Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen (GSGG)

External funding received

2018
Emmy Noether research group
Establishing of an Emmy Noether research group at FU Berlin
from Oct. 2019

  • Topic: Mythical literary works of the Old Babylonian period as epistemic artefacts – as well as the question of a "Philolosophy before the Greeks"
  • Funding institution: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

    • Travel Subsidies
    Research stay at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    Oct. - Nov. 2018
  • Topic: Studium der Tontafeln der Chronik der einzigen Monarchie (alias Sumerische Königsliste)
  • Funding institution: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung


    • 2016
    Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Fellowship at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University
    Sept. 2016 - May 2017

  • Topic: A Mythical Critique of Violence
  • Funding institution: VolkswagenStiftung

    • IAA Fund for Recent Ph.D.'s for RAI Attendance
    Grant for attendance at the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Philadelphia
  • Paper: From heaven to Kish - from heaven to Eridu. The textual history of the Sumerian King List and the story of the flood
  • Funding institution: International Association for Assyriology

    • 2015
    Travel grants
    (with E. Manders)
    5 travel grants for selected participants of the Göttingen SPIRIT summer school "Ideology, Power, and Religious Change in Antiquity (3000 BC - AD 600)"
  • Funding institution: Olav-Brennhovd-Stiftung

    • 2013
    Göttingen SPIRIT summer school
    (with J. Elze, J. Hauser, E. Manders, D. Panizza, A. Wells, and C. Werner)
    A series of international summer schools at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Funding institution: Ministry for Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony (MWK)