Dr. James M. Harland

• Seit 2021
  Postdoktoraler Forschungsassistent, Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
• 2020­–2021
  Postdoktoraler Forschungsstipendiat, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
• 2019–2019
  Postdoktoraler Forschungsstipendiat, DFG Center for Advanced Studies, "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
• 2018–2018
  Befristeter Lehrbeauftragter, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
• 2014–2018
  Lehrassistant, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, University of York.
• 2013–2017
  PhD in Geschichte, University of York (U.K.), These: "Deconstructing Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: A Critical Enquiry into the Study of Ethnicity in Lowland Britain in Late Antiquity, c. 350–600." Betreuer: Prof. Guy Halsall. Prüfer: Dr. James Gerrard (Newcastle).
• 2012–2013
  Master in Medieval Studies, University of York (U.K.), Dissertation: "The Saxons in the Roman Imaginary: Changing Perspectives in the Late Antique West." 
• 2009–2012 
  Bachelor in English Literature and Language, First Class Honours, University of Leicester (U.K.).

Lehre im Aufbaustudium

• SoSe 2026
  Annona Militaris: Die Römische and Nachrömische Heeresversorgung, 3.–7. Jhdt. n. Chr. (Übung im Epochmodul)
• SoSe 2026
  Das Ende des Römischen Britanniens (Übung im Epochmodul)
• WiSe 2025/6
  Material Cultural Studies: Methods
• WiSe 2025/6
  Material Cultural Studies: Theories
• 2023–2024
  Material Cultural Studies: Methods, MA Slavery & Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2023–2024
  Material Cultural Studies: Theories, MA Slavery & Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2023
  Doing Research I: Material Culture. MA Slavery & Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2023
  Riots at the end of Antiquity, c. 300­­–600. Gemeinsam geleitet mit Prof. Julia Hillner. MA Slavery and Dependency Studies & MA in History (Universität Bonn)
• 2022–2023
  Material Cultural Studies: Methods. MA Slavery & Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2022–2023
  Barbarian Military Recruitment in Late Antiquity: Gender, Property, Taxation & the Transformation of the Roman World, MA Slavery and Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2022
  Academic Writing. MA Slavery & Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2021–2022
  Barbarian Military Recruitment in Late Antiquity: Gender, Property, Taxation and the Transformation of the Roman World, MA Slavery and Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)
• 2021­–2022
  Doing Research II, MA Slavery and Dependency Studies (Universität Bonn)

Lehre im Grundstudium

• 2022–2023
  Between Toledo and Constantinople: The Visigoths on the Mediterranean (Universität Bonn)
• 2020–2021
  "Anglo-Saxons," Britain, and the aduentus Saxonum: the 'decline and fall' of a Roman province? (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
• 2018
  The Later Roman Empire, AD 235–645 (Northumbria University)
• 2017
  Narrators and Historical Memory in the Middle Ages, c. 350–1000 (University of York)
• 2017–2018
  From Rome to the Renaissance: The Transformation of Traditional Societies, c. 400–1650 (University of York)
• 2015 
  The End of the Roman World: The Transformations of the Year 600, c. 550–650 (University of York)
• 2014–2017 
  Making Histories (Department of History, University of York)

Als Moderator für mündliche Prüfungen

• 2020 
  Konstantin der Große und seine Zeit: Geschichte und Legende (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Seelsorge und Betreuung der Studierenden

• 2017–2018
  Careers Assistant, University of York Careers Service

• 2013 
  College Welfare Tutor, Vanbrugh College, University of York

• seit 2020 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. SFB 923 „Bedrohte Ordnungen“. Angestellt als Projektbearbeiter zu einem Gehalt von 65 % nach TV-L13.
• 2020
  Angebot eines Gastforschungsstipendiums, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin. Gastforschungsstipendium für Januar–Februar, 1860 € plus kostenlose Unterkunft (aufgrund des Tübinger SFB-Stipendiums nicht angenommen)
• 2019
  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sonderforschungsbereich 2496 „Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages“, Jan–Dez, 27.600 €
• 2019
  Erreichte die letzte Auswahlrunde (nach Peer-Review) für das FRIAS CO-FUND Marie Curie Early Career Fellowship, Universität Freiburg.
• 2019
  Erreichte die letzte Auswahlrunde (nach Peer-Review) für das Konstanz Zukunftskolleg Early Career Fellowship, Universität Konstanz, 2019
• 2013–2017
  Doktorandenstipendium UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, Block Grant Partnership. 40.770 £ plus Befreiung von den Studiengebühren im Wert von ca. 3.500 £/Jahr.
• 2016
  York Humanities Research Centre PG Collaborative Partnership Grant. £ 600 für "Interrogating the Germanic: a category and its use in Late Antiquity in the Early Middle Ages" (Gemeinsame Bewerbung mit Matthias Friedrich, Universität Freiburg)
• 2016
  Royal Historical Society. £ 500 für "Interrogating the Germanic"
• 2016
  Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures. £ 400 für "Interrogating the Germanic"
• 2016
  Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte, University of York. £ 380 für "Interrogating the Germanic"
• 2016
  Abteilung für Geschichte, University of York. £ 200 für "Interrogating the Germanic"
• 2015 
  Nominiert für den York Teaching Award
• 2013
  Centre for Medieval Studies Dissertation Prize, University of York. Award for the highest-scoring dissertation on the MA in Medieval Studies. £ 100.

 Internationale Gastvorträge

• 17.02.2022
  "'Anglo-Saxons?' Historiography and the Archaeology of Identity," Society of Antiquaries of London.  (Einladung von der SAL bestätigt).
• 02.2019
  The North-western Provinces in Crisis: Julian’s Campaigns on the Rhine and the Reorientation of the Late Roman Economy," University of Oxford Late Roman Seminar.
• 11.2019
  The Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain during the so-called 'Migration Age,'" Universität Konstanz.
• 10.2018
  The Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain during the so-called 'Migration Age,'" School Research Seminar, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
• 05.2018
  "Deconstructing Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: an introduction," Institute for Historical Research Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism.
• 02.2018
  "Rethinking Ethnicity in Britain During the 'Migration Period,'" Kolloquium des Seminar für Mittelaltergeschichte, University of Tübingen, Germany.
• 02.2017
  "The End of Roman Rule and the adventus Saxonum: rethinking ethnicity in post-Roman Britain," Roman Archaeology Research Seminar, University of Newcastle.

Lokale Vorträge und Seminare

• 12.2019
  "The North-western Provinces in Crisis: Julian’s Campaigns on the Rhine and the Reorientation of the Late Roman Economy," University of Tübingen, Germany.

Eingeladene Konferenzbeiträge

• 07.2021
  "Liturgification and the Visigothic Court: auctoritas between Iberia and Byzantium," Leeds International Medieval Congess.
• 04.2021
  "Can we infer ethnic identity from material culture? A comparative look at the Late Antique West," Workshop: The Archaeology of Ethnic Phenomena and the Pervasiveness of Methodological Nationalism. Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgarien. [Aufgrund von COVID-19 über Zoom durchgeführt]
• 03.2020
  "Can we infer ethnic identity from material culture? A comparative look at the Late Antique West," State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, [wegen COVID-19 abgesagt]
• 12.2019
  "Mittelalter und Politik," Workshop "Mittelalter nach der Moderne," Greven Verlag (organisiert von Prof. Dr. Steffen Patzold), Köln, Deutschland.
• 11.2019
  "The North-western Provinces in Crisis: Julian’s Campaigns on the Rhine and the Reorientation of the Late Roman Economy," Narratology for Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich.
• 11.2018
  "Militarisation in Unexpected Places? Rethinking ethnicity and the post-Roman transition at the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery of Spong Hill, Norfolk," Early Medieval Militarisation: An Archaeological Perspective, Universität Freiburg, Deutschland.
• 07.2018
  "Memories of Migration? So-called 'Anglo-Saxon' Burial Costume of the Fifth Century," Leeds International Medieval Congress.
• 12.2017
  "Britain and the Transformation of the Roman World: Rethinking Rupture, Ideology, and Time," Theoretical Archaeology Group, University of Cardiff, Wales. (gemeinsam präsentiert mit Katherine Fliegel)
• 10.2017
  "Comparing Britain and Northern Gaul: New Approaches to the Transformation Problem," The Transformation of the Roman World Reconsidered, Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Deutschland.
• 11.2016
  "Problematizing 'Otherness' in Early Anglo-Saxon Archaeology," 'Self' and 'Other': The Construction and Perception of 'Otherness' in Late Antiquity, Universität Kiel, Deutschland.
• 05.2016
  "A Habitus Barbarus in Sub-Roman Britain? Towards a differential ontological Anglo-Saxon archaeology," Interrogating the 'Germanic': A Category and its use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, University of York.
• 09.2015
  "The Saxons in the Roman Imaginary: Changing Perspectives in Late Antique Gaul," 66th Internationales Sachsensymposion, Universität Leipzig, Germany.
• 07.2015
  "The Ethnic Problem in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: towards a Derridean deconstruction," Leeds International Medieval Congress.
• 07.2014
  "The Saxons in the Roman Imaginary: Changing Perspectives in Late Antique Gaul," 66th Internationales Sachsensymposion, Leeds International Medieval Congress.
• 2013
  "The Transition from Roman to Anglian York in its wider context: an accurate model?" Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium, Aberdeen.

Mitveranstaltete Workshops, Konferenzen und Konferenzpanels

• 01–03.04.2020
  The Genetic Turn in Early Medieval Migration Research: Challenging the re-emergence of biological essentialism in pre-modern identity studies. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. [aufgrund von COVID-19 verschoben]
• 07.2019
  Material Narratives of Late Antiquity, I: Elite Sites and New Datasets. Leeds International Medieval Congress. (gemeinsam organisiert mit Andrew Welton)
• 07.2019
  Material Narratives of Late Antiquity, II: Continuity and Change. Leeds International Medieval Congress. (gemeinsam organisiert mit Andrew Welton)
• 07.2019
  Material Narratives of Late Antiquity, III: Epigraphy and Antiquarians. Leeds International Medieval Congress. (gemeinsam organisiert mit Andrew Welton)
• 07.2017
  #PublicMedievalism. Fringe workshop at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, (gemeinsam organisiert mit Sihong Lin)
• 13–15.05.2016
  Interrogating the 'Germani': a category and its use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. University of York. (Vorsitzender des Programmkomitees)

Panel Moderation 

• 07.2021
  Localities and Local Identities in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I: Inferring the Local in Late Antique and Early Medieval Archaeology. Leeds International Medieval Congress.
• 2021
  Book Launch: Mateusz Fafinski, Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain. (organised by Amsterdam University Press)
• 04.2021
  Workshop: The Archaeology of Ethnic Phenomena and the Pervasiveness of Methodological Nationalism. Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgarien. (Moderator für die Vormittagssitzung)
• 07.2019
  Late Antique Materialities, IV: Art & Materiality. Leeds International Medieval Congress.
• 07.2018
  Remembering Communities in Early Medieval Europe, II: Memory and Geography. Leeds International Medieval Congress.
• 07.2018
  The Reproduction of Medieval Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood, III. Leeds International Medieval Congress.