PD Dr. Sabine Huebner studied History and Classics in Muenster, Rome, Berlin, Jena, and London, and received her Ph.D. (Ancient History) at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in 2005. She completed her Habilitation (Ancient History) at Freie Universitaet Berlin in November 2010 where she is teaching now as Privatdozentin of Ancient History. After finishing her PhD she has been a visiting research scholar at several institutions in the United States, Columbia University in New York, the University of California at Berkeley, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, of which she was a member in 2010. Since then, she won a 2-year research fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock and a 5-year Heisenberg grant of the German Research Foundation. She will spent the next two years as a visiting researcher at the College de France in Paris.
She has published widely and extensively. Among her books are a monograph on the clergy in the later Roman empire (Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spaetantiken Kleinasiens. Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag 2005), a co-edited volume on Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009), and a second monograph, a study on intergenerational solidarity in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean (The Family in Roman Egypt - A Comparative Approach to Solidarity and Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in 2012). Together with Geoffrey Nathan she is preparing an edited volume on "The Extended and Joint Family in the Ancient Mediterranean".
She has also published a number of articles in peer-reviewed international journals and volumes, including a recent study on family and succession strategies in the Graeco-Roman East, which offers a new explanation for apparent incestuous brother-sister marriages in Roman Egypt ("Brother-Sister’ Marriage in Roman Egypt: A Curiosity of Humankind or a Widespread Family Strategy?," Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007), 21-49) and a paper on female circumcision in ancient and modern Egypt ("Female Circumcision as Rite de Passage in Egypt - Continuity through the Millennia?," Journal of Egyptian History 2 (2009), 149-171). She has also contributed chapters to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Childhood and Eduction in the Ancient World (ed. Judith Evans-Grubbs and Tim Parkin, 2012) and the Blackwell Companion to the Ancient Family (ed. Beryl Rawson, 2010).
In addition, she is one of the four general editors of Blackwell's new 13-volume Encyclopedia of Ancient History which will cover the entire Mediterranean world, includes the Near East and Egypt, and spans from the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE. It is the first comprehensive reference work concentrating on ancient history and will cover the subject in unprecedented depth and breadth. It will range widely, from social and cultural to political, economic and intellectual history, and come out in a print- and an online-version in November 2011.
Lebenslauf
1995-2001 Studium der Klassischen Philologie, Geschichte und Paedagogik in Muenster und Rom
1999-2002 Student. und wissenschaftl. Hilfskraft im SFB "Funktionen von Religion in Gesellschaften des Vorderen Orients", Muenster
2001 Magister and 1. Staatsexamen in Muenster
2002-2005 Stipendiatin im DFG-GK "Leitbilder der Spaetantike", Jena
2003 Visiting Research Fellowship (DAAD) am University College London
2005 Promotion an der Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet Jena
2005 Visiting Research Fellowships an der University of California, Berkeley
2006-2009 Adjunct Assistant Professor an der Columbia University, New York
2007/8 Visiting Research Fellowship am Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
2010 Membership am Institut for Advanced Study, Princeton
2010 Habilitation an der Freien Universitaet Berlin
2010- Privatdozentin an der Freien Universitaet Berlin
2011-2012 Research Fellowship am Max-Planck Institut fuer demographische Forschung, Rostock
2011-2013 Heisenbergstipendiatin am College de France, Paris
2013-2014(6) Heisenbergstipendiatin am Historischen Institut der Universitaet Koeln
