Prof. Dr. Matthias Stern

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Academic appointments

• since 15 June 2021 W1 Junior Professor of Papyrology at LMU in conjunction with the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute
• February-14 June 2021 Research Associate in the project ‘The Roman Egypt Laboratory: Climate Change, Societal Transformations, and the Transition to Late Antiquity’; funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF
• August 2019-January 2021 Lecturer at the Department of Classical Studies and the Department of History at the University of Basel; member of the Teaching Commission for Classical Studies; temporary replacement for the representative of the middle management in the Department of Classical Studies
• August 2014-July 2019 Research assistant in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Basel; member of the History Teaching Committee
• January 2016-December 2018 Research assistant in the project ‘Change and Continuities from a Christian to a Muslim Society - Egyptian Society and Economy in the 6th to 8th Centuries’; funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF
• March 2012-July 2014 Research associate in the project ‘Police Authorities in Late Antique Egypt’ as part of the research network ‘Imperium and Officium. Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom’ at the University of Vienna; funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF

Academic education

• September 2014-June 2019 Doctoral studies in philosophy in the field of ancient history at the University of Basel; representative of doctoral and postdoctoral students in the Departmental Assembly of Ancient Studies
• October 2010-September 2013 Master's degree in Ancient History and Classical Studies, Papyrology and Epigraphy at the University of Vienna; course representative, subject tutor and student representative on the Faculty Committee and on the Committee for Women's Studies and Gender Studies of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies
• October 2007-September 2010 Bachelor's degree in Classical Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; subject tutor
• Longer research stays
• March-May 2016 Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University at the invitation of Prof. Dr Roger S. Bagnall with funding from the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel
• January-July 2013 Département des Sciences historiques and Département des Sciences de l'Antiquité of the Université de Liège at the invitation of Prof. Dr Claude Baurain and Prof. Dr Jean A. Straus (†) with funding from the Austrian Exchange Service

Research Interests

• History and society of Ptolemaic, Roman and Late Antique Egypt
• Edition and historical analysis of documentary papyri
• Institutions and procedures of ‘state’ control and administrative practice and the reaction of local communities and individuals to these
• History and culture of the Hellenistic world
• Formation and transformation of Roman republican identity(ies) during the Middle and Late Republic and the ‘Augustan Revolution’