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Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • Sozialgeschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit 
  • Römische Stadtkultur der Spätantike 
  • Haus- und Familiengeschichte 
  • Verbrechen, Disziplin und Bestrafung 
  • Gender-Forschung 
  • Digitale Geisteswissenschaft (insb. digitale Prosopographie und Netzwerkforschung)

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Lebenslauf

  • seit 2025
  • W-3 Professorin für Alte Geschichte
  • 2021-2025 
  • W-3 Cluster-Professorin, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
  • 2017–2021
    Ordentliche Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der University of Sheffield, UK. 
  • 2016–2017 
    Reader für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der University of Sheffield, UK. 
  • 2014–2015 
    Senior Lecturer für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der University of Sheffield, UK. 
  • 2008–2014
    Lecturer für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der University of Sheffield, UK. 
  • 2003
    Lehrbeauftragte für Frühchristentum, Religionen und Theologie, University of Manchester, UK.
  • 2001–2002
    Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester, UK.
  • 2001
    Abschluss der Promotion in dem Fach Alte Geschichte an der Universität Bonn.
  • 1997
    Erstes Staatsexamen in den Fächern Geschichte, Italienisch und Bildungswissenschaften an der Universität Bonn.
  • 2026–2027 
    Volkswagen Foundation "Open Up – New Research for the Humanities and Cultural Studies" Grant for The Nameless in History (PI, zusammen mit Pia Wiegmink und Jamie Wood)
  • 2023–2025
    AHRC and DFG Grant for Connecting Late Antiquities (PI, zusammen mit Richard Flower)
  • 2021
    British Academy Conference Grant 2021, Reassessing Rome after Empire: An Urban History Approach (Co-PI)
  • 2018–2020
    Leverhulme Trust Project Grant Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (PI)
  • 2014–2017
    Arts and Humanities Research Council Project Grant, The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (PI)

  • Mitglied der Fakultät für Archäologie, Geschichte und Literatur der British School at Rome.
  • Gewähltes Mitglied und Treuhänderin des Rates der Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
  • Mitglied des Vorstands des Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinland (2025-)
    Co-Sprecherin des DFG-Exzellenzclusters Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (2024-) 
  • Assoziiertes Mitglied, Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Sapienza Università di Roma (2023-).
  • Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats, Accademia Romana Constantiniana, Università di Perugia (2023-).
  • 2025-2026 Fellowship, Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations”, Max Weber Kolleg, Universität Erfurt
  • 2024 Visiting Professorship, Sapienza Università di Roma
  • 2023 Barbara Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies, from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, für Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire.
  • 2021-2026 Honorary Research Professor, Department of History, University of Sheffield
  • Folge-Stipendium, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung, Herbstsemester 2017–2018
  • 2016 PROSE Awards Honorable Mention für Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: CUP, 2015)
  • Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung (2011/12)
  • Senatsauszeichnung für hervorragende Leistungen in Lehre und Lernen, Kategorie Zusammenarbeit, Sheffield (2011)
  • Postdoktorandenstipendium der British Academy (2003–2008)
  • Graduiertenförderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (1998–2000)

Publikationen

Monographien 

  • 2023. Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire. New York: Oxford University Press. 
  • 2015. Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2004. Jedes Haus ist eine Stadt: Privatimmobilien im spätantiken Rom. Bonn: R. Habelt.

Sammelbände

  • 2026. Mit C. Goodson. A Companion to Rome, c. 400–c. 1050, 2 Bde. Brill's Companions to European History 32.1–2. Leiden: Brill. 
  • 2016. Mit J. Engberg and J. Ulrich. Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 17. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • 2007. Mit K. Cooper. Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thematische Hefte in Wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften

  • 2025. Mit L. Hellman, D. Grey, and R. Jean-Baptiste. Gender and Segregation. Sonderausgabe von Gender & History 37.3.
  • 2019. Waves Across the Pond: Exiling Clerics in Late Antiquity. Sonderausgabe von Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal, Bd. 3.3.
  • "A Ladies’ Man: Julian Augustus as Son, Husband and Emperor", Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 2026 (in Druckvorbereitung)
  • 2025. Mit J. Wood, H. Williard, M. MacCarron, and J. Burns. "Problems and Possibilities of Namelessness in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages." Medieval People 40 (in Druckvorbereitung).
  • 2025. Mit L. Hellman, D. Grey, R. Jean-Baptiste. "Gender and Segregation: An Introduction." Gender & History 37.3, 795–804. Open Access
  • 2022. Mit M. MacCarron and U. Vihervalli. "The Politics of Female Namelessness between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages." Journal of Late Antiquity 15, 367–401.
  • 2020. Mit S. Prado, A. Bazzan, S. Dahmen, and M. MacCarron. "Gendered Networks and Communicability in Medieval Historical Narratives." Advances in Complex Systems 23, 1–22.
  • 2019. "Imperial Women and Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity." Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal, vol. 3.3, 369–412.
  • 2019. "Empresses, Queens and Letters: Finding a ‘Female Voice’ in Late Antiquity?" Gender & History 31, 353–382. Open Access
  • 2019. Mit dem Redaktionskomitee des of Journal of Roman Studies. "Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies." Journal of Roman Studies 109, 441–448. Open Access
  • 2017. "A Woman's Place: Imperial Women in Late Antique Rome." Antiquité tardive 25, 75–94.
  • 2013. "Confined Exiles: An Aspect of the Late Antique Prison System." Millennium. Jahrbuch zur Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausend n. Chr. 10, 385–433.
  • 2011. "Gregory the Great's Prisons: Monastic Confinement in Early Byzantine Italy." Journal of Early Christian Studies 19, 433–471.
  • 2009. "Monks and Children: Corporal Punishment in Late Antiquity." European History Review/Revue européenne d'histoire 16, 773–791.
  • 2007. "Monastic Imprisonment in Justinian’s Novels." Journal of Early Christian Studies 15, 205–237.
  • 2006. "Clerics, Property, and Patronage: The Case of the Roman Titular Churches." Antiquité tardive 14, 59–68.
  • 2004. Mit C. Leyser. "The Fruits of Research: Supporting the Arts and Humanities." JISC Inform 5, 21–22.
  • 2003. "Domus, Family, and Inheritance: The Senatorial Family House in Late Antique Rome." Journal of Roman Studies 93, 129–145.
  • 2001. "Die Berufsangaben und Adressen auf den stadtrömischen Sklavenhalsbändern." Historia. Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 50, 193–216.
  • 1993–4. Mit O. Prothmann and P. Liebner. "Hinweise für Benutzer von Kirchenbüchern im Stadtarchiv Bonn." Bonner Geschichtsblätter 43–44, 121–132.
  • 2026. "Law and Justice in Late Antiquity." In A Companion to Rome, c. 400–c. 1050, hrsg. von J. Hillner and C. Goodson, 287–313. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2026. Mit C. Goodson. "Introduction." In A Companion to Rome, c. 400–c. 1050, hrsg. von J. Hillner and C. Goodson, 1–33. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2025. Mit M. MacCarron. "Social Network Analysis." In A Companion to Roman Prosopography, hrsg. von M. Horster, R. Flower, F. Hurlet, R. Mathisen, 151–181. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2025. Mit H. Mawdsley. "Women and Exile in Late Antiquity." In Norms of Dependency in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies, hrsg. von M. Becher, M. Schermaier, and J. Winnebeck, 181–211. Berlin: De Gruyter. Open Access
  • 2024. "Imperial Women After Curtains." In Empress-in-waiting. Female Power and Performance at the Late Roman Court, hrsg. von C. Rollinger, N. Viermann, 262–271. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • 2021. "Prólogo." In Mujeres imperiales, Mujeres reales: Representaciones públicas y representaciones del poder en la Antigüedad tardía y Bizancio, hrsg. von M. Chiriatti, xiii–xvi. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2021. With M. MacCarron. "Female Networks and Exiled Bishops between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: The cases of Liberius of Rome and Wilfrid of York." In Relations of Power: Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages, hrsg. von R. Hardie, I. Dumitrescu, E. Berat, 19–44. Bonn: Bonn University Press.
  • 2020. "Female Crime and Female Confinement in Late Antiquity." In The Violence of Small Worlds: Conflict and Social Control in Late Antiquity, hrsg. von K. Cooper, J. Wood, 15–38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2019. "Preserving Female Voices: Female Letters in Late Antique Letter Collections." In A Late Antique Experiment in Roman Canon Law. The Collectio Avellana and its Revivals, hrsg. von R. Lizzi, G. Marconi,  210–244. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • 2019: "Exclusion, intégration ou exclusion par l’intégration? Géographies du banissement et asile à la fin de l’empire romain (ve-vie siècle)." In La construction du sujet exclu (IVe–XIe siècle): droit, lieux et discours, hrsg. von S. Gioanni, S. Joye, 45–68. Turnhout: Brepols.
  • 2016. "Approaches to Clerical Exile: Strategies, Experiences, Memories and Social Networks." In Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity, hrsg. von J. Hillner, J. Ulrich, J. Engberg, 11–43. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • 2013. "Family Violence: Punishment and Abuse in the Late Roman Household." In Approaches to the Byzantine Family, hrsg. von S. Tougher and L. Brubaker, 21–45.  Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • 2011. "Enfermement monastique au VIe siècle." In Enfermements: Le cloître et la prison du Ve au XVIIIe siècle, hrsg. von J. Claustre, I. Heullant-Donant, 39–56. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.
  • 2007. "Families, Patronage, and the Titular Churches of Rome." In Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900, hrsg. von K. Cooper, J. Hillner, 225–261. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2007. Mit K. Cooper. "Introduction." In Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900, hrsg. von K. Cooper, J. Hillner, 1–18. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2006. Mit K. Cooper, C. Leyser. "Dark Age Rome: An Interactive Topography. A GIS Project of the Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester." In The Social and Political Archaeology of Late Antiquity, hrsg. von L. Lavan, W. Bowden, 311–337. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2004. Mit C. Leyser. "Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Medieval Rome, 440–840: An Electronic Approach." In La scrittura dai monasteri. Atti del II seminario internazionale di studio "I Monasteri nell'alto Medioevo," hrsg. von F. De Rubeis, W. Pohl, 227–247. Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae. 
  • 2002. "Le chiese paleocristiane di Roma e l'occupazione degli spazi pubblici." In "Ecclesiae urbis". Atti del congresso internazionale di studi sulle chiese di Roma (IV–X sec.), hrsg. von F. Guidobaldi, A. Guiglia Guidobaldi, 242–249. Vatican City: PIAC.
  • "Titulus." Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online. Open Access
  • "Execution," "Punishment," "Prisons," "Homicide," "Violence, crimes of," "Torture." In Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, hrsg. von O. Nicholson, M. Humphries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • "Constantina, daughter of Constantine, wife of Gallus Caesar and patron of St Agnes." Oxford Classical Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Open Access
  • "Constantia, half-sister of Constantine and wife of Licinius." Oxford Classical Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Open Access
  • 2025. "Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind. A Life in History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023." In Historische Zeitschrift 320: 451–453. Open access
  • 2024. "Elizabeth D. Carney, Sabine Müller (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World. London; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021." In Journal of Roman Studies 114 (veröffentlicht auf First View am 4. Dezember 2023).
  • 2023. "Sible de Blaauw, E. M. Moormann, D. Slootjes (eds.), The Recruiting Power of Christianity. The Rise of Religion in the Material Culture of Fourth-Century Rome and its Echo in History. Rome: Quasar, 2021." In Historische Zeitschrift 317: 450–451.
  • 2021. "Jennifer Barry, Bishops in Flight. Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity, Oakland: University of California Press, 2019." Early Medieval Europe 29.4, 614–617.
  • 2020. "Emma Southon, Marriage, Sex and Death. The Family and the Fall of the Roman West. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2017." Plekos 22, 55–57. Open Access
  • 2019. "Valerio Neri/Beatrice Girotti (eds.). La famiglia tardoantica. Società, diritto, religione. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2016." Plekos 21, 313–316. Open Access
  • 2016. "Joyce E. Salisbury, Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015." Ancient History Bulletin Online Review 6, 121–124. Open Access
  • 2016 G. Demacopoulos, The Invention of Peter. Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity, Philadelphia, 2013 (Divinations: rereading late ancient religion), in: Journal of Roman Studies 106, 373–374.
  • 2015. "M. Mulryan, Spatial Christianisation in Context: Strategic Intramural Building in Rome from the 4th-7th c., Oxford: Archeopress, 2014." Bonner Jahrbücher 215, 580–581.
  • 2014. "P. Blaudeau, Le siège de Rome et l’Orient (448-536), Rome, 2012 (Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 460)." Journal of Roman Studies 104, 354–355.
  • 2012. "F. Stini, Plenum exiliis mare. Untersuchungen zum Exil in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2011 (Geographica Historica, 27)." Historische Zeitschrift 295, 755–756.
  • 2012. "G. Ausenda (ed.), The Langobards before the Frankish Conquest: An Ethnographic Perspective, New York 2009." Early Medieval Europe 20, 90–92.
  • 2010. "S. Barnish et al. (ed.), Vivarium in Context, Vicenza 2008." Early Medieval Europe 18, 223–224.
  • 2009. "P. Hatlie, The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople ca. 350-850, Cambridge 2007." Journal of Hellenic Studies 129, 252–253.
  • 2008. "O. F. Robinson, Penal Practice and Penal Policy in Ancient Rome, London, New York 2007." Classical Review 58, 542–544.
  • 2007. "D. Slootjes, The Governor and his Subjects in the Later Roman Empire. Leiden, Boston 2006." Journal of Roman Studies 97, 379–380.
  • 2005. "E. Magnou-Nortier, Le Code Théodosien, livre XVI, et sa réception au moyen âge, Paris 2002." Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 80, 271–273.
  • 2005. "A. Haug, Die Stadt als Lebensraum. Eine kulturhistorische Analyse zum spätantiken Stadtleben in Norditalien, Rahden/Westfalen 2003." Journal of Roman Studies 95, 323–324.
  • 2008. From German: G. M. Berndt, R. Steinacher, "Minting in Vandal-Alanic North Africa: Coins of the Vandal Period in the Numismatic Collection of Vienna's Kunsthistorische Museum." Early Medieval Europe 16.
  • 2007. From Italian: A. Cantini, "Siena in the Early Middle Ages. New Data from the Excavation at the Hospital of S. Maria della Scala." Early Medieval Europe 15.
  • 2024. With K. Großmann, M. Gymnich, J.M. Harland, C. Jarzebowski, C. Laske, E. Lehner, R. Mahawatte, D. Márquez, L. Phongsavath, and L. Venters, "Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Intersectional Approaches, Evidences, and Perspectives." Discussion Paper 3 (for Research Area E: Gender and Intersectionality), Bonn Excellence Cluster Beyond Slavery and Freedom.
  • 2024. With K. Großmann, M. Gymnich, J.M. Harland, C. Laske, E. Lehner, R. Mahawatte, D. Márquez, L. Phongsavath, and L. Venters. "Asymmetrical Dependencies and Intersectionality." In Dependent 24(1): 4–7.
  • 2024. With L. Hellman. "Segregation and Asymmetrical Dependency." In Dependent 24(1): 8–10.
  • 2023. With C. Antweiler, S. Conermann, C. Jarzebowski, E. Lehner, R. Stichweh, C. De Vito, P. Wiegmink, J. Wimmler, and C. Witzenrath. "BCDSS Conversation 1: On Comparison and the Use of Theory." Discussion Paper 2, Bonn Excellence Cluster Beyond Slavery and Freedom.
  • 2023. With J. Winnebeck. "Norms, Institutions and Practices of Dependency." In Dependent 23(1): 80–82.
  • 2022. With C. Jarzebowski, P. Wiegmink, C. Witzenrath. "Get to Know Our Cluster Professors Through Their Objects: A Conversation." In Dependent 22(1): 9–17.
  • 2017–2022. Writing Helena.

Sammelbände 

  • Mit Muriel Moser-Gerber. Women and Justice: Female Legal Agency in Late Antiquity and Beyond. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Buchkapitel und Zeitschriftenaufsätze

  • "An Urban History of Early Imperial Rome in Five Christian Dates." In Early Christian Rome, hrsg. von S. Feist, J. Rüggemeier, and P. Lampe. Early Christian Centres 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
  • "Empresses and Imperial Women." In A Companion to the Later Roman Emperor, hrsg. von H. Börm, C. Rollinger, and F. Carlá-Uhink. Leiden: Brill.
  • "The Legal Business of the Late Roman Empress." In Women and Justice: Female Legal Agency in Late Antiquity and Beyond, hrsg. von J. Hillner and M. Moser-Gerber. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • "Approaches to Justice, Agency and Women in Late Antiquity and Beyond." In Women and Justice: Female Legal Agency in Late Antiquity and Beyond, hrsg. von J. Hillner and M. Moser-Gerber. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • "Anicia Iuliana and the Collectio Avellana: What Difference Did Her Letters Make?" In Emperors, Bishops, Senators: The Evidence of the Collectio Avellana, hrsg. von A. Evers. Leuven: Peeters.