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A. DEGREES:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. phil. habil. Altay Coşkun
Associate Professor
Department of Classical Studies
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
2007 Habilitation University of Trier, FB III Ancient History
(i.e. postdoctoral degree qualifying for a full professorship in Germany)
1999 Ph.D. University of Trier, FB III Ancient History, Latin & Greek Philology
1996 Erstes Staatsexamen University of Trier, FB III History, Latin Philology, Education
(comparable with Joint Honours plus MA)
1989 Abitur Städtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath
B. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2009 July – pres. Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Classical Studies, University of
Waterloo (appointment in March 2008, grant of tenure in June 2008; Director of
the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies: appointed for 2013-2015)
2009 Jan. – July Feodor-Lynen Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics & Ancient History,
University of Exeter, UK
2002-2008 Research Associate, Collaborate Research Centre 600 ‘Strangers and Poor People.
Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the
Present Day’ (SFB 600), University of Trier
2002-2008 Part-time Lecturer, Department of Ancient History, University of Trier
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Wolfson
College, Oxford University
1999 Postgraduate Research Assistant, Department of Ancient History, University of
Trier
1996-2000 Part-time Lecturer, Classics Department, University of Trier
1992-1996 Undergraduate/graduate Research Assistant, Department of Ancient History,
University of Trier
C. HONOURS and AWARDS:
2012 July-Sept. Visiting Professor of the SFB 600, University of Trier
2011 June-Aug. Feodor-Lynen Visiting Fellow, Department of Classics & Ancient History,
University of Exeter
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2010 June-Aug. Visiting Professor of the SFB 600, University of Trier
Since 2009 Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University
of Exeter
2008 Acceptance into the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation Network
2008 Representation of young generation of scholars (habilitati) in the Humanities on
the Colloquia Academica, Mainz Academy (with a publication award)
2006 Representation of young generation (habilitandi) of Ancient Historians,
Habilitandenforum, 46. Deutscher Historikertag, Konstanz, Germany
2000 ‘Förderpreis der Universität Trier’ (prize for excellence of doctorate)
1996-1999 Doctoral Scholarship, Cusanuswerk, Bonn
1992-1996 Undergraduate/Graduate Scholarship, Cusanuswerk, Bonn
D.-E. PUBLICATIONS and WORK IN PROGRESS:
Summary:
1) Books: 4
2) Edited Volumes: 3
3) a) Refereed Journal Articles: 43
3) b) Refereed Book Chapters or Conference Papers: 19
4) Unrefereed Publications: 12
5) a) Reviews and Reports: 30
5) b) Encyclopaedic Articles: 48
5) c) Databases or Online Resources: 4
5) d) Historical Maps: 6
5) e) Genealogical Tables: 4
Total of works published or accepted for publication: 175
Click here for a complete list of publications and work in progress.
F. RESEARCH FUNDING:
I have successfully (co-) applied for funding to various UW institutions and external agencies,
including the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG), Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada (SSHRC). I am currently co-directing a major collaborative project on the history of
citizenship at the University of Trier (SFB 600) funded by the DFG (2009-14). My work on a ‘New
History of Ancient Galatia’ is supported through a SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2011-15).
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G. ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCE PANELS, AND CONFERENCES:
8-12/7/2013 “Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World during Hellenistic and
Roman periods.” Constanţa, Romania (with Dr. Victor Cojocaru, Archaeological
Institute of the Romanian Academy in Iaşi and Dr. Gabriel Custurea (National
Museum of History and Archaeology, Constanţa) service for WIHS
20-23/2/13 “Seleucid Study Day IV: Seleucid Royal Realm: Roles, Representations, and
Expectations”, McGill University (with Alex McAuley MA & Prof. Hans Beck) service
for WIHS
08/01/13 with Sheila Ager: “Interstate Study Day”. Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies &
Dept. of Classical Studies, UW. service for WIHS
5-7/9/12 ‘Seleucid Study Day III: War within the Family: A Reassessment of the First Century of
Seleucid Rule’, Panel of the Celtic Conference of Classics, Bordeaux. (Main convenor:
Dr. Kyle Erickson, Trinity St David, Lampeter, UK) service for WIHS
21/6/12 ‘Thesis Workshop’, Department of Classical Studies, Waterloo. Teaching
09/11/11 “Seleucid Study Day II”, Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies. service for WIHS
27-28/08/11 with Andrea Binsfeld: “Lectiones gratulatoriae Henrico Heinen (paene)
15/8/11
septuagesimo. Ein Querschnitt aus den Forschungen des Schüler/innen/kreises,“
Abtei Himmerod near Trier, Germany.
with Stephen Mitchell: “Seleucid Study Day”, University of Exeter, UK. service for
WIHS
20/12/10 "Fremd und rechtlos? Bausteine und Anregungen zum Handbuchprojekt," (‘Foreign
and without Rights? Elements and Suggestions for the Companion Project’).
Workshop of the Study Group on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship. Collaborate
Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Lutz Raphael)
11/12/2010 with David Engels, Brussels/Kyle Erickson, Lampeter: “Construction of Seleucid
Royalty: Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of Antiochus I.” At the Workshop:
Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic Scholarship, Waterloo Institute for
Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo. service for WIHS
25-26/06/10 "Systematische Querschnitte zu den Rechten von Fremden von der Antike bis zur
Gegenwart" (‘Systematic Perspectives on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship from
Antiquity to the Present Day’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and
Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with
Professor Lutz Raphael)
19/12/09 "Neue Projekte und Zwischenberichte" (‘New Projects and Intermediate Reports’).
Workshop of the Study Group on Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship. Collaborate
Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Lutz Raphael)
7-8/11/08 "Zugehörigkeitsrechte und religiöse Differenzierung" (‘Rights of Belonging and
Religious Alterity’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship,
Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Wolfgang
Spickermann)
19-21/10/07 "Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen zwischenstaatlicher
Beziehungen in der griechisch-römischen Welt" (‘Between Friendship and Divine
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Adoration. Modes of International Relations in the Graeco-Roman World’).
Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier. (with Professor Heinz
Heinen/Dr Stefan Pfeiffer).
5/5/06 "Auf des Rechtes Schneide: Ausschluß und Vertreibung zwischen Gesetz, Verfahren
und sozialer Praxis untersucht an neun historischen Beispielen" (‘Legally Precarious
Balance: Exclusion and Expulsion in the Context of Law, Procedure, and Social
Practice – Nine Historical Case Studies’). Workshop of the Study Group Foreigners’
Rights and Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre 600 (SFB 600), University of
Trier.
12/02/05 "Second Round Table on Intercultural Onomastics: Recent Research on Celtic, Greek,
Iberian, Norman, and Roman Contact Names in Antiquity and the Middle Ages".
Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), University of Trier. (with Lidia
Kouznetsova M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
11/02/05 "Personennamen zwischen den Kulturen. Methoden, Probleme und Ergebnisse der
Interferenzonomastik" (‘Personal Names in Cultural Contact. Methods, Problems,
and Results of Intercultural Onomastics’). Network for Intercultural Onomastics
(NIO), University of Trier. (with Lidia Kouznetsova M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
09/07/04 "Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik" (‘The Foreign Friends of Rome in
the Late Republic’). Workshop of the Research Project The Foreign Friends of Rome,
Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600-A2, University of Trier. (with Professor Heinz
Heinen, Trier/ Professor Gustav Adolf Lehmann, Göttingen)
27-28/02/04 "Zugehörigkeitsrechte und die Inklusion von Fremden in politische Räume" (‘Rights
of Participation and the Inclusion of Foreigners in Political Communities’. Panel I of
the conference: "Recht, Religion und Versorgungskrisen. Wandel von Inklusion und
Exklusion Fremder und Armer von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart". Study Group
Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship, Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University
of Trier.
06/12/03 "Round Table on Interference and Interculturalisation in Onomastics". Network for
Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), Classics Centre, Oxford University. (with Ina
Döttinger Hartmann M.A./PD Dr Jürgen Zeidler)
H. INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS:
July 2013 Ethnarch der Juden – Ein Herrschaftstitel im Kontext des seleukidischen und römischen
Imperialismus. At the Interconnectivity Conference, Constanta, Romania.
March 2013 “Latène Artefacts and the Locations of Celtic Settlements in Hellenistic Asia Minor.” At
the conference: The Celts and the Classical World: from Ireland to Asia Minor,
Moscow.
Feb. 2013 “Layers of Anti-Seleucid Propaganda and the Representations of Laodice I in
Hellenistic-Roman Historiography.” At the Seleucid Study Day IV, McGill University,
Montreal.
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06/09/2012 “Antiochus Hierax’ Foes and Allies: a New Account of the Seleucid ‘War of Brothers’
(246-228/27 BC).” At the Seleucid Study Day III = Panel at the Celtic Conference of
Classics, Bordeaux.
22/05/2012 “Der Kult des Theos Sebastos in Galatien: ein Mysterienkult” (‘The Cult of Theos
Sebastos in Galatia: a Mystery Cult?’). On the 2 nd Greek-Turkish Epigraphy Symposium
(Adrasan – Antalya, 22-26 May 2012). – An English version of this paper was held on
the Thesis Workshop, Waterloo, 21 June 2012.
19/05/2012 “Die Eliten von Ankyra und Pessinus in römischer Zeit: Zwischenergebnisse” (‘The
Elites of Ancyra and Pessinous in the Roman Period: Preliminary Results’). At the
conference of the Research Network on Local Elites in the Hellenistic and Roman
Empires, Universität Universität zu Köln (Cologne), Germany.
09/05/2012 “Kings and Tetrarchs of the Ituraeans in the 1 st Century BC’”. At the Annual Meeting of
the Classical Association of Canada, London ON
09/11/2011 “The Third Syrian War and the War of Brothers Revisited.” At the Seleucid Study Day II,
Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, Waterloo ON.
27/08/2011 “Zur Siegesideologie der frühen Seleukiden” (‘On the Ideology of Victory among the
Early Seleucids’). At the conference: Lectiones gratulatoriae Henrico Heinen (paene)
septuagesimo, Abtei Himmerod near Trier, Germany.
15/08/2011 “The Soter Cults of Seleucus I and Antiochus I Preceding the So-Called Elephant Victory
of ca. 275 BC.” At the ‘Seleucid Study Day’, University of Exeter, UK.
10/06/2011 “Die Eliten von Ankyra und Pessinus in römischer Zeit: Quellenlage und offene Fragen”
(‘The Elites of Ancyra and Pessinous in the Roman Period: Sources and Open
Questions’). At the conference of the Research Network on Local Elites in the
Hellenistic and Roman Empires, Universität Erlangen, Germany (via Skype).
19/02/2011 "Die Tetrarchie als hellenistisch-römisches Herrschaftsinstrument" (‘The Tetrarchy as a
Means of Rule in the Hellenistic and Roman World‘). At the conference ‘Client
Kingdoms‘, Friedrich-Meinecke Institut, FU Berlin.
11/12/2010 (with David Engels, Brussels/Kyle Erickson, Lampeter): “Construction of Seleucid
Royalty: Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of Antiochus I.” At the Workshop:
Opportunities for Interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic Scholarship, Waterloo Institute for
Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo.
04/11/2010 "Neue Forschungen zum Kaiserkult in Galatien" (‘New Research on the Imperial Cult in
Galatia’). At the Conference: Der Beitrag Kleinasiens zur Kulturgeschichte,
Kleinasiatische Kommission an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Vienna.
15/07/2010 "Bürgerrechtsverleihungen in der griechisch-römischen Welt. Eine systematische
Annäherung" (‘Grants of Citizenship in the Graeco-Roman World. A Systematic
Approach’). SFB 600, University of Trier.
02/07/2010 "Citizenship in the Context of Law, Culture, Politics, and Society: the Construction of
Romanness in Cicero’s Archiana." At the conference: Integration and Identity in the
Roman Republic, University of Manchester.
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26/06/2010 "Demographie und Fremdenrechte im klassischen Altertum" (‘Demography and
Foreigners’ Rights in Classical Antiquity’). At a workshop of the Collaborate Research
Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
12/05/2010 "Deconstructing a Myth of Seleucid History: the So-Called ‘Elephant Victory’ over the
Galatians Revisited." At the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada,
Université Laval, Québec.
06/05/2009 "Galatian Identity and La Tène Objects in Asia Minor." Dept. of Archaeology and the
Migration Network, University of Exeter.
12/03/2009 "New Work on Hellenistic and Roman Galatia. Terror Gallicus, Keltensieg, and
Conflicting Perceptions of the Galatians." Dept. of Classical Studies, University of
Wales, Lampeter.
A similar talk was given in the Department of Roman History, Université Libre de
Bruxelles (18/05/2010), Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter
(10/06/2009).
15/11/2008 "Annäherungen an die galatischen Eliten in hellenistischer Zeit" (‘Approaching the
Galatian Elite in the Hellenistic Period’). At the 3
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rd Meeting of the Research Network
‘Eliten unter den hellenistischen Königen’, Dept. of Ancient History, Universität zu
Köln.
22/08/2008 "Belonging and Isolation in Central Anatolia: the Galatians in the Graeco-Roman
World." At the Hellenistic Workshop ‘Belonging and Isolation’, University of Waterloo.
18/08/2008 "Galatian Place Names Revisited: Intercultural Toponomastics in Central Asia Minor
and Galatian History." At the 23 rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS
XXIII), York University, Toronto.
16/07/2008 "Galatians and Seleukids: a Century of Conflict and Cooperation." At the conference:
‘Seleukid Dissolution. The Sinking of the Anchor’, University of Exeter.
15/05/2008 "Pseudo-Xenophon: ein ‚Alter Oligarch’? Die Athenaion politeia auf dem Prüfstand"
(‘Pseudo-Xenophon: an Old Oligarch? The Athenaion politeia Revisited’). Dept. of
Ancient History, University of Göttingen.
18/04/2008 "Großzügige Praxis der Bürgerrechtsvergaben in Rom? Zwischen Mythos und
Wirklichkeit". (‘Were the Romans Generous in Conveying Their Citizenship?
Inbetween Myth and Reality’). At the Colloquia Academica, Mainzer Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.
19/12/2007 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zu ‘kaiserfrommen’ Reichsbewohnern. Schlaglichter auf die
Stammesbildung der Galater und ihren Einschluß in die griechisch-römische Welt (3.
Jh. v.–2. Jh. n.Chr.)" (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Devoted Subjects to the Emperor.
New Perspectives on the Ethnogenesis of the Galatians and Their Inclusion in the
Graeco-Roman World, 3 rd cent. BC–AD 2 nd cent.’). Public Paper ending the procedure
of ‘Habilitation’, University of Trier.
Similar papers were given in the Dept. of Ancient History, University of Rostock
(11/07/2007), and the Dept. of History, University of Bremen (09/07/2007)
20/10/2007 "Der Ankyraner Kaiserkult und die Transformation galatischer und phrygischgalatischer
Identitäten in Zentralanatolien im Spiegel der Münzquellen" (‘The Emperor
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Central Anatolia According to the Numismatic Evidence’). At the conference: Zwischen
Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung. Formen zwischenstaatlicher Beziehungen in
der griechisch-römischen Welt. SFB 600, University of Trier.
19/10/2007 "Freundschaften, persönliche Nahverhältnisse und das Imperium Romanum"
(‘Friendships, Interpersonal Relations, and the Roman Empire’). Introduction to the
homonymous panel of the above-mentioned conference.
29/09/2007 "Bericht aus dem Fortgang der Forschungen zu den Galatern" (‘Intermediate Report
on Galatian Studies’). At the 2
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nd Meeting of the Research Network ‘Eliten unter den
hellenistischen Königen’, Dept. of Ancient History, University of Frankfurt/Main.
17/05/2007 "The So-Called ius migrandi and Other Rights of the Latins in Republican Rome
Revisited". At the conference: ‘Insiders and Outsiders in Greece and Rome,’
Gregynog/University of Wales.
27/04/2007 "Herrschaftsform, Herrschaftswechsel und Inklusionsverhalten. Eine Projektskizze des
Arbeitskreises ‘Zugehörigkeitsrechte’" (Typology of Political Constitution, Change of
Government, and Modes of Inclusion. A Design for a Project of the Study Group
‘Participation Rights’’). At a workshop of the Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600,
University of Trier.
20/09/2006 "Das antike Galatien und die prägende Kraft der Bilder" (‘Ancient Galatia and the
Impact of Images’). At the Habilitandenforum of the 46 th Deutscher Historikertag,
Konstanz.
22/07/2006 "Galatische Dynasten im Spannungsfeld zwischen Autonomiebestrebungen, Herrschaftsansprüchen
hellenistischer Könige und römischer Hegemonialmacht" (‘Galatian
Dynasts and the Conflicts Resulting from Their Desire for Autonomy, the Ambitions of
Hellenistic Kings, and the Roman Hegemony’). At the 1st Meeting of the Research
Network Eliten unter den hellenistischen Königen, Cologne.
23/06/2006 "Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zur ‘romfreundlichen’ Ordnungsmacht – Die Galater in
hellenistischer und frührömischer Zeit" (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to Custodians of
Roman Peace. The Galatians in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods’. Dept. of
Ancient History, University of Göttingen.
05/05/2006 "Auf des Rechtes Schneide: Ausschluß und Vertreibung zwischen Gesetz, Verfahren
und sozialer Praxis" (‘Legally Precarious Balance: Exclusion and Expulsion with Regard
to Law, Procedure, and Social Practice’). Introduction to the homonymous workshop.
Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
05/05/2006 "Bürgerrechtsentzug oder Fremdenausweisung? Reaktionen auf die Immigration nach
Rom von 187 bis 173 v.Chr." (‘Withdrawal of Citizenship or Expulsion of Foreigners?
Reactions to the Immigration to Rome, 187–173 BC’). At the same workshop.
21/01/2006 "Kelten und Phryger im hellenistischen und römischen Kleinasien. Ein (langwieriger)
Ethnogeneseprozeß im Spiegel der Personennamen aus Galatien" (‘Celts and
Phrygians in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. A Prolonged Process of Ethnogenesis
According to the Personal Names from Galatia’). At a meeting in commemoration of
Herrmann Bengtson, Wuppertal/Germany.
30/09/2005 "Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik – Network for Intercultural Onomastics." At the 22 nd
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30/09/2005 "Intercultural Onomastics and Some Patterns of Socio-Political Inclusion in the Graeco-
Roman World. The Example of Galatia in Asia Minor." At the same conference. A
similar paper had been given on the Second Round Table on Intercultural Onomastics:
Recent Research on Celtic, Greek, Iberian, Norman, and Roman Contact Names in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Network for Intercultural Onomastics, University of
Trier (12/02/2005).
11/02/2005 with Jürgen Zeidler: "Personennamen zwischen den Kulturen. Was ist Interferenzonomastik
und was kann sie leisten?" (‘Personal Names in the Midst of Cultural
Contact: What is Intercultural Onomastics, and Which Results Does It Promise’). At the
same workshop.
25/10/2004 "Some Foreign Friends of Late Republican Rome. With an Introduction to the
Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion
and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day’." Anc. Hist. Dept, Macquarie
University, Sydney.
09/07/2004 "Deiotarus amicus populi Romani." At the workshop: Roms auswärtige Freunde in der
späten Republik. Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
27/02/2004 "Civitas Romana und die Inklusion von Fremden in die römische Republik am Beispiel
des Bundesgenossenkrieges" (‘Roman Citizenship and the Inclusion of Strangers in the
Roman Republic: the Case of the Civil War’). At the conference: Recht, Religion und
Versorgungskrisen. Wandel von Inklusion und Exklusion Fremder und Armer von der
Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Collaborate Research Centre = SFB 600, University of Trier.
06/12/2003 "Netzwerk Interferenzonomastik (NIO) and Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Strangers and
Poor People’ (SFB 600): Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Cooperation." At the Round
Table on Interference and Interculturalisation in Onomastics, Network for
Intercultural Onomastics (NIO), Classics Centre, Oxford.
06/12/2003 "Research in Interferenzonomastik." At the Round Table on Interference and
Interculturalisation in Onomastics, Network for Intercultural Onomastics (NIO),
Classics Centre, Oxford.
Nov. 2001 "‘Cover Names’ and Nomenclature in Late Roman Gaul. The Evidence of the Bordelaise
Poet Ausonius." At the Annual Meeting of the Society for Onomastics and Kinship
Studies, Deutsches Historisches Institut (DHI), Paris.
28/06/2001 "Imperial Constitutions, Chronology and Prosopography. Towards a New Methodology
for the Use of the Late Roman Law Codes." At the workshop Resourcing Sources IV,
Unit for Prosopographical Research, Oxford.
June 2001 "Imperial Constitutions and Chronology of Late Antiquity. On the Allocation of
Responsibility in Late Roman Legislation." Roman Law Group, University College
London (UCL), London, UK.
08/05/2001 "The Rise of the Gens Ausoniana. Origins, Pinnacle, and Persistence of a Gallic Family."
Late Roman Seminar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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I. TEACHING:
1) Formal Classroom Teaching
FT = Fall Term, WT = Winter Term, ST = Spring Term (= Trinity Term); one term = 12 weeks
WS = Winter Semester, SS = Summer Semester; one semester = 15 or 16 weeks
a) Courses Taught at the University of Waterloo (100-400: 3 hrs./week; 600: 2 hrs./week)
WT 2013 CLAS 691 Special Topics: Transformations of the Later Roman State
WT 2013 LAT 490/691 Cicero, Pro lege Manilia de imperio Cn. Pompei (66 BC)
WT 2013 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
WT 2012 CLAS 352 Advanced Studies in Roman History: Rome and the Control of the Hellenistic
World (229-020 BC)
WT 2012 LAT 331/491 Advanced Studies in Latin (Prose) / Senior Studies in Latin (Selected
Topics): Select Readings from Caesar
FT 2011 LAT 101 Introductory Latin 1
FT 2011 CLAS 655 Roman Frontiers and Provinces
FT 2011 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
WT 2011 LAT 102 Introductory Latin 2
WT 2011 CLAS 252 = HIST 252 Roman History
WT 2011 LAT 331/491 Advanced Studies in Latin (Prose) / Senior Studies in Latin (Selected
Topics): Livy, Ab Urbe Condita - Select Readings
FT 2010 LAT 101 Introductory Latin 1
FT 2010 CLAS 351 Advanced Studies in Greek History : After Alexander: The Struggle for Power
in the Hellenistic World (323-30 BC)
WT 2010 CLAS 486 Senior Seminar: Intercultural Processes: the Galatians in the Ancient World
WT 2010 LAT 490 Senior Latin: Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta
FT 2009 CLAS 691 Kings and Emperors as Gods: Political, Religious, and Cultural Aspects of the
Ruler-Cult in the Classical World (MA)
FT 2009 CLAS 252/HIST 252 Roman History
b) Course Co-Taught with Professor Stephen Mitchell / Professor Daniel Ogden, University of
Exeter
WS 2008/9 MA Core Module Hellenistic Culture (I taught 3.5 classes of 3 hrs)
c) Courses Taught in the Department of Ancient History, University of Trier
SS 2008 Civitas Romana: Die Geschichte von Bürger- und Fremdenrechten im antiken Rom
(‘The History of Citizens’ and Foreigners’ Rights in Ancient Rome’) (lecture, 2
hrs/week)
WS 2007 Römischer Imperialismus – Republik und frühe Kaiserzeit (‘Roman Imperialism –
Republic and Early Empire’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2007 Augustus und der frühe Prinzipat (‘Augustus and the Early Principate’) (proseminar, 2
hrs/week)
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WS 2006 Alexander der Große und die Anfänge der hellenistischen Welt (‘Alexander the Great
and the Beginning of the Hellenistic World’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2006 Thukydides, Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges (‘Thucydides, History of the
Peloponnesian War’) (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2005 Das Römische Reich in der Spätantike (‘The Later Roman Empire’) (proseminar, 2
hrs/week)
WS 2005 Verfassungstypologien bei Herodot, Platon, Aristoteles und Polybios (‘Constitutional
Typologies in the Works of Herodotus, Platon, Aristotle, and Polybius’) (practical unit, 2
hrs/week)
SS 2005 Die Römische Republik im Zeitalter der Bürgerkriege (‘The Roman Republic in the Times
of the Civil Wars’) (proseminar, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2005 Caesar, De bello civili (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2004 Paulinus von Pella, Eucharisticos (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2004 Sueton, Divus Iulius (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2003 Der Fremde in den Reden Ciceros (‘The Alien in the Orations of Cicero’) (practical unit,
2 hrs/week)
SS 2003 Caesar, De bello Gallico (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
WS 2002 Cicero, Pro lege Manilia de imperio Cn. Pompei (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
SS 2002 Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro (practical unit, 1 hr/week)
SS 2001 Die Rechtskodifizierung unter den Kaisern Diocletian, Theodosius und Justinian.
Hintergründe, Methoden und Auswirkungen (‘The Codification of Law under the
Emperors Diocletian, Theodosius and Justinian’) (practical unit, 2 hrs/week)
d) Courses Co-Taught with Professor Heinz Heinen, Department of Ancient History, University of
Trier
*(i.e. seminar for advanced students, ca. 4th year) **(i.e. seminar for advanced and Ph.D.
students)
SS 2005 Themen und Texte der Alten Geschichte (as SS 2002, but 2 hrs/week)**
WS 2004 Althistorisches Projekt- und Doktorandenkolloquium (as SS 2004, but 2 hrs/week)**
SS 2004 Projektkolloquium zu Quellen und Forschungen (‘seminar related to [Greek] sources
and current research’, 1 h/week)**
SS 2003 Kolloquium (as SS 2002, 1 h/week)**
SS 2003 Caesars Gallischer Krieg (‘Caesar’s Gaulish War’) (2 hrs/week)*
WS 2002 Kolloquium (as SS 2002, 1 h/week)**
WS 2002 Römische Außenpolitik im Zeitalter der späten Republik (‘Roman Foreign Policy in the
Late Republic’) (2 hrs/week)*
SS 2002 Kolloquium für Doktoranden, Magistranden, Examenskandidaten und Fortgeschrittene
(1 h/week)**
e) Course Taught in the Faculty of Modern History, Oxford University
ST 2001 Paulinus of Pella, Eucharisticos (Latin poetry for PhD candidates, 2 hrs/week)
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f) Latin Courses, Taught in the Department of Classics, University of Trier
WS 1999 Cicero, De re publica (Latinum III, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1999 Latinum II (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1998 Latinum I (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1998 Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium (Latinum IV, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1997 Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes (Latinum III, 5 hrs/week)
SS 1997 Latinum II (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
WS 1996 Latinum I (practical unit, 5 hrs/week)
2) Supervision of Advanced Students
a) Supervision of Graduate Students at UW
MA Theses (ongoing):
Since Fall 2011: Brandy Nault: The Impact of the Imperial Cult on Early Christianity.
Since Fall 2011: Ryan Walsh: Representation and Identity of the Gauls in the Roman Empire.
Since Fall 2012: Lukas Lemcke The Cursus Publicus in the Later Roman Empire.
I am also on the graduate student committees of:
Since Fall 2012: Dan Attrell, Dionysian Semiotics: Mycolatry and Shamanism in the Myths and
Rituals of the Phrygian Mother
Since Fall 2011: Jonathan Shen, Prosopography of Hellenistic Rhodes
Since Fall 2011: Nizar Ghazal, Wilfrid Laurier University: Olea Europaea: Methods of Olive Oil
Processing and the Mycenaean Oil Trade in the Late Bronze Age Levant
I was on the graduate student committees of:
Laura Roncone: MA 2012,
Sean Irvin: MArch 2010, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Thesis on the Roman
Tabellarium).
Moreover:
I supervise(d) the following part-time graduate RAs:
Lukas Lemcke, since Fall 2012.
Ryan Walsh, Winter 2012.
Together with April Ross, BA Waterloo 2011, MA Oxford 2012, PhD student Toronto 2012-, I
produced four maps on Ancient Galatia (2010-12), published in Gephyra 9, 2012, 51-68.
b) Supervision of Undergraduate Students at UW
Undergraduate Honours Thesis Supersivion:
2012 Brett Bartlett: Justin’s Historiae Philippicae.
2012 Lukas Lemke: The Imperial Information and Transportation System in the High Empire. On the
basis of this thesis, we have co-authored the article ‘Users and Issuers of Permits of
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the Imperial Information and Transportation System in the 1 st Century CE’
(forthcoming in Latomus 72, 2013). I further supervised Lukas’ article ‘Status
Identification on the Road: Requisitioning of Travel Resources by Senators,
Equestrians, and Centurions without diplomata. A Note on the Sagalassus Inscription
(SEG XXVI, 1392)’ (Gephyra 9, 2012, 137-151).
2012 (ST) Tanner Rudnick: LAT 491: Independent Study: Livy on Galatian History and the Bellum
Antiochicum.
I supervise(d) the following part-time undergraduate RAs at UW:
Sydney Pinchbeck, since Nov. 2012.
Brett Bartlett, Fall 2011; since Nov. 2012.
Tanner Rudnick, since Fall 2012: service for WIHS.
Marina Gallagher, since June 2012.
Andrew Kim, since May 2012.
Lukas Lemcke, March 2011-Spring 2012.
Bashar Jabbur, Feb. 2011-Aug. 2012. service for WIHS.
Palak Patel, Fall 2011-Winter 2012.
Ryan Walsh, Winter-Spring 2011.
Adele Robert, March-June 2011.
Louise Frost, Co-op Student, Winter 2010: service for WIHS.
April Ross, Fall 2009-Spring 2011.
c) Work with Advanced Students at the University of Trier (2002-08/10)
During my term as research associate (2002-2008), I assisted Prof. Heinz Heinen in the supervision
of 3 graduate and 1 PhD theses. Moreover, by individual tuition and common readings of ancient
sources, I led five of my research assistants to their first publications. These add up to 6 research
articles (2 co-authored with myself), 78 encyclopaedic articles, indexes to 3 edited volumes, 2
conference reports, plus support as to the peer-reviewed publication of a PhD.
Christmann, Kathrin: Ptolemaios XII. von Ägypten, Freund des Pompeius, in: Altay Coşkun (ed.):
Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005,
113-126.
Christmann, Kathrin: 7 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR) in 2005.
Kathrin Zoeller (born Christmann) is now tenured high school teacher in the Palatinate,
Germany.
Lamberty, John: Amicus Caesaris. Der Aufstieg des L. Cornelius Balbus aus Gades, in: Altay
Coşkun (ed.): Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik und im frühen Prinzipat,
Göttingen 2005, 155-173.
Lamberty, John: 35 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR) in 2005.
John Lamberty is now tenured journalist in Luxemburg (Luxemburger Wort).
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Prantl, Henrik: Zusammenfassung der Beiträge zur Tagung: Zwischen Freundschaft und
kultischer Verehrung Formen und Wandel grenzüberschreitender Zugehörigkeit in der Antike,
Universität Trier 2007: URL: www.sfb600.uni-trier.de//filebase/A2/Tagungsbericht.pdf.
Prantl, Henrik: Artavasdes II. – Freund oder Feind der Römer?, in: Altay Coşkun (ed.):
Freundschaft und Gefolgschaft in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der Römer (2. Jh. v.Chr. – 1.
Jh. n.Chr.), Frankfurt/M. 2008, 91-108.
Prantl, Henrik: 9 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR 02) in 2008.
Prantl, Henrik: 2 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR 03) in 2010.
Prantl, Henrik: Registers to Altay Coşkun/Heinz Heinen/Stefan Pfeiffer (eds.): Repräsentation von
Identität und Zugehörigkeit im Osten der griechisch-römischen Welt, Frankfurt/M. 2009, 227-
243.
Prantl, Henrik/Schwerdtner, Katrin: Registers to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Freundschaft und
Gefolgschaft in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der Römer (2. Jh. v.Chr. – 1. Jh. n.Chr.),
Frankfurt/M. 2008, 241-261.
Henrik Prantl is PhD student at Trier University (supervised formerly by Prof. H. Heinen, now by
Prof. Ch. Schäfer).
Schwerdtner, Katrin/Coşkun, Altay: Von Freunden und gottgleichen Herrschern. Tagungsbericht:
Zwischen Freundschaft und kultischer Verehrung in der Antike, H-Soz-u-Kult 13.02.2008.
URL: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=1872.
Katrin Schwerdtner is now PhD student at Trier University (supervised by Prof. Stefan Busch).
Tröster, Manuel/Coşkun, Altay: Zwischen Freundschaft und Gefolgschaft. Vergleichende
Beobachtungen zu den Außenbeziehungen des Römischen Reiches und der Vereinigten
Staaten von Amerika, GFA 6, 2003, 67-95.
Tröster, Manuel/Coşkun, Altay: Amerika auf den Spuren Roms? Zum Thema der Freundschaft in
den Außenbeziehungen der Vereinigten Staaten und des Römischen Reiches, GWU 55.9,
2004, 486-501.
Tröster, Manuel: Lucullus, His Foreign Amici, and the Shadow of Pompey, in: Altay Coskun (ed.):
Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten Republik und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005,
91-111.
Tröster, Manuel: Registers to Altay Coşkun (Hg.): Roms auswärtige Freunde in der späten
Republik und im frühen Prinzipat, Göttingen 2005, 278-300.
Tröster, Manuel: 25 contributions to Altay Coşkun (ed.): Amici Populi Romani (APR) in 2005 and
2007.
Cf. also the reference to Coşkun in the preface of Manuel Tröster’s published PhD: Themes,
Character, and Politics in Plutarch’s Life of Lucullus. The Construction of a Roman Aristocrat,
Stuttgart 2008.
After a postdoctoral fellowship of the DAAD spent at Coimbra, Portugal, Manuel Tröster was
appointed assistant professor at the University of Vienna, Austria .
3) Other Relevant Teaching Information
2012: Together with Sheila Ager, I prepared our graduate students for the Interstate Relations Study
Day (Jan. 8, 2013) by teaching a session on the topic and preparing a reader of 170 pp.
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2011-12: I ran a Research Colloquium for graduate and advanced undergraduates in the Fall 2011
and Winter 2012, ca. 2 x 6 meetings of 90 min. In the Spring Term 2012, it was replaced by a
one-day thesis workshop (June 21, 7 presentations).
2011-12: I offered a German Reading Group for students enrolled in a Classical Studies program in
Fall 2011 and Winter 2012; ca. 2 x 6 meetings of 90 min.
WT 2010: Contribution on the history of Roman citizenship to the Arts Lecture Series Cultural
Encounters – Encountering Cultures (http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/; cf. the
accompanying interview with Prof. James Skidmore: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/
coskun.html). An article on the same topic was published in the departmental online journal for
high school students (Labyrinth 91, http://classics.uwaterloo.ca/labyrinth/?p=101).
FT 2010 and 2011 Contributions on Roman History (1 / 3 hrs.) to CLAS 100 (organized by Sheila
Ager).
J. Selection of OTHER ACADEMIC AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
1) Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS), UW
2015-13 Director
present-2008 Member of the Steering Committee.
present-2010 Support of the design & development of Communication Tools:
Supervisor of Website in 2010 and again since Dec. 2011, with technical support from
Tanner Rudnik (present-2012), Bashar Jabbour (2011-12), Louise Frost (2010)
(http://www.wihs.uwaterloo.ca).
Support of Riemer Faber in the production of WIHS Newsletter 1-2.
Work on Hellenistic Databases:
– Genealogical Tables in the Hellenistic World (GTHW) with technical support from
Tanner Rudnik (present-2012), Ryan Walsh (2011-2012), Bashar Jabbour (2012)
(http://wihs.uwaterloo.ca/genealogical-tables).
– Amici Populi Romani (http://apr.uwaterloo.ca), with technical support from Tanner
Rudnik (present-2012), Ryan Walsh (2011-2012), and Henrik Prantl (2007-2008).
present-2011 (2010) Initiator and Coordinator of the Seleucid Study Group
2013-2012 Preparation of Seleucid Study Bibliography together with Alex McAuley MA (McGill)
and the further support of David Engels (Brussels) and Kyle Erickson (Lampeter, UK).
2012 (Fall) Launch of Seleucid Study Group website; main responsibility: Alex McAuley:
http://seleucid-genealogy.com/ssg.html.
2014-2011 Preparation of Seleucid Study Day IV: Seleucid Royal Women together with Alex
McAuley and Hans Beck, to be hosted at McGill, Montreal, Feb. 20-23, 2013, and to be
published 2014.
2012-2011 Support of the organization of Seleucid Study Day III: War within the Family: A
Reassessment of the First Century of Seleucid Rule, Bordeaux (5-7 Sep. 2012); main
convenor: Kyle Erickson; reports: WIHS website; H-Soz-u-Kult 2012; ClassBull.
2011 Seleucid Study Day II, Waterloo (9 Nov. 2011); reports: WIHS website and WIHS
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newsletter 2, 2012; H-Soz-u-Kult 2012.
2011 Seleucid Study Day (I), co-organized with Stephen Mitchell, Exeter (15 Aug. 2011);
reports: WIHS website and newsletter 2, 2012; H-Soz-u-Kult 2011.
2010 Coordination of panel on Antiochus I with David Engels, Brussels, and Kyle Erickson,
Lampeter, at the Interdisciplinary Workshop, Waterloo. Report on the whole workshop
in WIHS newsletter 1, 2011.
present-2011 Involvement in Further Conferences and Lecture Series (Co-) Sponsored by WIHS
2013 “Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World during Hellenistic and Roman
periods.” Constanţa, Romania, 8-12 July 2013, with Victor Cojocaru, Archaeological
Institute of the Romanian Academy in Iaşi, and Gabriel Custurea, Director of the
National Museum of History and Archaeology, Constanţa.
2013 Preparations for “Interstate Relations in Antiquity”, Waterloo, 8 Jan. 2013, co-organized
with Sheila Ager, as well as the support of Andrew Faulkner and RA Lukas Lemcke.
2012 Contribution of one lecture (2 hrs.) on the Seleucid Empire to the Lecture Series on the
Hellenistic World (organizer: Sheila Ager) for the Third Age Learning Group (TAL).
3) Service to the Faculty of Arts and University of Waterloo
2013-2010
Departmental representative in the Arts Faculty Council Executive (AFCE)
2013
Departmental representative in the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo (FAUW)
4) Service to the Scholarly Community
Organization of conferences or workshops (2003-2013) have been listed above, section G.
Editorial work (2004-2012) has been listed listed in my list of publications.
Peer review for
2012 Latomus; Romanian National Council for Scientific Research; Historia; Phoenix.
2011 Latomus; Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections; Romanian National Council for
Scientific Research.
2010 Historia; TAPA; Latomus.
2009 Historia; Materiali e Discussioni.
2007 Anatolian Studies.
5) Service to the University of Trier
present-2003
Co- Director (since 2009, 2003-2008 Director) of the study group on Foreigners’ Rights and
Citizenship from Antiquity to the Present Day, SFB 600, University of Trier:
http://sfb600.uni-trier.de/?site_id=116&id=25. Our main goal is the production of a
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handbook, see section E. 2. a). With 21 authors and several advisers involved, a
substantial amount of coordination and communication is required, for which I bear the
main responsibility together with Lutz Raphael.
2008-2002 Administration of the research project The Foreign Friends of Rome, SFB 600,
University of Trier, including
– most related communications (reports, requests, instructions, invitations etc.)
– the recruitment, training, and supervision of our RAs (on average, four students with
a work load of five hours per week were employed, with two new recruitments per
year)
– design and updating of website, with the technical support of Henrik Prantl
(http://www.sfb600.uni-trier.de/?site_id=108&
proj_id=4f394fe6c94fcbe67faee63c3a000b53&sitename=Startseite)
– production of 5 posters, contributions to Flyers (http://www.sfb600.unitrier.de/index.php?site_id=111)
and brochures (e.g., http://www.sfb600.unitrier.de/filebase/Z/sfb_brosch_2009_web.pdf,
pp. 9, 36f.).
K. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Since 2012 Member of the British Institute at Ankara
Since 2010 Member of the Classical Association of Canada
Since 2009 Member of the Association of Ancient Historians of America (AAH)
2009-2012 Member of the International Research Network ‘Lokale Eliten in antiken
Großreichen’ (‘Local Élites in Ancient Empires’), directed by Professor Peter Franz Mittag
(Cologne) and Professor Boris Dreyer (Erlangen), funded by the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung, Bonn
Since 2008 Member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
Since 2006 Member of the ‘Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands’
(VHD), i.e. German Society of Historical Studies
2006-2009 Member of the International Research Network ‘Lokale Eliten unter den
hellenistischen Königen’ (‘Local Élites under the Hellenistic Kings’), directed by Professor
Peter Franz Mittag (Cologne) and Dr Boris Dreyer (Göttingen / Frankfurt)
(http://cgi.server.uni-frankfurt.de/fb08/bodreyer/index.html), funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn
Since 2005 Member of the ‘Mommsengesellschaft’, i.e. German Society of Classical Studies
2003-2008 Member of the ‘Network for Intercultural Onomastics’ (NIO), Trier-Oxford
since 2002 Member of the ‘DAAD Freundeskreis’, i.e. Circle of Friends of the German
Academic Exchange Service, Bonn
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