Anna Sitz, PhD
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Alte Geschichte Telefon: 06221-54 3722 |
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Marstallstr. 6
Raum 00.012a
69117 Heidelberg
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Archäologie der Spätantike in Kleinasien und Griechenland (4.-7.Jh.n.Chr.)
- Griechische Epigraphik
- Griechische und römische Heiligtümer in Kleinasien und Griechenland
- Frühchristliche Kirchen
- Byzantinisches Kappadokien (Türkei)
- Labraunda-Ausgrabung (Türkei)
Zur Person
- 1988 geb. in Little Rock, AR, USA. Staatsangehörigkeit: USA
Akademische Laufbahn
- 2019-23: Universität Heidelberg, Postdoc and Project Leader Research group SFB 933 (Materiale Textkulturen) and the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik. Subproject A01 UP1.
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2018-19: Universität Heidelberg, Wiss. Mitarbeiterin (research associate)
SFB 933. Research, teaching, and writing project proposal. - 2017-18: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin & Washington, D.C.
- 2016-17: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Guest researcher, Munich.
TEILPROJEKTLEITUNG BEI AUSGRABUNG
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seit 2017: Teilprojekt „Postclassical Labraunda,“ Labraunda Ausgrabung, Türkei
Akademischer Werdegang
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2017-Dec: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. -
2012: M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. -
2010: B.A., Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA.
University Scholars liberal arts degree, focus Classics and Art History.
Auszeichnungen und Stipendien
- 2018: DAAD Short Term Grant für das Wintersemester 2018, abgelehnt
- 2017: President Amy Gutmann Leadership Award, UPenn
- 2015-2016: Phi Beta Kappa Sibley Fellowhip, Jahresstipendium in Athen
- 2015: Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows, Penn Museum, gewählt als Junior Fellow
- 2015: Penn Museum Feldforschungsmittel, Sommer
- 2015: Penn Museum Colburn Fellowship, Semesterstipendium für einen Aufenthalt in Athen
- 2014: Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Mediterranean Regional Fellowship, Semesterstipendium für Aufenthalte in Griechenland, der Türkei und Ägypten
- 2014: Penfield Dissertation Research Fellowship, UPenn
- 2014: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Scholarship, für den Visualizing Venice Workshop in Digital Humanities
- 2013: Tousimis Third Prize for Graduate Student Paper, 2012 Byzantine Studies Conference (USA)
- 2012: Penn Museum Student Summer Research Grant für den "Contextualizing Cappadocia" Workshop (Türkei)
- 2011: A. G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship für die Medieval Greek Summer Session an der Gennadius Bibliothek, Athen
- 2010-11: Williams Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
- 2010: Outstanding Student, Classics Department, Baylor University
Archäologische Feldarbeit
Labraunda Ausgrabung
(Leitung: Olivier Henry. Caria, Muğla Provinz, Türkei)
- 2019 Teilprojektleiterin, Byzantine Necropolis excavation
- 2018 Teilprojektleiterin, Byzantine Necropolis excavation
- 2017 Teilprojektleiterin, Postclassical Olive Presses excavation near Built Tomb
- 2016 Teilnehmerin an der Roman East Bath excavation
- 2015 Assistant Supervisor in der Andron A excavation
Förderung für mein Teilprojekt:
- 2020/1 American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant
- 2019 Akmed Projekt Grant
- 2018 Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant
- 2017 Kolb Society Greenewalt Project Fund
Korinthos Ausgrabung
(Leitung: Guy Sanders. Corinthia, Griechenland)
- 2015 Trench Co-Supervisor in der Frankish Quarter cesspit excavation
Alabanda Ausgrabung
(Leitung: Suat Ateşlier. Karien, Aydın Provinz, Türkei)
- 2015 Sector Supervisor, spätantike und byzantinische Befunde im temenos des Apollo-Tempels
Philosophiana Archaeological Project Field Survey
(Leitung: Kimberly Bowes, Emanuele Vaccaro, Mariaelena Ghisleni und Gioacchino Francesco La Torre. Sofiana, Sizilien)
- 2011 Mitglied des extra-site Survey Teams
Veröffentlichungen
- Bevorstehende Veröffentlichung: “An Epigram for the Everyman? Strategies of Commemoration at a Cappadocian Tomb.” Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy 1, eds. Andreas Rhoby and Ida Toth. Brepols.
- Bevorstehende Veröffentlichung with Demet Delibaş: “The Tetraconch Necropolis: Middle Byzantine Labraunda.” To appear in the Labraunda Chronicles excavation report series.
- 2020: “Architectures of Surveillance: Houses and Stylites in the Northern Syrian ‘Dead Villages.’” In Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout, eds. Vasileios Marinis, Amy Papalexandrou, and Jordan Pickett (p. 19-33). Brepols.
- 2020 “Late Antique and Byzantine Caria.” In Karialılar, Denizcilerden Kent Kuruculara - The Carians, From Seafarers to City Builders, eds. Olivier C. Henry and Ayşe Belgin-Henry. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları (p. 62-77).
- 2019 “Beyond Spolia: A New Approach to Old Inscriptions in Late Antique Anatolia.” American Journal of Archaeology 123.4: 643-674.
- 2019 “Inscribing Caria: The Perseverance of Epigraphic Traditions in Late Antiquity.” In Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, eds. Stephen Mitchell and Philipp Pilhofer (p. 202-225). Brill.
- 2019 “Hiding in Plain Sight: Epigraphic Reuse in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias.” Journal of Late Antiquity 12.1: 136-168.
- 2019 “An Early Christian Cemetery at Labraunda: Report on the 2018 Excavation near the Tetraconch,” Section in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2018.” Preliminary season report: Anatolia Antiqua XXVII: 183-229.
- 2018 “Press Close to the Built Tomb,” Section 6.1 (p. 297-300) in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2017.” Preliminary season report. Anatolia Antiqua XXVI: 209-320. Open access at Labraunda.org.
- 2017 “’Great Fear:’ Epigraphy and Orality in a Byzantine Apse in Cappadocia.” Gesta 56.1: 5-26.
- 2016 “Andrôn A,” with O. Henry, Section 5.3 (p. 416-424) in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2015.” Preliminary season report. Anatolia Antiqua XXIV: 339-457. Open access at Labraunda.org.
- 2015 “Church,” “Corpse,” “Titulus,” “Vatican,” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, eds. Eric Orlin et al. Routledge.
Rezension
- 2019 K. Bolle, C. Machado and C. Witschel (eds), The Epigraphic Cultures of Late Antiquity. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2017. Review in the Journal of Roman Studies.
Manuskript in Vorbereitung
- Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Greek East.
Online-Berichte Open Access
- 2019 "Labraunda: Byzantine Necropolis Project, 2018 and 2019"
- 2018 "Inscribing Temples in Greece and Asia Minor: A Diachronic View." Fellowship report in the CHS Research Bulletin 6.1, August 2, 2018.
Gastvorträge
- 2020 "The Fate of Inscriptions on Pagan Temples: Tolerance, Reuse, Destruction." Classical Antiquity and Its Heritage Colloquium, Aarhus University, Denmark, December 4.
- 2019 "Christian Graves at a Pagan Sanctuary: Recent Research on Late Antique and Byzantine Labraunda (Turkey)." Byzantinische Archäeologie Sommerkolloquium, Universität Heidelberg, July 19
- 2019 "Classical and Classicizing Inscriptions: Labraunda and Its Regional Context in Late Antiquity." Archäologisches Kolloquium, Universität Marburg, Marburg, June 13
- 2019 "Labraunda in the Early Christian Period: Recreating an Epigraphic Landscape." Archaeology Colloquium, Uppsala University, Uppsala, April 24
- 2018 "Reading Local History: Inscriptions on Temples from Antiquity to Late Antiquity." Hauskolloquium, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, July 5
- 2018 "Inscribing Caria: The Perseverance of Epigraphic Traditions in Late Antiquity." Topoi Workshop "The Rise of Christianity in Asia Minor and on Cyprus." Humboldt University, Berlin, June 22
- 2018 "Alte Inschriften, neue Religion: Gedächtnis in Tempelkirchen." Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kustgeschichte Vorträge, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, June 19
- 2018 "Sacred Space, Epigraphic Display, and the Origins of Inscribing Temples in Greece and Asia Minor." Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, June 6
- 2018 "The Problem of Periodization: Pagan Sanctuaries in Late Antiquity." Byzantine Art Workshop, Brown University, Providence, April 14
- 2017 "Inscriptionsin Space (and Time): Late Antique Interaction with Older Epigraphy." Invited paper, University of Pennsylvania, April 9
- 2015 "Fear and Trembling: Epigraph and Viewer Response in a Byzantine Church in Cappadocia." Gennadius Library, Athens, February 12
- 2014 "Imprinting Identity: Individualizing Cappadocian Churches through Painted Inscriptions." Invited paper at Penn Museum Symposium "From Constantinople to Cappadocia," Philadelphia, April 13
Vorträge bei Workshops und Konferenzen
- 2020 "Epigraphic Erasures: ‘Grammatoclasm’ in Late Antiquity beyond Damnatio Memoriae." Erasure in Late Antiquity Workshop (Online), Trinity College Dublin, November 12-13.
- 2020 "Mutilation, Modification, Christianization? An Archaeological Approach to the Erasure of Inscriptions in Late Antiquity." Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2-5
- 2019 "Archive, Autopsy, and a Material-Text Approach: The Find Spots of Inscriptions at Labraunda." Labraunda Workshop, Istanbul, May 15
- 2019 "Late Antique Labraunda: Spolia, 'Unspolia,' and the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos." Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 3-6
- 2018 "Digging Byzantine and Frankish Trash: Material Culture from a Cesspit in Corinth (Greece)." Co-author Rossana Valente. Byzantine Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 5
- 2017 "Epigraphy and Oral Tradition: 'Seeing the Image' in Byzantine Cappadocia." International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Vienna, September 1
- 2017 "Writing on Temples: Epigraphic Habits of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods." AIA Annual Meeting, Toronto, January 6
- 2016 "Viewing the Past: Christian Responses to Pagan Temple Inscriptions in Late Antiquity." Byzantine Studies Conference, Ithaca, October 7
- 2016 "The 'Dead Villages' of Northern Syria: Surveillance and Security at Déhès." AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 8
- 2014 "Late Roman Epigraphy in the Forum Romanum: Fragments or Narrative?" Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), Waco, April 2-5
- 2014 "Reading the Program: A Reassessment of the Tokalı Kilise Donor Inscription." Jaharis Graduate Student Conference, Boston, February 27
- 2012 "From Mortuary Temple to Church: Memory and Appropriation in Upper Egypt." Byzantine Studies Conference, Boston, November 3
- 2011 "ΜΕΓΑΣ ΦΟΒΟΣ: The Role of Reverential Fear in a Majestas Domini Composition." Byzantine Studies Conference, Chicago, October 20
- 2009 "Motion and Time in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue." CAMWS, Minneapolis, April 2
Lehrveranstaltungen
Universität Heidelberg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik
- 2021 Summer: Proseminar Hellenistische Könige und Königinnen: Macht und Herrschaft von Alexander bis Kleopatra
- 2020/1 Winter: Proseminar Demokratie im Klassischen Athen
- 2020 Summer: Proseminar Kleinasien: Griechische Identität im multikulturellen Kontext
- 2019/20 Winter: Proseminar Kulte, Feste und Orakel: Griechische Heiligtümer in der Antike
- 2019/20 Winter: Quellenübung Late Antique Paganism
- 2019 Summer: Quellenübung Constantine the Great
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
- 2017: Organizer and Dozentin of seminar and Exkursion (research trip) to Pamphylia and Pisidia (Turkey) with Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer
Labraunda Ausgrabung
- 2017-19: Training students in field methodology.
Programme im Ausland
- 2016-2017 Exkursionen nach Kilikien, Zypern, und Pamphylien/Pisidien mit Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
- 2014-2016 Student associate member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. Site visits, research, and writing dissertation
- 2014 Visualizing Venice Workshop for Digital Humanities at Venice International University
- 2012 Cappadocia in Context summer program. Through Koç University. In Istanbul and Cappadocia, Turkey.
- 2011 Medieval Greek Summer Program, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- 2010 Summer Session, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Weitere Aktivitäten
- seit 2019: Peer reviewer für American Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Late Antiquity, and Gephyra
- seit 2018: Mitarbeit in den SFB 933-Themenfeldern zu "Sakralisierung" und "Layout, Form, Text-Image"
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Archaeological drawings in Autocad, basic proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and 3D modeling software.
Organizer of EpiDoc Workshop (digital epigraphy), Heidelberg (Nov. 28-29, 2019).
Sprachkenntnisse
Lesen: Altgriechisch, byzantinisches Griechisch, Lateinisch, Deutsch, Türkisch, Neugriechisch, Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch
Sprechen: Deutsch (C1), Türkisch (A2), Neugriechisch (A1), Spanisch (A1)
