodot, Platon, Aristoteles und Polybios (‘Constitutional
Typologies in the Works of Herodotus, Platon, Aristotle, and Polybius’) (practical unit, 2
hrs/week)
SS 2005 Die Römische Republik im Zeitalter der Bürgerkriege (‘The Roman Republic in the Times
of the Civil Wars’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2005 Caesar, De bello civili (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2004 Paulinus von Pella, Eucharisticos (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2004 Sueton, Divus Iulius (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
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WS 2003 Der Fremde in den Reden Ciceros (‘The Alien in the Orations of Cicero’) (practical unit,
2 hrs/week)
SS 2003 Caesar, De bello Gallico (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2002 Cicero, Pro lege Manilia de imperio Cn. Pompei (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2002 Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro (practical unit, 1 hr/week)
SS 2001 Die Rechtskodifizierung unter den Kaisern Diocletian, Theodosius und Justinian.
Hintergründe, Methoden und Auswirkungen (‘The Codification of Law under the
Emperors Diocletian, Theodosius and Justinian’) (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
d) Courses Co-Taught with Professor Heinz Heinen, Department of Ancient History, University of
Trier
*(i.e. seminar for advanced students, ca. 4th year) **(i.e. seminar for advanced and Ph.D.
students)
SS 2005 Themen und Texte der Alten Geschichte (as SS 2002, but 2 hrs/week)**
WS 2004 Althistorisches Projekt- und Doktorandenkolloquium (as SS 2004, but 2 hrs/week)**
SS 2004 Projektkolloquium zu Quellen und Forschungen (‘seminar related to [Greek] sources
and current research’, 1 h/week)**
SS 2003 Kolloquium (as SS 2002, 1 h/week)**
SS 2003 Caesars Gallischer Krieg (‘Caesar’s Gaulish War’) (2 hrs/week)*
WS 2002 Kolloquium (as SS 2002, 1 h/week)**
WS 2002 Römische Außenpolitik im Zeitalter der späten Republik (‘Roman Foreign Policy in the
Late Republic’) (2 hrs/week)*
SS 2002 Kolloquium für Doktoranden, Magistranden, Examenskandidaten und Fortgeschrittene
(1 h/week)**
e) Course Taught in the Faculty of Modern History, Oxford University
ST 2001 Paulinus of Pella, Eucharisticos (Latin poetry for PhD candidates, 2 hrs/week)
f) Latin Courses, Taught in the Department of Classics, University of Trier
WS 1999 Cicero, De re publica (Latinum III, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1999 Latinum II (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1998 Latinum I (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1998 Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium (Latinum IV, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1997 Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes (Latinum III, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1997 Latinum II (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1996 Latinum I (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
2) Supervision of Advanced Students
a) Supervision of Graduate Students at UW (2009-2014):
as of FT 2015: Andrew Kim (BA Waterloo ON): Reception of Roman Political Theory by the
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Founding Fathers.
FT 2014-FT 2015: Tanner Rudnick (BA Waterloo ON): Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro (MA Thesis). Tanner
was awarded a SSHRC MA scholarship for 2014/15.
FT 2013-present: Brett Bartlett (BA Waterloo ON): Perspectives on Roman Imperialism in Cicero’s
De lege Manilia (MA Thesis). Brett was awarded a SSHRC MA scholarship for 2013/14. Brett
presented a research paper on the representation of the Galatians in Livy at the Galatian
Workshop at Waterloo (March 2014, paper in preparation for my volume on Galatian history)
and another paper on Cicero’s Maniliana at the Graduate Workshop at Waterloo (May 2014),
which he co-organized. See also undergraduate supervision.
FT 2013-ST 2015: Del John Houle (BA Nipissing ON): Recruitment Practices and Ethnic Identities in
the Seleucid Army (MA Thesis). DJ was awarded a SSHRC MA scholarship for 2013/14. He
presented on his research project at Graduate Workshop at Waterloo (May 2014), which he coorganized, further at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada (Montreal, May
2014) and at the VIII Celtic Conference of Classics (Edinburgh, June 2014, paper accepted for
publication by the volume eds., volume currently under peer review). Another of his thesis
chapters was presented at Seleukid Study Day V (Brussels, August 2015, paper in preparation for
publication). DJ defended his thesis in June 2015 and was admitted into the PhD Program of
Classical Studies at McMaster as of Sep. 2015.
FT 2012-ST 2013: Lukas Lemcke (BA Waterloo ON): The Cursus Publicus in the Later Roman Empire.
He wrote the articles Codex Theodosianus (with me) and Sirmondian Constitutions for the
Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (with the press). He held a paper that highlights the changes
of the imperial information and transportation system from the High Empire to Late Antiquity at
the Shifting Frontiers X conference (Ottawa, March 2013), a written version will be published in
the proceedings. Lukas defended his MA Thesis in Sep. 2013. An extended version went through
peer review as a monograph for the Collection Latomus in 2015, and is scheduled to be printed
in Jan. 2016. He was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship and started his PhD studies at
Cologne University, Germany, in Oct. 2013. He was nominated for the UW Alumni Gold Medal in
2013. He also was my part-time RA with main responsibility for digital file processing. For further
publications, see below b).
FT 2011-ST 2013: Ryan Walsh (BA Waterloo ON): Gallo-Roman Relations under the Early Empire –
How Roman Prejudice Shaped the History of Gaul. Ryan gained credit for technical support of
the database projects Amici populi Romani and Genealogical Tables of the Graeco-Roman World
in spring 2012. He gave a splendid talk on the long-term effect of the usurpation of Vindex in
Roman Gaul in AD 68 at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, London, May
2012. He also gave a compelling paper on Galatian queens at Seleucid Study Day IV at McGill
University (Feb. 2013) and at the Galatian Workshop at Waterloo (March 2014). Ryan defended
his MA Thesis in June 2013, was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship and admitted into the
PhD Program at McMaster in Sep. 2013.
FT 2011-FT 2012: Brandy Nault worked on ‘The Impact of the Imperial Cult on Early Christianity’.
Service on further graduate student committees (Classical Studies, UW, unless stated otherwise):
WT 2015-ST 2015: Aaron Bolarinho: The Reception of Vegetius and Frontinus in Geremia da
Montagnone’s Compendium Moralium Notabilium (c.1310), Wilfried Laurier University.
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ST 2014: Stacy Reda: Interregnum: Queen Regency in the Seleucid Empire (MA Thesis defended in
Aug. 2014).
WT 2012-ST 2013: Dan Attrell: Dionysian Semiotics: Mycolatry and Shamanism in the Myths and
Rituals of the Phrygian Mother (MA Thesis defended in Aug. 2013).
FT 2011-FT 2012: Nizar Ghazal (at Wilfrid Laurier University): Olea Europaea: Methods of Olive Oil
Processing and the Mycenaean Oil Trade in the Late Bronze Age Levant (MA Thesis defended in
May 2013)
FT 2011-WT 2013: Jonathan Shen: A Preliminary Prosopography of Hellenistic Rhodes (MRP
accepted in Apr. 2013)
FT 2010-ST 2012: Laura Roncone: MA Thesis on Late Roman Demography (defended in Aug. 2012)
WT 2010: Sean Irvin (at the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo): MArch Thesis on the
Roman Tabellarium (defended in Jan./Feb. 2010).
Further Collaboration with Graduate and Doctoral Students:
As of summer 2015: PhD committee member for Germain Payen, Université Laval, thesis title: Les
conséquences du traité d’Apamée en Asie Mineure.
As of July 2013: PhD advisor to Ben McIntosh, National University, Canberra, Australia, thesis title:
The Freedom of Action of Rome's Allied Kingdoms in the Late Republic.
FT-2012 to FT 2015: Organization of Seleukid Study Day IV: Seleukid Royal Women at McGill
University; co-editing of the proceedings as a Historia Einzelschrift (expected by spring 2016);
maintenance
of
Seleukid
Study
Group
Homepage
(http://www.seleucidgenealogy.com/ssg.html) with Alex McAuley. He successfully defended his PhD (supervised by
Hans Beck) at McGill University in Nov. 2015 and is lecturer at the University of British Colombia
since Sep. 2015.
Oct. 2011-Feb. 2012 and Jan.-Feb. 2013: Monica d’Agostini, visiting PhD student at UW from Milan
and Bologna: collaboration on Seleucid dynastic intermarriage; she contributed to Seleucid
Study Days I-IV, see below.
WT 2010-ST 2012: April Ross, BA Waterloo 2011, MA Oxford 2012, PhD student Toronto since
2012: co-production of four maps on Ancient Galatia, published in Gephyra 9, 2012, 51-68; see
above, D. 5) d).
b) Supervision of Undergraduate Students at UW
Undergraduate Honours Thesis Supersivion:
FT 2013-ST 2014: Tanner Rudnick: Commentary on Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro. See also below.
WT-FT 2012: Brett Bartlett: Justin’s Epitome. The Unlikely Adaptation of Trogus’ World History. His
revised thesis was published in Histos 8, 2014, 264-283. A further result of our work is the
conference contribution The Fate of Kleopatra Tryphaina, or: Poetic Justice in Justin (presented
at Seleucid Study Day IV: Seleucid Royal Women, McGill University, Feb. 2013; the volume went
through peer review in 2015 and will be printed in 2016). Brett was repeatedly placed in the
Sight Competitions of the Classical Association of Canada: 1st (Junior Latin) in 2011, 1st (Senior
Latin) and 1st (Junior Greek) in 2012, 3rd (Senior Latin) and 2nd (Senior Greek) in 2013.
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FT 2011-WT 2012: Lukas Lemcke: The Imperial Information and Transportation System in the High
Empire. We have co-authored the article ‘Users and Issuers of Permits of the Imperial
Information and Transportation System in the 1st Century CE’ (Latomus 72, 2013, 1034-1054). I
further supervised Lukas’ article ‘Status Identification on the Road: Requisitioning of Travel
Resources by Senators, Equestrians, and Centurions without diplomata. A Note on the
Sagalassus Inscription (SEG XXVI, 1392)’ (Gephyra 9, 2012, 137-151). Among his many
distinctions, I single out the Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Classical Studies by the
Classical Association of the Middle, West and South (2011).
Independent Study Supervision:
Tanner Rudnick: ST 2012: LAT 491: Independent Study: Livy on Galatian History and the Bellum
Antiochicum. Tanner scored 2nd in Junior Latin (2012) and 3rd in the Junior Greek (2013) Sight
Competition of the Classical Association of Canada.
Supervision of undergraduate assistants at UW:
As of Mar. 2015: Emily Orocz, 3rd-4th year, part-time RA: website design and file processing.
As of Mar. 2015: Rifat Syed, 3rd-4th year, part-time RA: library proxy and file processing.
Oct.-Dec. 2014: Brittany Winterkorn, 3rd year, part-time RA: library support.
Oct. 2014-Apr. 2015: James Massia, 3rd year, part-time RA: scanning and file processing.
Jan.-Apr., Oct.-Dec. 2014: Wen Wei Koh, 4th year (Maths), part-time RA: file processing.
Jan.-Apr. 2014: Mitchell Elvidge, 4th year, part-time RA: file processing.
Nov.-Apr. 2013: Ilyas Ashirov, 3rd year, part-time RA: production of genealogical tables.
Apr. 2013-June 2014: Andrew Noakes, 3rd year, part-time RA: scanning and file processing.
Apr. 2013-June 2014: Emma Jennings, 2nd-3rd year, part-time RA: file editing, work on archaeology
of Galatia.
Nov. 2012-Apr. 2014: Sydney Pinchbeck, 4th -5th year, part-time RA: library proxy.
Sep. 2012-Aug. 2014: Tanner Rudnick, 4th-5th year, part-time RA: maintenance of the website of the
Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies ( service for WIHS until Apr. 2013); development of
my database projects APR: http://amicipopuliromani.com; English language editing; translation
from German into English.
June 2012-June 2015: Marina Gallagher, 1st-4th-year, part-time RA: bibliographical support, file
editing.
May-Dec. 2013: Katrina Vandervoort, 4th-5th year, part-time RA: website support.
May 2012-Dec. 2013: Andrew Kim, 2nd-4th-year, part-time RA: bibliographical support, scanning
and file processing.
March 2011-Aug. 2012: Lukas Lemcke, 4th-5th year, part-time RA: digital archive, bibliographical
support, scanning and file processing.
Feb. 2011-Aug. 2012: Bashar Jabbur, 3rd-4th year, OWS part time RA: in charge of the technical and
aesthetic improvements of the WIHS website.  See J. (service for WIHS)
Oct. 2011-Apr. 2012: Palak Patel, 4th year, OWS part time RA: scanning and file processing.
FT 2011, WT 2013: Brett Bartlett, 4th year, part-time RA: bibliographical support, scanning and file
processing; 5th year part-time TA for a class on Cicero, Pro lege Manilia.
WT-ST 2011: Ryan Walsh, 5th year, part-time RA: IT support; technical enhancement of the
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aforementioned databases; see also above, a).
Mar.-June 2011: Adele Robert, 2nd year, part-time RA: bibliographical support.
WT 2010: Louise Frost, 2nd year, Co-op Student: design of website of the Waterloo Institute for
Hellenistic Studies service for WIHS
FT 2009-ST 2011: April Ross, 4th-5th year, part-time RA: bibliographical support; preparation of
historical maps of Ancient Galatia; see above, a).
c) Work with Advanced Students at the University of Trier (2002-08/10)
During my term as research associate (2002-2008), I assisted Prof. Heinz Heinen in the supervision
of 3 graduate and 1 PhD theses. Moreover, by individual tuition and common readings of ancient
sources, I led five of my part-time research assistants to their first publications. These add up to 6
research articles (2 co-authored with myself), 78 encyclopaedic articles, indexes to 3 edited
volumes, 2 conference reports, plus support as to the peer-reviewed publication of a PhD.
Christmann, Kathrin: Ptolemaios XII. von Ägypten, Freund des Pompeius, in: Altay Coşkun (ed.):
Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005, 113126.
Christmann, Kathrin: 7 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR) in 2005.
Kathrin Zoeller (born Christmann) is a tenured high school teacher in the Palatinate, Germany.
Lamberty, John: Amicus Caesaris. Der Aufstieg des L. Cornelius Balbus aus Gades, in: Altay Coşkun
(ed.): Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005,
155-173.
Lamberty, John: 35 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR) in 2005.
John Lamberty was hired as a tenured journalist in Luxemburg (Luxemburger Wort) in 2008.
Prantl, Henrik: Zusammenfassung der Beiträge zur Tagung: Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer
Verehrung Formen und Wandel grenzüberschreitender Zugehörigkeit in der Antike, Universität
Trier 2007: URL: www.sfb600.uni-trier.de//filebase/A2/Tagungsbericht.pdf.
Prantl, Henrik: Artavasdes II. – Freund oder Feind der Römer?, in: Altay Coşkun (ed.): Freundschaft
und Gefolgschaft in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der Römer (2. Jh. v.Chr. – 1. Jh. n.Chr.),
Frankfurt/M. 2008, 91-108.
Prantl, Henrik: 9 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR 02) in 2008.
Prantl, Henrik: 2 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR 03) in 2010.
Prantl, Henrik: Registers to Altay Coşkun/Heinz Heinen/Stefan Pfeiffer (eds.): Repräsentation von
Identität und Zugehörigkeit im Osten der griechisch-römischen Welt, Frankfurt/M. 2009, 227243.
Prantl, Henrik/Schwerdtner, Katrin: Registers to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Freundschaft und Gefolgschaft
in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der Römer (2. Jh. v.Chr. – 1. Jh. n.Chr.), Frankfurt/M. 2008, 241261.
Henrik Prantl was hired by a publishing house in Dortmund in 2012.
Schwerdtner, Katrin/Coşkun, Altay: Von Freunden und gottgleichen Herrschern. Tagungsbericht:
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Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung in der Antike, H-Soz-u-Kult 13.02.2008.
URL: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=1872.
Katrin Schwerdtner is now PhD student at Trier University (supervised by Prof. Stefan Busch).
Tröster, Manuel/Coşkun, Altay: Zwischen Freundschaft und Gefolgschaft. Vergleichende
Beobachtungen zu den Außenbeziehungen des Römischen Reiches und der Vereinigten Staaten
von Amerika, GFA 6, 2003, 67-95.
Tröster, Manuel/Coşkun, Altay: Amerika auf den Spuren Roms? Zum Thema der Freundschaft in
den Außenbeziehungen der Vereinigten Staaten und des Römischen Reiches, GWU 55.9, 2004,
486-501.
Tröster, Manuel: Lucullus, His Foreign Amici, and the Shadow of Pompey, in: Altay Coskun (ed.):
Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005, 91111.
Tröster, Manuel: Registers to Altay Coşkun (Hg.): Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik
und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005, 278-300.
Tröster, Manuel: 25 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR) in 2005 and
2007.
Cf. also the reference to Coşkun in the preface of Manuel Tröster’s published PhD: Themes,
Character, and Politics in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus. The Construction of a Roman Aristocrat,
Stuttgart 2008.
After a postdoctoral fellowship of the DAAD spent at Coimbra, Portugal, Manuel Tröster became
Program Coordinator at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria .
3) Other Relevant Teaching Information
For the organization of workshops and conferences involving students, most of which also involve
students, see above (G.) and below (J.).
I ran various reading groups for advanced students and contributed to a variety of lecture series.
J. OTHER ACADEMIC AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
Over the past years, I have predominantly been dedicated to creating and developing international
and interdisciplinary research networks that involve established scholars, young researchers and
advanced students from the undergraduate level onwards. My initiatives include the Seleukid
Study Group, networks on Galatia and Asia Minor, as well as networks on Greco-Roman dynasties,
Roman diplomacy and Black Sea Studies.
1) Service to the Department of Classical Studies, UW
2014 Sep.-present
Academic Affairs: organization of departmental guest lectures and workshops, including the
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Graduate Workshop “Methods of Asia Minor Studies” (with Patrick Baker & Craig
Hardiman, 12 March 2015)
Library Liaison for Classical Studies
2015 June
Acting Chair (two weeks).
2014 WT
Organization of the International Graduate Workshop ‘Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor’
(Waterloo, 1-2 May) (with DJ Houle and Brett Bartlett)
Organization of the International Workshop ‘Recent Research on Ancient Galatia’ (Waterloo, 13-15
March)
2014 May, Nov.-Dec.
Acting Chair (three weeks)
2011 WT
Member of the Graduate Studies Admission Committee
2010 WT, ST
Book acquisitions for the departmental/WIHS collection.
Preparatory work for the digitization of the departmental/WIHS collection.
2009 ST
Preparations for an institutional partnership between the Department of Classical Studies and
WIHS at UW on the one hand, and the Department of Classics and Ancient History and
the Exeter Centre for Hellenistic and Romano-Greek Culture and Society at the
University of Exeter on the other.
2) Service to the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS) and the Seleucid Study Group
2012 Dec.-2013 July Interim Director of WIHS
Main duties included representation and correspondence, fundraising with Arts Advancement,
program co-ordination with the Steering Committee.
2009 Aug.-2013 Sep. Steering Committee Member of WIHS
2010 Jan.-2013 Aug. Design, Development, Supervision of WIHS Website
(http://www.wihs.uwaterloo.ca)
2012-2012 Updates and further improvements with RA Tanner Rudnick
2011-2012 Production of 3rd version of the website with RA Bashar Jabbour
2011 Dec. Official appointment as Website Supervisor
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2011 (WT) Production of first drafts of templates for the WIHS newsletter 1 (with RA Valerie
Broadbend and Brigitte Schneebeli, main responsibility: Riemer Faber).
2011 (WT) Initiation of 2nd version of WIHS website with RA Jashar Jabbour (work continued by
Craig Hardiman).
2010 (WT) Creation of 1st version of WIHS website and a portal for digital databases with co-op
student Louise Frost.
2011-present
Initiator and Coordinator of the Seleukid Study Group
For my activities as Coordinator of the Seleukid Study Group after July 2013, see above, G.
Conference Organization (with links to reports).
2013 Mar. Launch of Seleucid Study Bibliography together with Alex McAuley MA (McGill) and the
further support of David Engels (Brussels) and Kyle Erickson (Lampeter, UK):
http://seleucid-genealogy.com/ssg_bibliography.html.
2012 Oct. Launch of Seleucid Study Group website; main responsibility: Alex McAuley:
http://seleucid-genealogy.com/ssg.html.
2011 Nov.-present Seleucid Study Day IV: Seleucid Royal Women together with Alex McAuley
and Hans Beck; successful application for a UW HSS Grant (Apr./June 2012) and a
SSHRC Connection Grant (Oct. 2012/Jan. 2013). The conference was hosted at McGill
University, Montreal, Feb. 20-23, 2013 (19 papers); publication of proceedings in
preparation. Reports: H-Soz-u-Kult, 1 May 2013 (ca. 3.5 pp.); WIHS website (ca. 1 p. and
7 pp.); WIHS Newsletter 3, 2014.
2011 Aug.-2012 Sep. Assistance for the organization of Seleucid Study Day III: War within the
Family: A Reassessment of the First Century of Seleucid Rule, Bordeaux (5-7 Sep. 2012);
main convenor: Kyle Erickson. Reports: WIHS website; H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.10.2012.
2011 Nov. Seleucid Study Day II, Waterloo (9 Nov. 2011). Reports: WIHS newsletter 2, 2012; H-Sozu-Kult, 9.1.2012.
2011 Aug. Seleucid Study Day (I), co-organized with Stephen Mitchell, Exeter (15 Aug. 2011);
reports: WIHS newsletter 2, 2012; H-Soz-u-Kult, 27.10.2011.
2011-2013 Involvement in Further Conferences and Lecture Series Sponsored by WIHS
2010-2013 Nov. Conference “Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World during
Hellenistic and Roman periods.” Constanţa, Romania, 8-12 July 2013, with Victor
Cojocaru, Archaeological Institute of the Romanian Academy in Iaşi, and Gabriel
Custurea, Director of the National Museum of History and Archaeology, Constanţa (ca.
47 papers). (Publication of proceedings in Nov. 2014.)
2013 Jan. Workshop “Interstate Relations in Antiquity”, Waterloo, 8 Jan. 2013, co-organized with
Sheila Ager, as well as the support of Andrew Faulkner and RA Lukas Lemcke (5 papers;
production of a reader of some 170 pp.; one preparatory grad class on ancient IR, 3
hrs., in the fall of 2012).
2012 Jan. Contribution of one extended lecture (2 hrs.) on the Seleucid Empire to the Lecture
Series on the Hellenistic World (organizer: Sheila Ager) for the Third Age Learning Group
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(TAL).
2010 Dec. Coordination of workshop panel on Antiochus I with David Engels, Brussels, and Kyle
Erickson, Lampeter, started international and interdisciplinary cooperation on the
Seleucid Kingdom; two co-authored books on Antiochus are in preparation. Report in
WIHS newsletter 1, 2011.
3) Service to the Faculty of Arts and University of Waterloo
2013 Jan.-present
Departmental representative at the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW)
2013 June-2010 Nov.
Departmental representative at the Arts Faculty Council Executive (AFCE)
4) Service to the Scholarly Community
Organization of conferences or workshops (since 2003) have been listed above, section G.
For further editorial work (since 2004), see my List of Publications and Work in Progress.
Advisory Function for or Editorial Support to Scholarly Journals and Book Series
present-2013 Jan.
Member of the Editorial Team of Latomus (Journal for Latin Philology and
Roman History, Archaeology and Epigraphy), with responsibility for Gaul, Asia Minor,
Epigraphy, and Law. Director: David Engels, ULB, Brussels. My duties include advice on
the profile and organization of the journal; correspondence with authors and reviewers;
writing of reviews; checking of revisions by authors. URL: http://www.latomus.be/en
present-2013
Member of the Editorial Team of the book series Pontica et Mediterranea. Main
editor: Victor Cojocaru, Romanian Academy, Department of Archaeology, Iaşi Branch.
Publisher: Mega, Cluj-Napoca. Appointment for vols. 2ff. My duties include advice on
the profile and board of the series; translation or language editing for blurbs, prefaces
and other communications (German / English); requesting reviews. See my list of
publications.
present-2012 Sep.: Membre du comité scientifique de lecture of the journal Aitia – until now only
nominal. URL: http://aitia.revues.org/
present-2011 Sep.: Membro del comitato scientifico of the book series Diádema - Collana di Studi
di Storia Antica e Orientale diretta da Antonio Panaino e Federicomaria Muccioli – until
now only nominal. URL: http://www.mimesisedizioni.it/Diadema.html.
2007-present
Peer Review for Research Journals, Book Seriies and Granting Agencies
2015
Reviewer for Historia (2), Latomus (9 articles, 2 books), Russian Science Foundation (1).
2014
Reviewer for Latomus (6), Pontica et Mediterranea (1), TAPA (1).
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2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
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Reviewer for Latomus (5); Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium (2); Illinois Classical
Studies (1), contact: Antonios Augustakis.
Peer review for Latomus, contact: D. Engels (2); Romanian National Council for
Scientific Research, contact: F. Solomon, (2); Historia, contact: K. Brodersen (1);
Phoenix, contact: Michele George (1).
Peer review for Latomus, contact: C. Deroux & D. Engels (2); Journal of Ancient Egyptian
Interconnections, contact: R.H. Wilkinson, (1); Romanian National Council for Scientific
Research, contact: F. Solomon, (2).
Peer review for Historia, contact: M. Jehne (2); TAPA, contact: Katharina Volk (1);
Latomus, contact: C. Deroux & D. Engels (1).
Peer review for Historia, M. Jehne (2); Materiali e Discussioni, contact: R. Ferri (2).
Peer review for Anatolian Studies (1), contact: L. Vandeput.
5) Service to the University of Trier
2003 May-2014 Sep.
Co-Director (since 2009 Jan., 2003 May-2008 Dec. Director) of the study group on Foreigners’
Rights and Citizenship from Antiquity to the Present Day, SFB 600, University of Trier:
http://sfb600.uni-trier.de/?site_id=116&id=25. Our main goal was the production of a
handbook, which appeared in Sep. 2014. With 11 authors and several advisers involved,
a substantial amount of coordination and communication was required, for which I
bore the main responsibility together with Lutz Raphael.
2002 Aug.-2008 Dec. Administration of the research project The Foreign Friends of Rome, SFB
600, University of Trier, including
– most related communications (reports, requests, instructions, invitations etc.)
– the recruitment, training, and supervision of our RAs (on average, four students with
a work load of five hours per week were employed, with two new recruitments per
year)
– design and updating of website, with the technical support of Henrik Prantl
(http://www.sfb600.uni-trier.de/?site_id=108&
proj_id=4f394fe6c94fcbe67faee63c3a000b53&sitename=Startseite)
– production of 5 posters, contributions to Flyers (http://www.sfb600.unitrier.de/index.php?site_id=111) and brochures (e.g., http://www.sfb600.unitrier.de/filebase/Z/sfb_brosch_2009_web.pdf, pp. 9, 36f.).
K. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Since 2012 Apr.
Since 2010 Jan.
Since 2009 Oct.
Since 2008 Jan.
Member of the British Institute at Ankara
Member of the Classical Association of Canada
Member of the Association of Ancient Historians of America (AAH)
Member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
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Since 2006 Apr. Member of the ‘Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands’
(VHD), i.e. German Society of Historical Studies
Since 2005 Jan. Member of the ‘Mommsengesellschaft’, i.e. German Society of Classical Studies
2002 Apr.-2015 Member of the ‘DAAD Freundeskreis’, i.e. Circle of Friends of the German
Academic Exchange Service, Bonn
L. Research Teams and Networks
2014 June-present Adviser of the Center for Hellenistic Studies at the Dmitry Pozharsky University,
Moscow (contact: Prof. Dr. Oleg Gabelko)
2014 June-present Associate Member of the Melbourne Excavation Team of Pessinus (Director:
Prof. Dr. Gocha Tsetskhladze, Oxford University)
2013 July-present Advisor of the Epigraphic Survey Project in the Mihalıççık District, Galatia,
Turkey (Director: Dr. Hale Güney, Ipek University, Ankara; 1st campaign: 2014)
2013 June-present Collaborator within the Project Archaeological and Historical Atlas of Asia
Minor (Director: Dr. Hadrien Bru, Besançon)
2013-present
Associate Member of the Project ‘External Relations of the Pontic Greek Cities’
(Director: Dr. Victor Cojocaru, Archaeologial Institute at the Romanian Academy, Iaşi,
Romania)
2011 Aug.-present Initiator and Director of the Seleucid Study Group, Exeter – Waterloo –
Montreal – Brussels – Lampeter, ( see also J. Service, 2)
2009 July-present Member of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies
2009 Jan.-2012 Dec. Member of the International Research Network ‘Lokale Eliten in antiken
Großreichen’ (‘Local Élites in Ancient Empires’), directed by Professor Peter Franz Mittag
(Cologne) and Professor Boris Dreyer (Erlangen), funded by the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung, Bonn
2006 Jan.-2009 Dec. Member of the International Research Network ‘Lokale Eliten unter den
hellenistischen Königen’ (‘Local Élites under the Hellenistic Kings’), directed by Professor
Peter Franz Mittag (Cologne) and Dr. Boris Dreyer (Göttingen / Frankfurt)
(http://cgi.server.uni-frankfurt.de/fb08/bodreyer/index.html), funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn
2004 June-present Initiator and Director of the Network Amici Populi Romani, SFB 600, Trier, and
since 2009 Waterloo ON (APR)
2003 Dec.-2008 Dec. Initiator and Member of the Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO),
Trier and Oxford
2003 July-2014 Sep. Initiator and Director (since Jan. 2009 co-Director) of the Study Group for the
History of Citizenship and Foreigners’ Rights, SFB 600, Trier (Arbeitskreis
Zugehörigkeitsrechte)
2002 May-2014 Sep. Member of the Collaborative Research Centre Strangers and Poor People
(SFB 600), Trier
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