Faculty
Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Religious Studies
- Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg
- Research Focus: Ancient History of Religion and Theory of Religion
Hartmut Rosa (Vice director, Erfurt)
- Vice spokesperson, Erfurt
- Sociology
- Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg
- Research Interests: Theory of Time and Acceleration, Theory of Self and World Relations, Resonance
- Professor of North American History
- Erfurt University
- Research Interests: History of the Body, History and Theory of Discourses and Practices
- Comparative Sociology
- Erfurt University
- Research Interests: Social Theory, Social Movement Studies, Sociology of Critique
- History of Theology, Patristics
- Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg
- Research Interests: Early Christian and Patristic Studies, Neo-Platonism and its Reception through History (Medieval period, Enlightenment), Narratives, Second Modernity
- Associate Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg
- Seminar speaker (Seminar for Religious Studies)
- Holder of the Professorship for General Religious Studies
- Research Interests: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean; Early Christianity in the Context of Imperial Culture; Martyrdom, Trauma and Violence in Early Christianity; Rituals and Ritual Theories; Religion and Gender; Religion and Space
- Professor of Music and its Didactics
- Erfurt University
- Research Interests: Digitization and digital culture in Music and Music Education, Social Systems Theory, Classroom Discourse, Composing and Improvisation in Music Education, Disciplinary Development
University of Graz
Wolfgang Spickermann (Director, Graz)
- Ancient History and Epigraphy
- University of Graz
- Research Focus: Germanic provinces, Late Antiquity and Early Christianity
Ursula Gärtner (Vice director, Graz)
- Classical Philology
- University of Graz
- Research focus: Imperial literature, fables, iconography
Irmtraud Fischer
- Old Testament Studies
- University of Graz
- Research Focus: Gender and Feminism studies, biblical theology
Christoph Heil
- New Testament Studies
- University of Graz
- Research focus: Early Christianity, social history
Stephan Moebius
- Sociology
- University of Graz
- Research Focus: Cultural Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Religion
Laerke Recht
- Early Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
- University of Graz
- Research Focus: Ritual and sacrifice in the Ancient Near East, Human-Animal Relations, Material Culture Studies, Archaeogical Theory
Peter Scherrer
- Classical Archaeology
- University of Graz
- Research focus: Archaeology, epigraphy, ancient religion and ideology
Franz Winter
- Religious Studies
- University of Graz
- Research Focus: Religious Studies, religious and cultural contacts between Europe and Asia
Coordinators
Further members
Doctoral Fellows
Nancy Alhachem
Resonance instead of Alienation: The Practices of Memory among Migrants and Refugees in the German Culture of Remembrance
Personal Website
Lukas Bartl
Naturally beautiful. Naturally fit. Naturally healthy – the topos of „Natürlichkeit“ in GDR health publications and its political and social dimensions
Personal Website
Christopher Bégin
Religiosity and rituals in clubbing: resonance in unity, consumption and timelessness
Personal Website
Dina Bijelic
Modeling Christian rulership in the medieval Grail romance
Personal Website
Elizaveta Boyko
Development of cult urban places in Sicily in the end of 6th - the beginning of 5th century BC
Personal Website
Vincenzo Cerulli
Resonance praxis in filmmaking and film editing
Personal Website
Emma de Koning
A ‘Pregnant’ Image: The Resonance of Childbirth Iconography and Ritual in the Societies of the Ancient Mediterranean
Personal Website
Marcus Döller
Autonomy as Social Practice
Personal Website
Behnaz Ghazi Moradi
Spatiality, religion, and body: Relocating female experiences in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Personal Website
Heinrich Hofer
Untersuchung an den Fundamenten der „Gesellschaftsspaltung"
Personal Website
Lukas Jung
Die agonistische »Eventkultur« in Side und den pamphylischen Städten
Personal Website
Marios Kamenou
Resonant relationships and religious innovations: Interpreting ritual practices in the Hellenistic cult of the Mother of the Gods
Personal Website
Veronika Kolomaznik
Transformation und resonance of the enlivened Phallos. Metamorphosis and significance of a powerful ancient motif (working title)
Personal Website
Elena Malagoli
GODS AND OATHS IN THE MITTANI TREATY: RESONANT SELF-WORLD RELATIONS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR-EAST
Personal Website
Manuel Moser
Mein Schönes Auto als entdinglichtes Ding? Eine vergleichende empirische Studie zu Auto- und Motoradpilgerfahrten und -segnungen in Mitteleuropa und Bolivien bezogen auf das Verhältnis der drei Resonanzachsen zueinander
Personal Website
Zahra Naghshband
Experiencing Resonance Amidst Uncertainty of Time: Performing Rituals and the Problem of Sacred Time among Shiites during Ramadan
Personal Website
Nicole Navratil
Performing the Nation – and Womanhood? The self-staging of female leaders of today’s nationalist parties in Europe
Personal Website
Florian Oppitz
Orte christlich motivierter Wohltätigkeit im spätantiken östlichen Mittelmeerraum. Eine interdisziplinäre Studie anhand archäologischer und anderer antiker Quellen
Personal Website
Rupert Rainer
The Ekphrasis of the Hagia Sophia in the context of self-world relation
Personal Website
Stella Rehbein
Romantik in Zeiten abnehmender Resonanz. Eine ungleichheits- und geschlechtersoziologische Untersuchung von Liebe zwischen Ritual und Routine
Personal Website
Matthias Scholler
Ruler-cult and crisis. The imperial cult and the third century crisis
Personal Website
Marina Schutti
A Cypriot Pig Story - Human-suid Relations from the Neoltihic to the Classical period
Personal Website
Lena Spickermann
Resonanz(-blockaden) in der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgenese um die moderne Frau – Viola Klein: Pionierin einer resonanzfördernden Geschlechterforschung
Personal Website
João Tziminadis
Unleashing Life from its Boundaries: The Bioscientific-Cultural Pursuit of Vitality and the Finiteness of the Human
Personal Website
Armin Unfricht
Identität, Integration, Politik: Zur gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung von Heroisierung und kultischer Verehrung historischer Persönlichkeiten bei den Griechen
Personal Website
Emma Charlotte Weiher
You must be all things - Resonant Prayer Poems in the North American Literary Tradition
Personal Website
Charles White
Resonance through YELLO: Exploring the Theory of Resonance in Young Ensemble Learning through Laptop Orchestra
Personal Website
Malka Wijeratne
Mos Maiorum, Resonance and Emotion
Personal Website
Clemens Wurzinger
How Literature Touches Us. Of immersion and transformation in Tibullus
Personal Website
Alina Zeller
Trachtenvereine in the USA: practices of Bavarian customs associations in the negotiation of German-American ethnicity, culture and tradition
Personal Website
Mercator Fellows
Fouad Gehad Marei
Research Project: "Feeling Sectarian? Shi‘i Ritual Practice, Affective Relations, and Holy War in the Middle East"
Personal Website
Georgia Petridou
Research Interests: Greek Literature, Greek and Roman Religion, Greek and Roman Medicine, Greek Epigraphy
Personal Website
University of Liverpool
Rubina Raja
Reseach Project: "Cults and Sanctuaries of the Tetrapolis Region"
Personal Website
University of Aarhus
Ada Taggar-Cohen
Research Project: "The Concept of Gender Appearance – Divine and Mundane – in Hittite and Biblical texts"
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Personal Website (external)
Collaborating Researchers
Max-Weber-Kolleg
Martin Fuchs
Religious History of India
Richard Gordon
Ancient History of Magic
Christoph Henning
Philosophy
Benedikt Kranemann
Liturgical Studies
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Antje Linkenbach-Fuchs
Comparative Ethnology
Beatrice Renzi
Anthropology and Religion of South Asia
Emiliano Urciuoli
Early Christianity
Jutta Vinzent †
History of Classical, Modern and Contemporary Art
University of Graz
Anneliese Felber
Byzantine Orthodoxy and Patrology
Manfred Lehner
Classical Archaeology, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology
Katharina Scherke
Sociology of Culture, Art and Science, History of Sociology, Theory of Sociology
Leif Scheuermann
Ancient History, Digital Humanities, Historical Geography
Klaus Tausend
Ancient History, Mycenology, Military History, History of Germanic Tribes
Sabine Tausend
Ancient History, Gender Studies, Reception of Antiquity
Elisabeth Trinkl
Archaeology, Digital Archaeology
Associated doctoral fellows of the Max-Weber-Kolleg
Rafael Barroso Romero
Religious Studies
Sofia Bianchi Mancini
Classics
Felipe Perissato
Religious Studies
Konrad Pfeffel
Religious Studies
Martin Repohl
Sociology
Anton Röhr
Philosophy
Seraphim Schirrmacher
Music Education
Alumni
since 2021
Bennet Bergmann
Im Einklang mit Gott und der Welt: Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von Meditationsritualen und phänomenologischen Resonanzbeziehungen zur Welt
Kai Brodersen
Classics, Ancient Culture, Historiography
Sára Eszter Heidl
Event Religion as an alternative to modern religious phenomena
Gabriel Malli
Heilige Körper. Eine resonanz- und religionssoziologische Untersuchung der religiösen Verschleierung
David Palme
Widerspruch als Lebensform / Contradiction as a Form of Life
Luca Pellarin
Time (Dis)Closure. Learning From Christian Eschatology
Aaron Plattner
Resonanz und Ekphrasis. Die Stimmen heiliger Räume, Rituale und Gegenstände bei Pausanias
Blaž Ploj
Religiöse Rituale in den Komödien von Titus Maccius Plautus
Olivera Koprivica
Female Bodies and Angelic Likeness: The Place and Role of the Body in Everyday Life of Orthodox Women Monastics – A Qualitative Study
Eveline Krummen
Antike
Winfried Kumpitsch
Der Einfluss christlicher Soldaten auf die Entstehung eines christlichen Soldatenideals
Anita Neudorfer
Zur Heilkraft von Gesang. Rezente Gesangsbewegungen aus resonanztheoretischer Perspektive
Diana Pavel
Platforms of Enounters or A Table for Offerings? The Aspects of the Etruscan Altar in the Public and the Private Sphere in the 7th to 2nd Century BC
Georgia Petridou
Greek Literature, Greek and Roman Religion, Greek and Roman Medicine, Greek Epigraphy
Thomas Sojer
Simone Weil's 'resonant reception' of Early Christianity
Ramón Soneira Martínez
Atheism and Unbelief in Ancient Greece
Raphaela Swadosch
Das Hohelied als Beitrag zur Radikalisierung der Beziehungsidee - eine Untersuchung der Resonanzverhältnisse des Hohelieds
Isabell Wagener
Wer bin ich? Personifikations- und Kultdarstellungen als Ausdruck resonanter Weltbeziehungen im Spiegel der aristophanischen Komödie
Katharina Waldner
Religious Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, Early Christianity