Curriculum Vitae Elisa Rossberger
Since October 2009:
Institute for Near Eastern Archeology, University of Freiburg
Contact:
e-mail: elisa_r"at"web.de
Education
1999-2006 Study of Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, and Political Science/International Relations at the Universities of Munich, Beirut and Tübingen.
2001-2002 Scholarship awarded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for one year of studies at American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
2006 Magister Artium in Near Eastern Archaeology and Political Science/International Relations at the University of Tübingen.
Since 2006 PhD-Student of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Munich.
- PhD-topic: “Shining power – Manifestation of Prestige in Jewellery from the Royal Tomb of Qatna (Syria)”
- PhD-Advisers: Prof. P. Pfälzner, Tübingen, and Prof. M. Roaf, Munich.
02/2006- 09/2009 Ph.D. scholarship awarded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) within an interdisciplinary Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg “Formen von Prestige in Kulturen des Altertums”).
Since 2005 Academic teaching at University of Tübingen.
From 10/2009 Research Assistant and lecturer at University of Freiburg.
Since 1999 Archaeological excavations at Jordan (Ba’ja), Turkey (Giricano), Lebanon (Tell Burak), Syria (Emar, Qatna) and Uzbekistan (Tilla Bulak).
Publications
- 2008 with A. Mukherjee et al. “The Qatna lion: scientific confirmation of Baltic amber in Late Bronze Age Syria”, Antiquity 82 (315), 49-59.
- Forthcoming : Perlenschmuck aus der Königsgruft von Qatna: Verteilung, Rekonstruktion und Funktion, in: Pfälzner, P. (Hrsg.), Qatna-Studien I.
- Forthcoming Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der Vorkammer (Grabungen 2007), in: Pfälzner, P. (Hrsg.), Qatna-Studien I.
Research interests
- Theoretical approaches to Near Eastern Archaeology, material culture studies
- Power, prestige and exchange in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
- Jewellery in the Ancient Near East