Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Sabine Huebner studied History and Classics in Münster, Rome, Berlin, Jena, and London, and received her Ph.D. (Ancient History) at Jena University in 2005. 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 a monograph on the clergy in the later Roman empire (Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken 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, which she just completed and which is under review with Cambridge University Press. 

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 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). 

Furthermore, Sabine Huebner was one of the organizers of a symposium on household composition in antiquity, the first of its kind held in May 2008 at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU, New York), in which participants studied and discussed various household formation patterns, from early China, Mesopotamia, Minoan Crete, classical Greece, the Roman West, and Hellenistic and Roman Egypt to later Byzantine times (Conference “Cross-Cultural Approaches to Family and Household Structures in the Ancient World” May 9-10, 2008).

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 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

2010 Membership of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton

July 2007 - June 2010
Marie-Curie International Research Fellowship  of the European Commission

July 2007 - June 2008 Visiting Research Scholarship at the newly founded "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

July 2005 - December 2005 Post-doc Research Fellowship (A.W. Mellon-Foundation) at the University of California, Berkeley

February - June 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