Polly Lohmann

Polly Lohmann is a German classical archaeologist .

Polly Lohmann studied Classical Archeology, Ancient History and Latin Studies at the University of Heidelberg between 2006 and 2012, interrupted in 2010 and supported by a DAAD - Erasmus grant at the Università "La Sapienza" in Rome . During her studies she took part in excavations in Alexandria Troas , in Ulpiana , on Pantelleria and on the Palatine Hill in Rome. In February she completed her studies in Heidelberg with a Magistra Artium in Classical Archeology, the subject of the thesis was the woman's action spaces in the Roman house . In the following month she became a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Heidelberg and remained in this position until March 2013.

In April 2013, Lohmann started a doctoral degree at the University of Munich , which lasted until March 2016. Here she became a Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate School "Distant Worlds". With the help of a DAAD research grant, she also stayed at the Classics Faculty of the University of Cambridge in 2014/15 . In April and May 2016, Lohmann was a trainee in the history and classical studies editing department at the Scientific Book Society in Darmstadt . In July 2016 the doctorate took place , the title of the dissertation was graffiti as a form of interaction. Carved inscriptions in the houses of Pompeii . In August she received an exist start-up grant in the fitness startup hekori , a spin-off of the interdisciplinary center for scientific computing at Heidelberg University . In April she organized the conference on historical graffiti as sources at the University of Munich . Methods and perspectives in a young research area . Subsequently, in August and September 2017, Lohmann went again for a short time as a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School "Distant Worlds" at the University of Munich.

For the period 2017/18 Lohmann was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute for her dissertation . She took the journey around the Mediterranean in October 2017, ended her time on a scholarship but prematurely in January 2018 as they to February 2018, succeeding Hermann plow the curator of antiquities museum of the University of Heidelberg or at the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage , appointed has been. She works as an academic adviser at the Institute for Classical Archeology at Heidelberg University.

Lohmann's research focus is on the investigation of the graffiti of Roman antiquity , in particular the graffiti of Pompeii . Another focus is on gender studies and the history of mentality . She writes for Focus Online as an expert on archaeological topics and for The European on current political issues. Lohmann is co-founder of the interdisciplinary and ancient studies Distant Worlds Journal .

Publications

• Editor with Henry Albery and Laurien Zurhake: Continuities and Changes of Meaning. (= Distant Worlds Journal, Volume 1), Propyläum, Heidelberg 2016. Digitized
• Editor: Historical graffiti as sources. Methods and perspectives in a young research area. Contributions of the conference at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, 20. – 22. April 2017. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-515-12204-7 . Review by Thomas Wozniak at H-Soz-Kult
• Graffiti as a form of interaction. Carved inscriptions in the houses of Pompeii. (= Materiale Textkulturen , Volume 16), De Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057036-6 . Digitized , review at sehepunkte

Web links

• Portrait on the website of the Institute for Classical Archeology at Heidelberg University
• Personal blog

supporting documents

1. ↑ hekori
2. ^ Digitized version of the flyer
3. ^ Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage
4. ↑ Portrait of the author at The European
5. ↑ Portrait of the author at Focus-online