Emanuel Mayer

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Ernst Emanuel Mayer (born March 18, 1973 in Munich ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Munich, Emanuel Mayer studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Munich from the winter semester 1992/93 , in the summer semester 1995 at the University of Thessaloniki and from the winter semester 1995/96 at the University of Heidelberg . There he received his doctorate in 2001 with Tonio Hölscher . In 2001/02 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 2002/03 he was employed as a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of Heidelberg University. In 2004/05 he was a visiting scholar at Oxford University . In 2005 he became Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago . Today he teaches as Associate Professor of History at Yale-NUS College in Singapore .

Publications (selection)

  • Rome is where the emperor is. Studies on the state monuments of the decentralized empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II. Habelt, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-88467-074-3 (dissertation).
  • The ancient middle classes. Urban life and aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 BCE-250 CE . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2012, ISBN 978-0-674-05033-4 .

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