Staff - 1st / 2nd phase of research

Gundula Mehnert, M.A.

née Tauscher

Since September 2001 collaborator at the Research Centre "Difference and Integration" in Halle • July 2000–August 2001: Scholar of a postgraduate course on "Anatolia and its neighbors" in Tübingen • June 2000: Begin of PH.D. work in Classical Archaeology • 2000 MA thesis "The "Spinario" (Dornauszieher) – an ancient motif in Christian context" • 1992–2000: Study of Art History, Classical Archaeology, Art History of Byzantium and Early Christian Archaeology in Halle and Naples with focus on the reception of antiquity; Greeks and indigenous people in Southern Italy; Settlements of the 1st millenium BC in the Southern Caucasus • 1999 Greek Language exam • Participation in excavations in Paestum (Southern Italy) 1996, 1997, 1998 (guided by Prof. E. Greco, Neapel) and in Eastern Georgia (1997, 1998, 2000, 2002) (guided by Prof. A. Furtwängler).

Selected Publications:

Reiternomadismus – Eine Übergangsform nomnadischer Lebensweise? In: Materialien des SFB "Differenz und Integration" 1 (2002), 1–12.

Der Dornauszieher – ein paganes Idol im Mittelalter? In: Hallesche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 2 (2000), 55–80.