Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Sabine Huebner studied History
and Classics in Münster, Rome, Berlin, Jena, and London, and received her
Ph.D. (Ancient History) at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in 2005. She
submitted her Habilitationsschrift (Ancient History) at Freie Universitaet
Berlin in April 2010. She also holds two graduate degrees from Münster
University, a M.A. and the 1st Staatsexamen. After finishing her PhD
she has been an adjunct assistant professor and visiting research scholar at
several institutions in the United States, including Columbia University and
New York University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, of which she is currently a member.
She has published widely
and extensively. Among her publications are two monographs, one on the clergy in
the later Roman empire (Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken
Kleinasiens.
Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag 2005), and
another one on intergenerational relationships in comparative
perspective (Family, Household and Intergenerational Solidarity
- Roman Egypt in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press 2011). She has also published a co-edited volume on Growing
up Fatherless in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009).
She authored as well 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 is also contributing chapters
to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Children in the Ancient World (ed.
Judith Evans-Grubbs) and the Blackwell Companion to the Ancient
Family (ed. Beryl Rawson).
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 with over 5,000 entries. It will range widely, from social and cultural to political, economic
and intellectual history, and come out in a print- and an online-version
end of 2010.
Sabine Huebner has won numerous
grants, prizes and fellowships for her research, awarded by the German Research
Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation,
the European Commission, the A.W.-Mellon Foundation, the Institute for the
Study of the Ancient World at New York University and the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
Honors and Awards
July 2007 - June 2010 Marie-Curie International Research Fellowship of the European Commission
July 2007 - June 2008 Visiting Research Scholarship at the "Institute for the Study of the Ancient World" (New York University) http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/scholars.htm
July 2006 Appointment to the Advisory Board of GAIN (German Academic International Network), the Cooperation of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (AvH), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Research Foundation (DFG)
July 2006 - June 2007 Post-doc Research Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Columbia University, New York
(for the same period): Post-doc Research Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (returned)
January 2006 - June 2006 Post-doc Research Fellowship (A.W. Mellon-Foundation) at Columbia University, New York
September 2005 - December 2005 Post-doc Research Fellowship (A.W. Mellon-Foundation) at the University of California, Berkeley
February - August 2005 Research Fellowship (Fritz-Thyssen-
Foundation), Freie Universitaet Berlin
2002-2005 Research Fellow of of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the postgraduate seminar "Leitbilder der Spaetantike" at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena
Dissertation: "The Christian Clergy in the Society of Later Roman Asia Minor"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Ameling
2004 Fellowship of the Central European University for the course of Prof. Dr. Peter Brown et al. "Changing Intellectual Landscapes in Late Antiquity"
2003 Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at University College London
2002 Fellowship of the Commission of Ancient History and Epigraphy, Munich with Prof. Dr. W. Eck
1999-2000 ERASMUS-Fellowship at Università di Roma III, Rome