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Seminars, Lecturesand Workshops
Publications
Clergy and Society(2005)
Growing up Father-less (2009)
Intergenerational Solidarity (2010)
Blackwell Encyclo-pedia of Ancient History (2011)
 

Books

• Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spaetantiken Kleinasiens (Das Altertumswissenschaftliche Kolloquium 15), Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag 2005.

• Family, Household and Intergenerational Solidarity - Roman Egypt in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Habilitationsschrift, 2010, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

• Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (together with David M. Ratzan), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009. 

• Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History (General Editor and Area Editor of  'Social history'), 13 volumes. Co-edited with ed. R.S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champlin, and A. Erskine, Oxford: Blackwell 2011.
  
  

• Cross-Cultural Approaches to Family and Household Structures in the Ancient World (Proceeedings of a Conference at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU, May 9-10, 2008), Journal of Family History (2009), co-editor, in preparation.

Articles 

• "Demography and Power Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean (ca. 500 BCE - 500 CE)" Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Social Science and History Association, Chicago November 18.-21.2010, forthcoming.
  

• "Intergenerational Contracts in the Papyri (P.Mich. 5.322),” Proceedings of the 26th International Congress of Papyrology, Geneva, 16.-21. August 2010, forthcoming.

• „The Joint-Family Household in the Graeco-Roman East,“ in: Beryl Rawson (ed.), The Ancient Family, Oxford: Blackwell 2011, forthcoming.
  

• „Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean,“ in Judith Evans Grubbs (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Children in the Ancient World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, in preparation. 

• "Circumcision", "Brother-sister marriage", "Daughter-in-law" "Incest" Marriage, close-kin", in: Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. R.S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champlin, A. Erskine, S.R. Huebner, Oxford: Blackwell 2011.
  

• “Episcoporum nec non Clericorum et Honoratorum ac Possessorum et Curialium Decreto – State, Élites and the Church in Late Antiquity,” submitted to the Journal of Late Antiquity.

• „Currencies of Power – The Venality of Offices in the Later Roman Empire,“ in: Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (University of Colorado at Boulder, 22 - 25 March 2007), ed. A Cain and N. Lenski. Burlington VT 2009: 167-180.

• "Therapeuteria reconsidered. Female Circumcision in Egypt from Ancient Times until Today?,“ Journal of Egyptian History 2 (2009), 149-171.

• „Callirhoe’s Dilemma:  Remarriage and Stepfathers in the Graeco-Roman East“, in: Hübner, S.R.; Ratzan, D.M. (eds.), Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, 61-82.    

• „Fatherless Antiquity? Perspectives on Fatherlessness in the Ancient Mediterranean“, in: S. R. Hübner and D. M. Ratzan (eds.), Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009 (together with D.M. Ratzan), 3-28.
   

• “Brother-Sister marriages in Roman Egypt – A Curiosity of Humankind or a Widespread Family Strategy,“ Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007), 21-49

•    „Wieso wir in den USA forschen“ (together with H. Bauder, D.Bergemann et al.), DIE ZEIT, 42/2006

•  „Zwei neue Schriften des Plutarch?  Peri polytropia und Peri polysarkia”, Hermes 134.3 (2006), 301-308.

• „Alte Männer im klassischen Athen (5 Jh.) – An den Rand gedrängt?“, Göttinger Forum der Altertumswissenschaften 8 (2005) http:// www.gfa.d-r.de/z/2005 (26p.). 

• "Germe oder Ar- - ? Ein antiker Kurort bei Pergamon“, in: Studien zum antiken Kleinasien V (Asia Minor Studien 44, hrsg. von der Forschungsstelle Asia Minor im Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Bonn 2002, 97-116 (together with D. Rohde).

• „Spiegel und soziale Gestaltungskraft alltäglicher Lebenswelt: Der Kult des Men in Lydien und Phrygien“, in: Religion und Region (Asia Minor Studien 45, hrsg. von der Forschungsstelle Asia Minor im Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Bonn 2003, 179-200.

Reviews

·        W. Clarysse, D.J. Thompson (eds.), Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt (Cambridge Classical Studies), Cambridge 2006, in: H-Soz-Kult 2007.

·        L. Jones Hall, Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity, London, New York 2004, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 19.07.2005, URL: <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2005-3-043>.

·        B. Bitton-Ashkelony, A. Kofsky (eds.), Christian Gaza in Late Antiquity, Leiden, Boston, Tokyo 2004, in: sehepunkte 5 (2005), Nr. 5 [15.05.2005], URL: <http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2005/05/7988.html>.

·        I. Sandwell, J. Huskinson (eds.), Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch. Papers from a Colloquium, London, 15th December 2001, Oxford 2003, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 05.07.2004, URL: <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensio-nen/2004-3-013>.

·        B. D. Ehrman, A. S. Jacobs (eds.), Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E. A Reader, New York 2004, sehepunkte 5 (2005), Nr. 6 [15.06.2005], URL: <http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2005/05/....html>.

·        G. Schmelz, Kirchliche Amtsträger in spätantiken Ägypten nach den Aussagen der griechischen und koptischen Papyri und Ostraka (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 13), Leipzig 2002, in: Historische Literatur 2.1 (2004), 61-64.