Supervisors at the Research Cluster Archaeology and Material Culture

  • Helen Ahner
    Everyday life history; material culture in everyday life; affect and emotion; gender; technology; sport; museum; pop culture
  • Michael Doneus
    Historical archaeology; aerial imaging archaeology; landscape archaeology
  • Basema Hamarneh
    Late antique and early Christian archaeology
  • Barbara Horejs
    Prehistory, West Asia and Europe, late Pleistocene to mid Holocene, neolithization, networks, interdisciplinary fieldwork
  • Peter Janósi
    Egyptology; history of construction; 19th-century history; iconography
  • Birgit Johler
    Museum and collection research, material culture
  • E. Christiana Köhler
    Egyptology; Old Egypt; prehistory and protohistory; archaeology
  • Marta Luciani
    Western Asian archaeology
  • Naoise Mac Sweeney
    Greek archaeology, disciplinary history
  • Gerald Moers
    Egyptian and Coptic literature; textual scholarship
  • Philip Nigst
    Prehistoric archaeology, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Pleistocene to early Holocene, Middle Palaeolithic, Upper Palaeolithic, archaeology of Neanderthals and modern humans, site formation processes, interdisciplinary approaches, lithic technology, mobility in the Palaeolithic
  • Bernhard Palme
    History of classical antiquity; papyrology
  • Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
    Prehistoric archaeology; Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages; archaeology of the human body and social identities; gender archaeology; archaeology of motherhood; kinship analyses; interdisciplinary bioarchaeology
  • Günther Schörner, retired
    Classical archaeology – Roman archaeology
  • Claudia Theune, retired
    Historical archaeology from the Migration Period to contemporary history; cultures of remembrance
  • Immo Trinks
    High-resolution geophysical archaeological prospection; developing and applying near-surface methods; survey design and data acquisition in challenging environments; advanced processing, integration and interpretation of datasets, and digital 3D documentation; Scandinavian Iron Age sites and landscapes.
  • Mária Vargha
    Social and religious history and archaeology of early and high Medieval Central and Central Eastern Europe; material culture studies; geospatial approaches to historical studies