I started teaching at a university level in Summer Term 2008 for B.A. and M.A. study programs. Since then, I have given more than 70 courses, lectures and seminars for archaeology students as well as for students of other majors who did choose a class on an archaeological topic in their interdisciplinary study program. With my Habilitation in 2018 I recieved full teaching permits in Germany, and was as visiting professor in several universities teaching at a professoral level. I did usually choose the topics for my coursesm and was fully responsible for the content and the course design, including the topics for the student presentations and term papers as well as the course bibliography. I was also responsible for the actual teaching, for supervising and evaluating the presentations given by the students, and for the marking of term papers. I am also regularily supervising Bachelor- and Master Theses in archaeology study programs.
I am also regularily counseling PhD-studens and help them in their archaeological work; however, as I am not a professor yet, I am not allowed to be the supervisor for PhD-students at German universities. When students ask me to be the supervisor for their theis, I usually want them to bring their ideas and their main interests in archaeology with them: To me it is important to help them to transfer their ideas and interests into scientific questions and subjects for Bachelor- or Master Theses. I usually do not just give them a topic to work on without their participation. As the students usually want to become future collegaues, I think it is very important to let them have as much agency as possible in their learning process.
To professionalize my academic teaching, I enrolled in the educational sciences study program “Master of Higher Education” at the University of Hamburg in 2014. This study prorgam is designed to be studied while working in academiia and is open for all persons teaching at an university level. I finished this study program in 2017 with a masters thesis on gender and diversity in archaeology B.A. study programs in Germany. Since them, I was also giving workshops on academic teaching for young archaeologists. When I started academic teaching, I found the handbooks and trainings for academic teaching not very helpful for me as an archaeologist, as our main subjects, like objects and traces of past humans as well as remains of past humans themselves, have to be treated and teached differently then texts and images. Usually, students have to learn first how to observe the archaeological record, features and finds, and have to find new ways of thinking for them. To make other colleagues aware of the peculiarities of archaeological teaching and to introduce them to theories and methods of modern academic teaching, I designed the mentioned workshop for young colleagues.
I reflect regularily on my blog archaeologiskop, URL https://archiskop.hypotheses.org/ on my academic teaching. Especially during the Covid-19-Pandemic, when I had to transfer my semiars and lectures to online classes within a few weeks, I did write about this process in some articles there. This articles were also featured and used by other collegaues facing the same problems. During the pandemic, I did also use digital tools to give students the possibility to tell about their expectations and fears in reference to the new way of studying archaeology remotely and digital; with their permission, I did also write about their responses on my blog. Furthermore, I am also researching on archaeology study programs in Germany, and publish regularily about it as well as about teaching methods in archaeology an theoretical approaches to teaching in archaeology in journals and edited volumes.
I am using a wide variety of teaching methods. The choosen methods and approaches depend on the one hand on the type of class and the numbers of students attending, on the other hand on the subject and the previous knowledge I can expect from the students. Whenever possible, I try to include suggestions and requests from the students as well. My favorite type of class, however, are seminars where I can work with the students on archaeological material. The offered position as associate professor in the Department of Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History would provide much potential to develop courses for students on B.A. and M.A. levels as well as PhD-students to work with them on archaeological material of the museum.
Since several years I am teaching archaeological courses at the following universities:
- Freie Universität Berlin
- University of Bonn
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittemberg
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
- Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
- University of Lüneburg
The entries are first sorted by the university where the classes did take place, and second in which term they were offered. For each class, the titel and a brief overwiev over the covered topics are given. The last lines of each entry indicate the type of class, the students it was offered for as well as the exams that took place in it. I was for all courses responsible for content and course design, including the topics for the student presentations and term papers as well as the course bibliography; I was responsible for teaching, for supervising and evaluating the presentations given by the students, and for the marking of term papers.
Teaching at Freie Universität Berlin
Study Programs:
- B.A. Altertumswissenschaften, Schwerpunkt Prähistorische Archäologie
- M.A. Prähistorische Archäologie
Reading course in Gender Archaeology - from the beginnings to current discussions
Texts read and discussed (2 per session): Conkey/Spector 1984 & Engelstad 2007 | Bösl 2017 & Kranzbühler 2020 | Kästner 1997 & Ghisleni/Jordan/Fioccoprile 2016 | Skogstrand 2011 & Moen 2019 | Röder 2010 & Rebay-Salisbury 2017 | Hofmann 2014 & Steding 2021 | Fries 2017 & Gutsmiedl-Schümann/Helmbrecht 2017 | Matic/Jensen 2017 & Veit 2014 | Moral 2016 & Blackmore 2011 | Joyce 2006 & Fuglestvedt 2014 | Reinhold 2005 & Brumbach/Jarvenpa 1997 | Wylie 1992 & Robb/Harris 2018 | Conkey 2003 & Hofmann/Stockhammer 2017
reading course - two hours per week, for M.A. students - taught in Winter Term 2021/2022 (partly in person, partly digitally because of ongoing Covid-19-Pandemic)
Early archaeologists and their media representation Topics: Introduction | History of Archaeologies | Early Archaeologists in different media (overview) | Case study: Heinrich Schliemann in the British Museum | Science Communication and Storytelling | Case Study: The movie “The Dig Podcasts | Social Media: Instagram and Twitter | Presentations by students on early Archaeologists: Biography, temporal context, analysis of previous medial presentation, including their own proposal for a media presentation
practical exercise - three hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: Presentation; taught in Winter Term 2021/2022 (digitally because of ongoing Covid-19-Pandemic)
How to analyze a Merovingian cemetery? Methods, practice, examples
Topics: Introduction to cemetery analysis | Chonology of the Merovingian period | Typology | databases | mapping of chronological stages | textile finds | children’s graves | graves of old people | Graves with weapons | Graves with fibulae | Summary and conclusion
practical exercise, three hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: Portfolio; taught in winter term 2021/2022 partly on-site, partly digital (due to ongoing Covid-19- Pandemic)
Burial customs and social structure as seen in merowingian graves and cemeteries
Topics (lecture): Archaeology and death | Do Merovingian cemeteries mirror the population? | Memoria and representation in burial rites of the Merovingian period | Elites of the Merovingian Period and their Graves: The Tomb of Childerich | The elit burials beneath the Cologne Cathedral | Children: Individuals of the Age Groups Infans I and II | On the Way to Adulthood: Subadult Individuals | The Category “Genderïn the Early Middle Ages | Between Battle and Craftwork: Men of the Merovingian Period | The Court Lady and the maid: Women of the Merovingian Period | Old People in the Merovingian Period | Health and healthcare in the Early Middle Ages | Strangers in the Early Middle Ages | Professions in the Merovingian Period? | Summary and conclusion Topics (seminar): Chronology of the Merovingian Period | Social Structures of the Merovingian Period | Religion in the Merovingian period | Secondary grave openings | Research techniques for bibliography and term paper | as well as presentations by students matching the topics of the lecture
Lecture, one hour per week, and seminar, one hour per week, in close combination, for B.A. students - exam: written exam; taught in Winter Term 2021/2022 (partly digitally because of ongoing Covid-19-Pandemic)
Databases in archaeology
Topics: Introduction into databases | concept, design, and programing of databases | drafting of databases with ER-diagrams | databases in archaeology: examples | data input: forms and input assistance | quantitative and qualitative data | queries | SQL | using of data: the example of seriation | writing catalogues with SQL
Workshop / Seminar, three hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students who are about to start writing the final exams; taught in Summer Term 2019
Archaeology in documentary films
Topics: Introduction into documentary films | Storytelling and narrativs - discussion of the documentary film „Tatort Eulau“ | introduction into film critics | „docusoaps “ | documentaries of experimental archaeology | design of a questionaire (to be used at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) | public outreach and tourism | selected presentations of reviews
Seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: oral presentation; taught in Summer Term 2019
Digital storytelling as public outreach for archaeology
Topics: Introduction into Twine and non-linear storys | educational games | audiences | diction and „images in the head“ | perception of time | perspectives | stereotypes | narratives
Seminar with practice, three hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: oral presentation of a Twine-project the students designed and programed during the term; taught in Summer Term 2019
More than treasure and adventure: communicating with the public in ancient studies
Topics: Introduction | press office and press relations | films in archaeology | What’s a topic? Simulation of an editorial meeting | radio | popular science magazines | podcasts | How to communicate with journalists | social media | pictures and images | museums and exhibitions | computer games
Seminar with practice, three hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students - exam: writing an article for a popular science magazin; taught in Summer Term 2019 together with Nina Diezemann, press relations of Freie Universität Berlin, and Hauke Ziemssen, Excellence Cluster Topoi
Visual representations of the past = images of the past? Critical reflections on reconstructions in archaeology
Topics of the lecture: Introduction | the meaning of color | images of houses and settlements | living in Hallstatt | images of violence? | images in museums as long-living images? | static pictures - moving pictures | political dimensions of reconstructions and images | archaeology, images and conspiracy theories | TV-documentaries: The example of „legends of the lost (1/01)“| virual reality: The example of Ullastret, Spain Topics of the seminar: Introduction | political dimensions of reconstructions and images | images in school textbooks | images in non-fictional Books for Young Readers | images in popular science books | images in popular science magazines | two-dimensional images in museums | three-dimensional images in museums | TV-documentaries | Living history and reenactment | role-play | computer games | virual reality
Lecture, one hour per week, and seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: written thesis; taught in Winter Term 2018/2019
Food and drink in prehistoric times
Colloquium, three hours per week, and full-day conference simulation, organized and conducted by participants at 18.02.2019, for M.A. students. - exam: giving a paper at the conference simulation and writing a popular article; the articles were published in a journal and were given to the visitors at the conference simulation; taught in Winter Term 2018/2019
Archaeology as source of social history in Early Medieval times
Topics: Sources and methods | cemeteries | settlements | early medieval elites | religion | foreigners |diseases and crisis | women | men | elder | children | current research
Lecture, one hour per week, for B.A. students - no exam; taught in Summer Term 2018
Introduction into ancient studies
Topics: Graves and burials in prehistoric times | physical anthropology | prehistoric settlements | archaeology of economics | social archaeology | culture and change
Lecture, approx. one hour per week (part of a lecture given by all archaeologies and subjects of ancient studies at Freie Universität Berlin) for B.A. first-year students - exam: written examination; taught in Summer Term 2018
Pre- and early historical periods III: Pre-Roman Iron Age
Topics: From urnfield culture to early Iron Age | chronology of Hallstattzeit | the site of Hallstatt | settlements in the early Iron Age | „Fürstensitze“ and „Fürstengräber“ | Westhallstattkreis – Osthallstattkreis | chronology of La Téne-Zeit | the site of La Téne | settlements in the late Iron Age | Viereckschanzen | La Tène graves | art of the Iron Age | chronology and graves of Jastorf-culture | the site of Jastorf | the Billendorf culture | pre-Roman Iron Age in the North | the Fritzens-Sanzeno-culture | Brandopferplätze in the alps | the baltic cultures of the pre-Roman Iron Age
Lecture, two hours a week, for B.A. students - exam: written examination; taught in Winter Term 2017/2018
„Clothes make the man…“ - clothing and reconstructions of clothes in prehistoric times
Colloquium, three hours per week, and full-day conference simulation, organized and conducted by participants at 05.02.2018, for M.A. students. - exam: giving a paper at the conference simulation and writing a popular article; the articles were published in a journal and were given to the visitors at the conference simulation; taught in Winter Term 2017/2018
Archaeology of the north atlantic region
Topics of the lecture: Introduction, landscape/seascape and chronology | The coastline of Norway from Ice Age to Iron Age | The coastline of Norway during Vikign Age | Christianisation of Scandinavia | Orkney & Shetland: From Neolithic to Viking Age | Faroe Islands during Viking Age and Medieval times | Iceland during Viking Age and Medieval times | The Norse settlement of Greenland | Vikings at Newfoundland | Archaeology at Svalbard Topics of the seminar: Images and written sources | central places | settlement and crafts | trade and exchange | ships and seafaring | world of the dead | archaeology of the law
Lecture, two hours per week, and seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught in Summer Term 2017
Seminar to the practical training module: Issues of the working world
Topics: What is the working world looking like for archaeologists | power and hierarchies | gender and diversity | cultural heritage and academic research: area of conflict? | communicating archaeology to the public | publish and review
Seminar, two hours per week, for M.A. students - exam: written thesis; taught in Summer Terms 2017 & 2018
Basics and methods of prehistoric archaeology
Topics: How to work scientifically | prospection | archaeological excavation and heritage laws | dating and chonology | maps and GIS | archaeological experiments | prehistoric archaeology and related disciplines: The examples of Schöninger Speere, Neandertaler, Ötzi, Sky Disc of Nebra, “Keltenfürstöf Hochdorf, prehistoric mining and cemetery of Hallstatt, battle of Harzhorn, settlement Feddersen-Wierde, grave of Childerich | introduction into archaeological theory | the history of prehistoric archaeology | job prospects in archaeology | archaeology and media
Lecture, one hour per week, and seminar, one hour per week, in close combination, for first year B.A. students - exam: written exam; taught in Winter Term 2016/2017
Medicine and health care in prehistoric times
Colloquium, three hours per week, and full-day conference simulation, organized and conducted by participants at 01.02.2017, for M.A. students. - exam: giving a paper at the conference simulation and writing a popular article; the articles were published in a journal and were given to the visitors at the conference simulation; taught in Winter Term 2016/2017
Sources and methods for research on early christianity between Rhine and Danube
Topics: Early christianity in the Roman provinces at Rhine and Danube | christian identity – roman continuity | archaeological sources | St. Severin and his time | from Childerich to Clodwig – christianisation of the Franks | arianism | church architecture | early christianity in the alps | Aquileia and Salzburg | proselytization
Lecture, one hour per week, for B.A. students - no exam; taught in Winter Term 2016/2017
Pre- and early historical periods IV: the first millenium AD
Topics: Sources, classifications and chonology | written text and archaeological record | From Augstus to the Marcomannic Wars | From the Marcomannic Wars to the invasion of the Huns | From the invasion of the Huns to the langobardic conquest of Italy | merowingian and carolingian times north of the alps | migration and mobility during the first millenium AD | mounted nomads in the first millenium: Huns - Avars - Magyars | archaeology of the Slavs | Scandinavia during the first millenium AD| animal art in the first millenium AD | social groups in the first millenium AD
Lecture, 2 hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: written examination; taught in Summer Term 2016 & 2018
Burial customs and social structure as seen in merowingian graves and cemeteries
Topics: How to analyze a cemetery | beginning and end of the so-called Reihengräberhorizont | re-opened graves | early churches and christianisation | social structure of merowinigian times | what physical anthropology can tell | age and gender | womens graves | mens graves | childrens graves | the elderly at merovingian times | special graves
Lecture, one hour per week, and seminar, one hour per week, in close combination, for B.A. students - exam: written exam; taught in Summer Term 2016
Teaching at University of Bonn
Study Programs:.
- B.A. Archäologien (major, minor)
- M.A. Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Archäologie der Römischen Provinzen
- M.A. Frühgeschichtliche Archäologien Europas
- M.A. Archäologische Wissenschaften
Publishing and science communication in the digital age
Topics: Introduction | Writing scientifically | Publishing scientifically | Science communication | Writing and Publishing Science Journalism | Marketing Scientific Marketing Scientific Publications: Press and Public Relations | Gamification - Games and Public Relations | Science Communication via Social Media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & co. | Science Blogs | Science Slam and comparable formats | Podcast & Radio | YouTube and comparable video formats | Special interest magazines & non-fiction books
Colloquium - one hour per week, for M.A. students - taught in Summer Term 2021 digitally (due to the ongoing of Covid-19-Pandemic)
“warrior societies” in interdisciplinary and diachronic perspective (taught in digital winter term 2020/2021)
Topics: Introduction: “warrior societies?” | Prehistoric Masculinities | The practice of warfare | Analogies: “warrior societies” and North American Indians | places of war: The Harzhorn battle; the mass grave of Lützen and similar features | traces of “warrior societes”: bog offerings, Großromstedt | weapon graves = “warrior graves”? | individuals in a “warrior society” | mobil “warrior societies” | modern perspectives on “warrior societies”: science communication and reenactment
Seminar, two hours per week, taught with Prof. Dr. Michael Schmauder, for advanced B.A. and M.A. students - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught in Winter Term 2020/2021 as online class
Archaeology as source of social history in Early Medieval times (taught in digital winter term 2020/2021)
Topics: Sources and methods | cemeteries | settlements | early medieval elites | foreigners | diseases and crisis | religion | children | women | men | elderly | disabled | current research
Lecture, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students - no exam; taught in Winter Term 2020/2021 as online class
Archaeology of the north atlantic region (taught in digital summer term 2020)
Topics of the lecture: Introduction, landscape/seascape and chronology | The coastline of Norway from Ice Age to Iron Age | The coastline of Norway during Vikign Age | Christianisation of Scandinavia | Orkney & Shetland: From Neolithic to Viking Age | Faroe Islands during Viking Age and Medieval times | Iceland during Viking Age and Medieval times | The Norse settlement of Greenland | Vikings at Newfoundland | Archaeology at Svalbard
Topics of the seminar: Images and written sources | central places | settlement and crafts | trade and exchange | ships and seafaring | world of the dead | archaeology of the law
Lecture, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. stuents, and seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught in digital Summer Term 2020 as online class
Visual representations of the past = images of the past? Critical reflections on reconstructions in archaeology (taught in digital summer term 2020)
Topics: Introduction | methods and theory | political dimensions of reconstructions and images | images in school textbooks | images in non-fictional Books for Young Readers | images in popular science books | images in popular science magazines | two-dimensional images in museums | three-dimensional images in museums | TV-documentaries | Living history and reenactment | role-play | computer games | virual reality
Seminar, two hours per week, for advanced B.A. students and M.A. students - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught in digital Summer Term 2020 as online class
Archaeology of south Scandinavia and northern Germany (taught in digital summer term 2020)
Topics: Introduction | virtual museums? | virtual travelling with google maps and google Street View: The example of Jelling (Denmark) | archaeological sites in 3D: Photogrammetry at Avaldsnes (Norway) | virtual travelling with video? - introduction in film review | grave mounds and viking ships | living in the early middle ages | the real North - virtual? | virtual archaeology in Scandinavia | virtual museums collections
Seminar with practical elements, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students - exam: oral presentation; taught in digital Summer Term 2020 as online class
Basics and current research in archaeology of the first millenium AD
Topics: Europe during the first millenium AD: Geography, landscape, historical and political context| archaeological sources and chronology | From Augstus to the Marcomannic Wars | From the Marcomannic Wars to the invasion of the Huns | From the invasion of the Huns to the langobardic conquest of Italy | merowingian and carolingian times north of the alps | from first trading places in the North to the normannic conquest of England | Britain after the Romans | Avars and Slavs | trade and exchange | animal art in the first millenium AD | social groups in the first millenium AD | identities | people and environment
Lecture, two hours per week, taught with Dr. Ernst Pohl, for B.A. students - exam: written thesis; taught in Winter Term 2013/2014 & 2014/2015 & 2015/2016
The Baltic region
Topics: Marija Gimbutas: The Balts | Iron Age in the Baltic region | cemtery Marvele | archaeology of western Lithuania | settlements of Szwajcaria-Osinki | cemetery Oberhof | Grobin as Varangian base | the Baltic region in the Viking Age | hanseatic towns | Livonian Brothers of the Sword | Danish crusades and conquests in eastern Baltic | Inflanten | Herder-institute in Riga | the Baltic from Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact to 1990-1991
Seminar, two hours per week, and two-weeks Excursion, taught with Prof. Dr. Michael Schmauder and Dr. Ernst Pohl, for B.A. and M.A. students - exam: oral exam; taught in Winter Term 2013/2014 & Summer Term 2014 (Excursion)
Cemetery analyses
Topics: cemeteries as archaeological source | chronology and dating methods | intentional and functional data | archaeology and physical anthropology, sex and gender | induction and deduction; hermeneutics | grave architecture | grave equipment and grave goods | where are grave goods placed? | re-opened graves | development of early medieval cemeteries | interpretation of analyses and maps | example of cemetery Aschheim-Bajuwarenring | example of cemetery Straubing-Bajuwarenstraße
Seminar with practical elements, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: oral presentation; taught in Summer Term 2013 & Winter Term 2014/2015
Introduction into pre- and early historical archaeology II: analyses, models, interpretations
Topics: History of pre- and early historical archaeology | theories in pre- and early historical archaeology | analyzes of grave finds | elite graves | clothing and reconstructions of clothes | social structure of prehistoric societies | burial rituals | settlement sites | single finds | hoard finds | square enclosures: Viereckschanzen | symbolic objects | mapping as method | the term ärchaeological culture ethnic interpretation | exchange | migration | crafts | landscape and environmental archaeology
Seminar, two hours per week, for first-year B.A. students - exam: written exam; taught in Summer Term 2013
Bronze Age in Southern Germany
Topics: chronology | metallurgy | hoards | environment, agriculture and livestock farming | settlement, trade and society | burial ritual and religion | early bronze age cemeteries and cultures | early bronze age settlements at lakes | hilltop settlements | examples of archaeological finds | middle bronze age grave mounds | bronze age graves with chariots | graves and settlements of urnfield culture
Seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: written thesis; taught in Winter Term 2012/2013
Databases in archaeology
Topics: Introduction into databases | research history | databases in archaeology: examples | concept, design, and programing of databases | drafting of databases with ER-diagrams | using Microsoft Access or Open Office Base for archaeological databases | data input: forms and input assistance | quantitative and qualitative data | queries | SQL | using of data: the example of seriation | example WinBASP
Seminar with practical elements, two hours per week, for B.A. students - exam: written exam; taught in Summer Terms 2008 and 2012
Burial places at the periphery of the carolingian empire
Topics: The Nordkreis after Frauke Stein | the Südkreis after Frauke Stein | carolingian cemeteries in Lower Saxony | Liebenau | the cemetery of Dunum | the cemeteries of Zetel, Ketzendorf, Maschen and Oldendorf | the graves of Haithabu | burial rites in Denmark from 8th until 11th century | the cemetery of Ralswiek | carolingian cemteries in northern Bavaria | the cemetery of Wimm, Austria | the cemeteries of Garabonc I-II and Zalaszabar-Dezsősziget | the cemeteries of Pókaszepetk | carolingian graves in Croatia | the cemetery of Nové Zámky | the graves of Mikulčice | cemeteries from the 6th to the 9th century at the lower Danube
Seminar, two hours per week, for third-year B.A. students and M.A. students - exam: written thesis; taught with Prof. Dr. Jan Bemmann in Winter Term 2009/2010
Introduction into pre- and early historical archaeology I: Sources, methods, evidence
Topics: What is pre- and early historical archaeology? | sources, finds and features | the three-age system | typology | relative chronology | absolute chronology | archaeology and related disciplines | technology
Seminar, two hours per week, for first-year B.A. students - exam: written exam; taught in Winter Term 2009/2010
Teaching at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittemberg
Archaeology as source of social history in Merovingian times (taught in digital winter term 2020/2021)
Topics: Sources and methods | cemeteries | settlements | early medieval elites | foreigners | diseases and crisis | religion | children | women | men | elderly | disabled | occupational groups | lifeworlds and identities | current research
Lecture, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students - no exam; taught in Winter Term 2020/2021 as online class
Archaeology of the Early Middle Ages in visual representations of the past: Critical reflections on visual science communication (taught in digital winter term 2020/2021)
Topics: Introduction | methods and theory | settlementds and houses | comics and graphic novels | political dimensions of reconstructions and images | images in school textbooks | images in non-fictional Books for Young Readers | images in popular science books | images in popular science magazines | two-dimensional images in museums | three-dimensional images in museums | TV-documentaries | Living history and reenactment | role-play | computer games | virual reality
Seminar, two hours per week, for M.A. students - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught in digital Winter Term 2020/2021 as online class
Teaching at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Visual representations of the past = images of the past? Critical reflections with focus on gender
Topics: Introduction | Discussion of popular examples | case studies from the stone age to the middle ages | public outreach
Seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught partly digitally in Summer Term 2023
Teaching at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
Introduction into pre- and early historical archaeology: Material culture as source of European History
Topics: Introduction: What is archaeology? | prospection | archaeological excavation | dating and chronology | archaeology and related disciplines | stone ages | metal ages | from Roman to medieval times | One-day excursion: Archaeological Museum Hamburg | One-day excursion: Archäologischer Wanderpfad Fischbeker Heide
Seminar, four hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students of non-archaeological study programs - exam: oral presentation and written thesis; taught regularily since autumn trimester 2012
Teaching at Leuphana University Lüneburg
Archaeological-historical perspective of cultural identity
Topics: Human-made objects as source of cultural identity? | … and what about the people themselves? Research of physical anthropology and paleogenetics on cultural identity | (Re)constructed identities of the past in political discourses of the present | Visual representations of the past = images of the past? Critical discussion of representations of cultural identity | The past as a place of longing? | Case Studies - Students’ Examples | Archaeological-Historical Perspective of Cultural Identity - Relevant for our Present?
Seminar, two hours per week, for first-semester B.A. students of non-archaeological study programs - exam: written thesis; taught in Winter Term 2019/2020 and 2020/2021
Diseases and health care in roman period, late antiquity and early middle ages
Topics: Introduction | medicine in Roman texts: Celsus and his oeuvre | medical doctors and patients in Rom | medical specialists | medical doctors and their houses in Pompeji | Roman baths | health care in Roman provinces | medical care in Roman army | women and medicine | medicine and health care outside of the Limes | diseases of the early middle ages as seen in cemeteries | protheses, medical aids and pharmaceutics in every-day live | the Justinianic plague
Seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students of non-archaeological study programs - exam: written thesis; taught in Winter Term 2011/2012 and Summer Term 2018
visual representations of the past = images of the past? A critical review especially with focus on gender and diversity
Seminar, two hours per week, for B.A. and M.A. students of non-archaeological study programs - exam: written thesis; Winter Term 2017/2018 and Summer Term 2019