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
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