Staff - 3rd phase of research

Dr. Stefan R. Hauser

Main fields of research:

History and archaeology of the Arsacid (Parthian) and Sasanian Empires • Burial and social structure, specifically in the neo-Assyrian period (Habilitation thesis in preparation) • History of research • East-West contact and Orientalism • Eastern Christianity.

Senior researcher at the MLU Halle • 2004 Professor at the University of Konstanz • 2003 researcher at the SFB 586, responsible for Project C6 • 2002 paternal leave • 2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York • 2000 Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC • 1998–2002 Fellow of the German Research Foundation (Habilitandenstipendium) • 1997/98 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology and Art, University of Halle • 1995/96 Fellow for Byzantine Studies in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC • 1994 PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, FU Berlin • 1991–1994 PhD. Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and concurrently of the State of Berlin • 1986–1991 Assistent at the German Archaeological Institute, Department Baghdad • 1988 M.A. in Classical Archaeology, FU Berlin • 1982–1988 University studies of Classical, Near Eastern, Byzantine Archaeology, Prehistory,Art History and Assyriology at Bonn and Berlin.

Selected Publications:

with A. C. Gunter (ed.): Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900–1950. Leiden 2005. Darin: (a) Introduction. The Development of Near Eastern Studies up to 1950; (b) History, Races, and Orientalism – Eduard Meyer, the Organization of Oriental Research, and Herzfeld's Intellectual Heritage.

"Die Christen vermehrten sich in Persien und bauten Kirchen und Klöster" – Eine Archäologie des Christentums im Sasanidenreich. In: M. Müller-Wiener/ U. Koenen (ed.): Grenzgänge im östlichen Mittelmeerraum. Byzanz und die Islamische Welt. Wiesbaden (2005).

German Studies in the Ancient Near East in their Relation to Political and Economic Interests from the Kaiserreich to World War II. In: W. G. Schwanitz (ed.): Germany and the Middle East, 1919–1945. Princeton 2004, 155–179. (Princeton Papers 11). Deutsche Kurzversion in: Comparativ 1/2004.

with Mark Altaweel (Chicago): Travelling via Hatra: Trade Routes in the Eastern Jazira According to Evidence from Ancient Sources and Modern Satellite Imagery. In: Baghdader Mitteilungen 35 (2004), 57–84.

"Greek in Subject and Style, but a little Distorted". Zum Verhältnis von Orient und Okzident in der Altertumswissenschaft. In: S. Altekamp/M. Hofter/M. Krumme (ed.): Posthumanistische Klassische Archäologie. München 2001, 83–104.

Orientalismus. In: Der Neue Pauly. Bd. 15/1. Stuttgart/Weimar 2001, Sp. 1233–1243.

Babylon in der Arsakidenzeit. In: J. Renger (ed.): Babylon – Focus mesopotamischer Geschichte, Wiege früher Gelehrsamkeit, Mythos in der Moderne. Saarbrücken 2000 (CDOG 2), 207–239.

Zur Datierung der arsakidischen Tetradrachmen. In: R. Dittmann u. a. (ed.): Variatio delectat. Iran und der Westen. Münster 2000, 321–342.

Ecological Borders and Political Frontiers. The Eastern Jazirah in the Later Preislamic Period. In: L. Milano u. a. (ed.): Landscapes – Territories, Frontiers and Horizons in the Ancient Near East. Bd. 2. Padua 2000, 187–201.

Archäologische Methoden. In: Der Neue Pauly. Bd. 13. Stuttgart/Weimar 1999, Sp. 201–216.

Hatra und das Königreich der Araber. In: J. Wiesehöfer (ed.): Das Partherreich und seine Zeugnisse. 1998 (Historia Einzelschriften 122), 493–528.