Monika Trümper

Monika Trümper is a German classical archaeologist .

Monika Trümper studied instrumental pedagogy and violin at the Cologne University of Music from 1985 to 1990 , where she graduated as a state-certified music teacher. In 1987 she began studying classical archeology, art history and ancient history at the universities of Cologne , Munich and Paris . In 1993 she obtained her Magister Artium degree in Munich , and in 1995 she worked there with Paul Zanker with the work Living in Delos. A building history study on the change in living culture in Hellenistic times is doing his doctorate. The dissertation was awarded a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , which enabled her to travel to the Mediterranean in 1995/96 . In 1997 Trümper first became a freelancer, then an employee of the Frankfurt headquarters of Deutsche Bank , where she worked in the area of ​​internal communication. In October 1999 she became a research assistant at the Department of Classical Archeology at Heidelberg University , where she was employed until June 2005. This activity was interrupted on the one hand in 2003/04 by a time as a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University in Washington, DC , on the other hand in 2004/05 as the holder of a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . In February 2005 he completed his habilitation with the thesis The 'Agora des Italiens' in Delos. Building history, architecture, equipment and function of a late Hellenistic porticus in Heidelberg.

In July 2005 Trümper became Assistant Professor of Classical Archeology at the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill , three years later she became Tenured Associate Professor of Classical Archeology there , at the same time she declined the offer of a W3 professorship at the University of Göttingen from. In 2012 she was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . In April 2013, he was promoted to Full Professor of Classical Archeology . Trümper has been a professor at the Free University of Berlin since July 2013 .

Trümper deals with the planning and development of ancient cities, squares, bathing and living culture, the importance and management of water in ancient sanctuaries, the archaeological sources for the economy as well as the archaeological research of slavery, cultural exchange and cross-cultural perspectives in particular Sicily and Delos as well as in North Africa and thematically also here in particular on bathing and living culture. In addition, she researches the contextualization and reception of objects and monuments as well as visualization and reconstruction technologies. Field research took her to Morgantina in Sicily in 2012 , where she carried out geophysical surveys. From 2013 to 2015 she and Sandra Lucore lead an excavation project there, in which the Greek bathing complex and the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone are being examined as part of the American Excavations at Morgantina . She has been a member of the advisory board of Hesperia magazine since 2009 .

Fonts

• Living in Delos. An architectural study on the change in living culture in the Hellenistic period . Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 1998, ISBN 3-89646-318-7 ( International Archeology , Volume 46).
• The 'Agora of Italy' in Delos. Building history, architecture, equipment and function of a late Hellenistic porticus complex. Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89646-376-0 ( International Archeology , Volume 104).
• Graeco-Roman Slave Markets. Fact or fiction? Oxbow Books, Oxford 2009, ISBN 978-0-9774094-8-8 ( review of Iris Samotta at sehepunkte ).
• with Sandra Lucore (Ed.): Greek Baths and Bathing Culture. New Discoveries and Approaches. Peeters, Leuven 2013, ISBN 978-90-429-2897-8 (Babesch Supplements, Volume 23).

Web links

• Presentation on the website of the Free University of Berlin
• Monika Truemper, Associate Professor of Classical Archeology (English)