Material Text Cultures - Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Foundation at Heidelberg University

Dr. Rodney Ast

A02

Papyrology
Department of Papyrology

Telephone: (0)6221-54 23 34
E-Mail: rodney.ast@zaw.uni-heidelberg.de

Contact Information

Institute for Papyrology, Heidelberg University
Marstallstraße 6, 69117 Heidelberg
Tel.: ++49 6221 542334
ast@uni-heidelberg.de

Research Interests

Greek and Latin Papyrology, Palaeography and Textual Criticism
Late Antiquity
Roman Egypt and North Africa
Greek and Latin Language and Literature
Digital Humanities

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Employment

since 03/2016: Senior Research and Teaching Associate (akad. Oberrat), Institute for Papyrology, University of Heidelberg
09/2014-02/2016: Research and Teaching Associate (akad. Rat), Institute for Papyrology, University of Heidelberg
08/2009-09/2014: Academic Assistant (wiss. Mitarbeiter), Institute for Papyrology, University of Heidelberg
01/2008-07/2009: Lecturer in Classics, Columbia University
10/2007, defended (03/2008 conferred): PhD in Classics, University of Toronto
01/2005-07/2009: Project Manager, Advanced Papyrological Information System, Columbia University
01/2003-12/2004: Curator of the Papyrus Collection and Academic Assistant in the DFG-funded Halle-Jena-Leipzig Papyrus Project, University of Jena
09/2000-08/2001: Graduate Fellow, Institute for Papyrology, University of Heidelberg
1996-1997: MA in Classics, University of Toronto
1995-1996: Post-Bac in Classics, Cambridge University
1991-1995: BA in Classics with honors, Grinnell College

Prizes and Grants

2018: Planning grant for the collaborative project, “Text-Object-Person,” University of Heidelberg, Field of Focus 3
2017: “Webinars in Specialized Disciplines / Webinare in den kleinen Fächern,” E-Learning project funded by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg within the Landesinitiative Kleine Fächer in Baden-Württemberg
2011-2019: Director of the DFG-funded Sonderforschungsbereich 933 Subproject “Antike Briefe als Kommunikationsmedium (A02)” (Period 1 and Period 2)
09/2013-07/2017: DFG-NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program, “A Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri,” Cooperation Partner Prof. R.S. Bagnall, New York University (DFG Award)
09/2011-08/2012: DFG-NEH Bilateral Workshop for the Project “A Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri,” Cooperation Partner Prof. R.S. Bagnall, New York University (DFG Award)
07/2011: Hengstberger Prize, University of Heidelberg, with Dr. Patrick Sänger; funds awarded for a conference on “Minorities and Migration”

University and Professional Service, Archaeological Fieldwork, Projects

since 2018: Editor of the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
since 2017: Research Council Member, Field of Focus 3, University of Heidelberg
since 2016: Editor-in-Chief, American Studies in Papyrology Monograph Series
since 2016: Member of the International Workshop for Papyrology and Social History
09/2013-08/2016: Co-Director of the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri Project (with R.S. Bagnall)
since 2015: Research Team Member in the ERC-funded PLATINUM Project (ERC-StG 2014, n°636983), directed by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Naples. Area of responsibility: Latin ostraka from North Africa.
since 2013: Founding Director of PapPal, a site devoted to the paleography of papyri (www.pappal.info)
since 2012: Founder and Co-Editor of the Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri (with J. Cowey)
since 2011: Board Member of the DFG-sponsored Collaborative Research Center 933, Material Text Cultures, University of Heidelberg
2011-2014: Instructor with the Seminar on Unpublished Papyri in the Egyptian Museum
07/2011: Visiting Instructor at the Summer Institute in Papyrology, Provo, Utah USA
since 2010: Editorial Board Member, Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
since 2009: Papyrologist with the Berenike Project, Berenike, Egypt
since 2009: Papyrologist and Archeologist with the Amheida Project, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt

Memberships

American Society of Papyrology
Association Internationale de Papyrologues (via the ASP)
Egypt Exploration Society

Selected Publications

Monographs

Late Antique Greek Papyri in the Collection of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena [Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 45] (Bonn 2010). [Rezensionen: A. Benaissa. Tyche 27 (2012): 235]
Amheida III. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2 (New York 2016) (with R.S. Bagnall)
Documents from Berenike, Volume III. Greek and Latin Texts from the 2009-2013 Seasons (Brussels 2016) (with R.S. Bagnall)

Edited Books

Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall [American Studies in Papyrology 53] (Durham 2013) (with H. Cuvigny, T. M. Hickey and J. Lougovaya)
Observing the Scribe at Work [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta] (Leuven, forthcoming 2019) (with M. Choat, R. Yuen-Collingridge, J. Cromwell, and J. Lougovaya)

Editorial Work for the Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten Bd. 29 (Wiesbaden 2016)
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten Bd. 28 (Wiesbaden 2013)
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten Bd. 27 (Wiesbaden 2012)

Recent Journal Articles and Contributions to Scholarly Collections

“Epilogue. New Voices and New Challenges,” in: K. Vandorpe (ed.) Blackwell Companion. Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (forthcoming 2018)
“Format and Contractual Authority in Late Greek Papyri: the Patermouthis Archive,” in: M. Choat, R. Yuen-Collingridge, J. Cromwell, R. Ast, and J. Lougovaya (eds.) Observing the Scribe at Work [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta] (Leuven, forthcoming 2018)
“Berenike in Light of Inscriptions, Ostraca, and Papyri,” in: J.-P. Brun, T. Faucher, B., Redon, and S. Sidebotham (eds.) Actes du colloque “Le Désert Oriental d’Égypte durant la période gréco-romaine : bilans archéologiques” Collège de France. March 31, 2016 (Paris 2018). http://books.openedition.org/cdf/5148
“Signs of Learning in Greek Documents: the Case of spiritus asper,” in: G.N. Macedo und M.C. Scappaticcio (eds.) Actes du colloque international “Signes dans les textes, textes sur les signes”, Université de Liège, 6 et 7 septembre 2013 (Liège 2017), 143-157
“Completing (Almost) a Census Declaration: P.Heid. IV 298 + P.Lund inv. 177,” in: P. Davoli and N. Pellé (eds.) Polymatheia. Studi offerti a Mario Capasso (Lecce 2018), 15-19 (with T. Hickey)
“1–17. Latin Ostraca from Vandal North Africa,” in: J.-L. Fournet & A. Papaconstantinou (éd.), Mélanges Gascou: textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou) [Travaux et Mémoires 20/1] (Paris 2016), 7-32
“Ostraka and Stratigraphy at Amheida (Dakhla Oasis, Egypt): A Methodological Issue” in: T, Derda, A., Łajtar, & J. Urbanik (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology (Warsaw 2016), 1447-1471 (with P. Davoli)
“Codex Tischendorfianus 1, Recovered and Revisited” in: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200 (2016), 141-160 (with J. Lougovaya and A. Lifshits)
“Writing and the City in Later Roman Egypt. Towards a Social History of the Ancient ‘Scribe’”, CHS Research Bulletin 4, no. 1 (2015), http://www.chs-fellows.org/2016/03/29/writing-and-the-city-in-later-roman-egypt/
“New Evidence for the Roman Garrison of Trimithis,” Tyche 30 (2015) 1-4 (with R.S. Bagnall)
“The Receivers of Berenike. New Inscriptions from the 2015 Season,” Chiron 45 (2015), 171-185 (with R.S. Bagnall)
“Cybele on the Red Sea. New Verses from Berenike,” GRBS 55 (2015), 654-678 (with J. Lougovaya)
“The Art of the Isopsephism in the Greco-Roman World,” in: A. Jördens (ed.) Antike Magie und ihre Umwelt (Wiesbaden 2015), 82-98 (with J. Lougovaya)
“The Hand of P.Mich. III 165 and P.Bagnall 3,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 190 (2014), 231-233
“A New Fragment from Herodas's Mimes and a Snippet of Homer (P.CtYBR inv. 475),” Museum Helveticum 70 (2013), 145-156
“Two Latin Accounts on Amphora Walls from Gigthi,” Analecta Papyrologica XXIII-XXIV (2011-2012) [appeared 2013], 205-236 (with R.S. Bagnall, A. Drine und Zs. Várhelyi)
“New Perspectives on the Gemellus Archive: Sabinus and His Correspondence,” in: C. Arlt und M.A. Stadler (eds.) Das Fayyûm in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit (Wiesbaden 2013), 19-28 (with G. Azzarello)
“Schedule of Work Days,” in: R. Ast, H. Cuvigny, T.M. Hickey, J. Lougovaya (eds.) Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall (Durham 2013), 9-16
“Two 4th-Century Bilingual (Greek-Latin) Papyri,” in: L. Popko, N. Quenouille, M. Rücker (eds.) Doulika Erga: Festschrift für Reinhold Scholl zum 60. Geburtstag [Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beiheft 33] (Berlin 2012), 125-135
“A Roman Veteran and his Skilful Administrator: Gemellus and Epagathus in Light of Unpublished Papyri,” Proceedings of the 26th Congress of Papyrology (Geneva 2012), 67-71 (with G. Azzarello)
“A Letter from Taos to Markos”, in: D. Minutoli (ed.) Inedita offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65° compleanno (P.Pintaudi) (Florence 2012), 233-236 (with R.S. Bagnall)
“Korr. Tyche 611-614,” Tyche 24 (2009), 215-216
“P.Worp 27 and the Consul ‘Iulius’ Maximus,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 171 (2009), 213-215 (with N. Gonis)
“The endelechisterion of Kronos,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 55 (2009), 195-200 (with R.S. Bagnall)

Academic Interests

Greek and Latin literary and documentary papyri and the paleography of the papyri
Greek epigraphy
Cultural and Social History of Greco-Roman Egypt and Roman North Africa
Archeology of Greco-Roman Egypt
Digital Papyrology

Memberships

American Society of Papyrology
Association Internationale de Papyrologues (via the ASP)
Egypt Exploration Society
The Mommsen Society
Society of Classical Studies

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