Prof. Dr. Monika Trümper

Prof. Dr. Monika Trümper is professor of Classical Archaeology . Her research focuses on Greek and Roman architecture and urbanism, and she is particularly interested in the daily life in settlements. She investigates topics like domestic architecture and decoration, bathing culture and sanitation, water management, sports and leisure facilities, and the archaeology of slavery. Gender and diversity play an important role in many of these topics, including for example diversity in private houses and clubhouses of the cosmopolitan trade port of Delos, or gender differentiation in bathing and athletic facilities. Her research interests are reflected in her fieldwork that currently includes excavation projects in Pompeii and Sicily (Agrigento, Segesta).

In her teaching, she covers material culture of the entire Graeco-Roman world and combines archaeological, literary, and epigraphic sources with a discussion of current theoretical approaches and methods. She has been the spokesperson of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies for the Freie Universität Berlin since 2013.

Prof. Dr. Henny Piezonka

Prof. Dr. Henny Piezonka is professor of Prehistoric Archaeology. She works at the interface of archaeology and cultural anthropology. This is also reflected in her teaching, which includes courses on anthropological as well as theoretical archaeology with special attention on ethical questions and decolonization agendas. Her research focuses on hunter-gatherer and pastoralist studies across North Eurasia from Germany to Mongolia, bringing together archaeological field research with ethnoarchaeological studies among contemporary hunter-fisher and herder communities in order to reach diversified, ontologically informed understandings of people and their material world.

Henny Piezonka welcomes student theses from a broad spectrum of topics in prehistoric, theoretical and anthropological archaeology, e.g. on the post-glacial Stone Age, on hunting and gathering as well as nomadic pastoral societies, on political archaeology and on the interface of archaeology and cultural anthropology.

Prof. Piezonka is on research leave during the winter semester 24/25.

Prof. Dr. Elisa Roßberger

Prof. Dr. Elisa Roßberger is junior professor for Explorative Visual Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology. She loves to think about how objects and images functioned in the lives of ancient people, and what strategies we can use today to explore them digitally. An ongoing project focuses on three thousand years of cylinder seal iconography and use in ancient Western Asia. She has also studied terracotta figurines, temple inventories, burial practices, and prestige good exchange in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. Archaeological fieldwork has taken her to Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Uzbekistan.

Her teaching often combines close inspection of material, visual, and textual sources from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria and the Levant, with theoretical readings and interdisciplinary discussions (semiotics, multimodality, political theory).

PD Dr. Maaike Groot

PD Dr. Maaike Groot coordinates the MA program. Please contact her at ma-aaw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de if you have questions about the program, application and submission procedure not covered by our website.

Maaike Groot is a researcher and lecturer in archaeozoology at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology. She teaches both practical and more theoretical courses on archaeozoology and human-animal relationships. Her research focuses on developments in animal husbandry from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval period in northwestern Europe (more specifically the supply of food and other animal products to Roman markets), pastoralism in the eastern European steppe and the role of animals in ritual and religion.