Dr habil. Altay Coşkun Associate Professor of Ancient History ...

Altay Coşkun CV 15 July 2010
2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Oxford
University, Member of common room at Wolfson College, Oxford (until 2006)
2001 (Trinity Term/ summer semester) Teaching at Oxford University and at the University of Trier
2002-2008 ‘Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ (Research Fellow), ‘Sonderforschungsbereich’
Fremdheit und Armut. Inklusions- und Exklusionsformen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (SFB
600) (i.e. Collaborate Research Centre 600 ‘Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of
Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day’, funded by the ‘Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft’), with responsibility for
o Research Project SFB 600-A2: Roms auswärtige Freunde (‘The Foreign Friends of Rome’),
directed by Prof. Heinz Heinen; dedicated to Roman foreign policy and transnational
personal relationships, 2 nd cent. BC–1 st cent. AD; training and supervision of student
assistants
o Director of the Study group Zugehörigkeitsrechte und die Inklusion von Fremden in
politische Räume (‘Rights of Participation and the Inclusion of Foreigners into Political
Communities’), with my focus being on the history of Roman citizenship, 5 th cent. BC – 3 rd
cent. AD
2002-2008 Teaching Ancient History, nearly all periods from Classical Athens to the Later Roman
Empire, 2 or 4 hrs/week weekly, Dept. of Ancient History, Universität Trier
since 2002 Member of the ‘DAAD Freundeskreis’, i.e. Circle of Friends of the German Academic
Exchange Service, Bonn
2003-2008 Member of the ‘Network for Intercultural Onomastics’, Trier-Oxford
since 2005 Member of the ‘Mommsengesellschaft’, i.e. German Society of Classical Studies
since 2006 Member of the ‘Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands’, i.e. German
Society of Historical Studies
2006 (Sept.) Selected to represent the habilitandi in the field of Ancient History within the
Habilitandenforum of the 46. Deutscher Historikertag, Konstanz
2006-2009 Member of the 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)
2007 ‘Habilitation’ in Ancient History (~second Ph.D. thesis to be granted the venia legendi in
Greek and Roman History, i.e. to be qualified to take over a Full Professorship), Universität Trier:
Von der ‘Geißel Asiens’ zu ‘kaiserfrommen Reichsbewohnern’. Sudien zur Geschichte der Galater
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der amicitia populi Romani und der göttlichen Verehrung des
Augustus, 3. Jh. v.-2. Jh. n.Chr. (‘From the ‘Scourge of Asia’ to ‘Emperor-Venerating Provincials’.
Studies in the History of the Galatians with Special Foci on the ‘Friendship of the Roman People’
and the Divine Cult of Augustus, 3 rd Century BC to AD 2 nd Century’)
2007 (May) Shortlisted for a full professorship in Ancient History (University of Wales, Swansea)
2008 (Apr.) Selected to represent the rising generation of researchers in the in the humanities on the
Colloquia Academica of the Mainz Academy
2008 (June) Award of a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation
for the years 2009-2011 (up to 15 months)
Since 2008 Member of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)
2009 (Jan.-July) Feodor Lynen-Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics & Ancient History,
University of Exeter; August 2009-July 2012 Honorary Research Fellow of the same institution
since summer 2009: Associate Professor in the Deptartment of Classical Studies, University of
Waterloo/On. (appointed in April 2008, tenure in June 2008)
Since 2009 Member of the Association of Ancient Historians of America (AAH)
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