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

Anna Sitz, PhD

A01

UP1

Ancient History

Telephone: 06221-54 3722
E-Mail: anna.sitz@uni-heidelberg.de

Address

Marstallstr. 6
Room 00.012a
69117 Heidelberg

Research Interests

Late Antique Archaeology of Asia Minor and Greece (fourth to seventh century CE)
Greek Epigraphy
Greek and Roman Sanctuaries in Asia Minor and Greece
Early Christian Churches
Byzantine Cappadocia (Turkey)
Labraunda Excavation (Turkey)

Education and Employment History

2006-2010 BA at Baylor University (Texas, USA) in the University Scholars Honors Program, with a focus on classical philology and art history

Academic career

2019-23: Heidelberg University, Postdoc and Project Leader Research group SFB 933 (Materiale Textkulturen) and the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik. Subproject A01 UP1.
2018-19: Heidelberg University, Research Associate
SFB 933. Research, teaching, and writing project proposal.
2017-18: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin & Washington, D.C.
2016-17: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Guest Researcher, Munich.

SUBPROJECT LEADER DURING EXCAVATION

since 2017: Leader of subproject „Postclassical Labraunda,“ Labraunda Excavation in Turkey

Education

2017-Dec: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.
2012: M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.
2010: B.A., Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA.
University Scholars liberal arts degree, focus Classics and Art History.

Awards and Fellowhips

2018 DAAD Short Term Grant for Fall 2018, declined
2017 President Amy Gutmann Leadership Award, UPenn
2015-2016 Phi Beta Kappa Sibley Fellowship, year stipend in Athens
2015 Louis J. Kolb Society of Fellows, Penn Museum, elected as a Junior Fellow with a year stipend
2015 Penn Museum Summer Fieldwork Funds
2015 Penn Museum Colburn Fellowship, semester stipend in Athens
2014 Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Mediterranean Regional Fellowship, semester stipend in Greece, Turkey, and Egypt
2014 Penfield Dissertation Research Fellowship, UPenn
2014 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Scholarship, for the Visualizing Venice Workshop in Digital Humanities
2013 Tousimis Third Prize for Graduate Student Paper at 2012 Byzantine Studies Conference
2012 Penn Museum Student Summer Research Grant, for “Contextualizing Cappadocia” workshop in Turkey
2011 A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship for the Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library, Athens
2010-11 Williams Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
2010 Outstanding Student, Classics Department, Baylor University

Archaeological Fieldwork

Labraunda Excavation (Director: Olivier Henry. Caria, Muğla Province, Turkey.)

2019 Subproject leader, Late Roman Cemeter excavation.
2018 Subproject leader, Late Roman Cemetery excavation.
2017 Subproject leader, Postclassical Olive Presses excavation near Built Tomb.
2016 Participant in Roman East Bath excavation.
2015 Assistant supervisor in the Andron A excavation.

Grants for my Subproject:

2019 Akmed Project Grant
2018 Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant
2017 Kolb Society Greenewalt Project Fund

Corinth Excavation (Director: Guy Sanders. Corinthia, Greece.)

2015 Trench co-supervisor in Frankish Quarter cesspit excavation.

Alabanda Excavation (Director: Suat Ateşlier. Caria, Aydın province, Turkey.)

2012-2013 Sector supervisor, late antique and Byzantine contexts in temenos of the Temple of Apollo.

Philosophiana Archaeological Project Field Survey (Directors: Kimberly Bowes, Emanuele Vaccaro, Mariaelena Ghisleni, and Gioacchino Francesco La Torre. Sofiana, Sicily.)

2011 Member of extra-site survey team.

Publications

Forthcoming “An Epigram for the Everyman? Strategies of Commemoration at a Cappadocian Tomb.” Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy 1, eds. Andreas Rhoby and Ida Toth. Brepols.
Forthcoming with Demet Delibaş. “The Tetraconch Necropolis: Middle Byzantine Labraunda.” To appear in the Labraunda Chronicles excavation report series.
2020: “Architectures of Surveillance: Houses and Stylites in the Northern Syrian ‘Dead Villages.’” In Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout, eds. Vasileios Marinis, Amy Papalexandrou, and Jordan Pickett (p. 19-33). Brepols.
2020 “Late Antique and Byzantine Caria.” In Karialılar, Denizcilerden Kent Kuruculara - The Carians, From Seafarers to City Builders, eds. Olivier C. Henry and Ayşe Belgin-Henry. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları (p. 62-77).
2019 “Beyond Spolia: A New Approach to Old Inscriptions in Late Antique Anatolia.” American Journal of Archaeology 123.4: 643-674.
2019 “Inscribing Caria: The Perseverance of Epigraphic Traditions in Late Antiquity.” In Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, eds. Stephen Mitchell and Philipp Pilhofer (p. 202-225). Brill.
2019 “Hiding in Plain Sight: Epigraphic Reuse in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias.” Journal of Late Antiquity 12.1: 136-168.
2019 “An Early Christian Cemetery at Labraunda: Report on the 2018 Excavation near the Tetraconch,” Section in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2018.” Preliminary season report: Anatolia Antiqua XXVII: 183-229.
2018 “Press Close to the Built Tomb,” Section 6.1 (p. 297-300) in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2017.” Preliminary season report. Anatolia Antiqua XXVI: 209-320. Open access at Labraunda.org.
2017 “’Great Fear:’ Epigraphy and Orality in a Byzantine Apse in Cappadocia.” Gesta 56.1: 5-26.
2016 “Andrôn A,” with O. Henry, Section 5.3 (p. 416-424) in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2015.” Preliminary season report. Anatolia Antiqua XXIV: 339-457. Open access at Labraunda.org.
2015 “Church,” “Corpse,” “Titulus,” “Vatican,” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, eds. Eric Orlin et al. Routledge.

Review

2019 K. Bolle, C. Machado and C. Witschel (eds), The Epigraphic Cultures of Late Antiquity. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2017. Review in the Journal of Roman Studies.

Online Reports

2019 "Labraunda: Byzantine Necropolis Project, 2018 and 2019"
2018 "Inscribing Temples in Greece and Asia Minor: A Diachronic View." Fellowship report in the CHS Research Bulletin 6.1, August 2, 2018.

Manuscript in Preparation

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Greek East.

Invited Lectures

2020 "The Fate of Inscriptions on Pagan Temples: Tolerance, Reuse, Destruction." Classical Antiquity and Its Heritage Colloquium, Aarhus University, Denmark, December 4.
2019 "Christian Graves at a Pagan Sanctuary: Recent Research on Late Antique and Byzantine Labraunda (Turkey)." Byzantinische Archäeologie Sommerkolloquium, Universität Heidelberg, July 19
2019 "Classical and Classicizing Inscriptions: Labraunda and Its Regional Context in Late Antiquity." Archäologisches Kolloquium, Universität Marburg, Marburg, June 13
2019 "Labraunda in the Early Christian Period: Recreating an Epigraphic Landscape." Archaeology Colloquium, Uppsala University, Uppsala, April 24
2018 "Reading Local History: Inscriptions on Temples from Antiquity to Late Antiquity." Hauskolloquium, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin, July 5
2018 "Inscribing Caria: The Perseverance of Epigraphic Traditions in Late Antiquity." Topoi Workshop "The Rise of Christianity in Asia Minor and on Cyprus." Humboldt University, Berlin, June 22
2018 "Alte Inschriften, neue Religion: Gedächtnis in Tempelkirchen." Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kustgeschichte Vorträge, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, June 19
2018 "Sacred Space, Epigraphic Display, and the Origins of Inscribing Temples in Greece and Asia Minor." Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, June 6
2018 "The Problem of Periodization: Pagan Sanctuaries in Late Antiquity." Byzantine Art Workshop, Brown University, Providence, April 14
2017 "Inscriptionsin Space (and Time): Late Antique Interaction with Older Epigraphy." Invited paper, University of Pennsylvania, April 9
2015 "Fear and Trembling: Epigraph and Viewer Response in a Byzantine Church in Cappadocia." Gennadius Library, Athens, February 12
2014 "Imprinting Identity: Individualizing Cappadocian Churches through Painted Inscriptions." Invited paper at Penn Museum Symposium "From Constantinople to Cappadocia," Philadelphia, April 13

Conference Papers

2020 "Epigraphic Erasures: ‘Grammatoclasm’ in Late Antiquity beyond Damnatio Memoriae." Erasure in Late Antiquity Workshop (Online), Trinity College Dublin, November 12-13.
2020 "Mutilation, Modification, Christianization? An Archaeological Approach to the Erasure of Inscriptions in Late Antiquity." Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2-5
2019 "Archive, Autopsy, and a Material-Text Approach: The Find Spots of Inscriptions at Labraunda." Labraunda Workshop, Istanbul, May 15
2019 "Late Antique Labraunda: Spolia, 'Unspolia,' and the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos." Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 3-6
2018 "Digging Byzantine and Frankish Trash: Material Culture from a Cesspit in Corinth (Greece)." Co-author Rossana Valente. Byzantine Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 5
2017 "Epigraphy and Oral Tradition: 'Seeing the Image' in Byzantine Cappadocia." International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Vienna, September 1
2017 "Writing on Temples: Epigraphic Habits of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods." AIA Annual Meeting, Toronto, January 6
2016 "Viewing the Past: Christian Responses to Pagan Temple Inscriptions in Late Antiquity." Byzantine Studies Conference, Ithaca, October 7
2016 "The 'Dead Villages' of Northern Syria: Surveillance and Security at Déhès." AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 8
2014 "Late Roman Epigraphy in the Forum Romanum: Fragments or Narrative?" Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS), Waco, April 2-5
2014 "Reading the Program: A Reassessment of the Tokalı Kilise Donor Inscription." Jaharis Graduate Student Conference, Boston, February 27
2012 "From Mortuary Temple to Church: Memory and Appropriation in Upper Egypt." Byzantine Studies Conference, Boston, November 3
2011 "ΜΕΓΑΣ ΦΟΒΟΣ: The Role of Reverential Fear in a Majestas Domini Composition." Byzantine Studies Conference, Chicago, October 20
2009 "Motion and Time in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue." CAMWS, Minneapolis, April 2

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Universität Heidelberg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik

2021 Summer: Proseminar Hellenistische Könige und Königinnen: Macht und Herrschaft von Alexander bis Kleopatra
2020/1 Winter: Proseminar Demokratie im Klassischen Athen
2020 Summer: Proseminar Kleinasien: Griechische Identität im multikulturellen Kontext
2019/20 Winter: Proseminar Kulte, Feste und Orakel: Griechische Heiligtümer in der Antike
2019/20 Winter: Quellenübung Late Antique Paganism
2019 Summer: Quellenübung Constantine the Great

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

2017: Organizer and Dozentin of seminar and Exkursion (research trip) to Pamphylia and Pisidia (Turkey) with Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer

Labraunda Ausgrabung

2017-19: Training students in field methodology

Programs Abroad

2016-2017 Group research trips (Exkursionen) to Cilicia, Cyprus, and Pamphylia/Pisidia with Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
2014-2016 Student associate member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece. Site visits, research, and writing dissertation
2014 Visualizing Venice Workshop for Digital Humanities at Venice International University
2012 Cappadocia in Context summer program. Through Koç University. In Istanbul and Cappadocia, Turkey
2011 Medieval Greek Summer Program, Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2010 Summer Session, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

SERVICE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

since 2019: Peer reviewer for American Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Late Antiquity, and Gephyra
since 2018: Participation in SFB 933 Themenfelder on "Sakralisierung" und "Layout, Form, Text-Image"

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Archaeological drawings in Autocad, basic proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and 3D modeling software.

Organizer of EpiDoc Workshop (digital epigraphy), Heidelberg (Nov. 28-29, 2019).

Languages

Reading: Ancient and Medieval Greek, Latin, German, Turkish, Modern Greek, French, Italian, Spanish

Speaking: German (intermediate), Turkish (intermediate), Modern Greek (elementary), Spanish (elementary)