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CURRICULUM VITAE

Susanna Elm

Department of History, Dwinelle Hall,

U.C. Berkeley C.A. 94720,

Tel.: 510 - 642 2238, fax: 510-***-****

E-mail: ***@********.***

Married to Martin Nettesheim, Professor of Public International Law, Eberhard-Karls

Universitat, Tubingen, Germany

One Daughter: Clara Cecilia Elm Nettesheim, DOB 11/17/2005CURRENT

EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS

2002 - Professor of

History and Classics

19992004Director, Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies

1997/2004 Chair, Graduate Program in Ancient Mediterranean History and

Archaeology

1994/2002Associate Professor

1994/5 Acting Director, Graduate Program in Ancient Mediterranean History and

Archaeology

Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Program for Religious Studies

19881994Assistant Professor,

U.C. Berkeley

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES

1986 D.Phil. Oxon., Literae Humaniores (Ancient History) St. Hilda's College.

The Organization and Institutions of Female Asceticism in Fourth Century

Cappadocia and Egypt.

Supervisor: Dr. J.F. Matthews, The Queen's College

1982 Philosophicum, summa cum laude, Free University Berlin (BA-equivalent

in Philosophy and education).

1980 Interim examination, summa cum laude, University Berlin, Sept. 1980.

1978 Valedictorian, Gymnasium Leopoldinum I, Detmold.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2009 Fall, Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, and

Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS).

2008 2007 American Philological Association Prize for Scholarly Outreach for

the Multi-Campus Research Group Late Antiquity Steering Committee.

2007 Spring Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy

Berlin.

2003 U.C. Berkeley Regents' Faculty Research Fellowship, Seminar fur Alte

Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls Universitat, Tubingen, Fall.

2000/1 Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton.

Invitation to the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, declined.

1999/0 Senior Faculty Fellow, Townsend Center of the Humanities.

1998/9 National Humanities Center Lecturer.

1996/7 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

1995/6 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

Berkeley Humanities Research Fellowship.

1992 U.C. Regent's Grant for Research Assistance.

1991/2 National Humanities Center/ National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowship

Regents' Faculty Research Fellowship.

1990Summer Fellow, Harvard Center for Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks,

Washington D.C.

1989 Regents' Junior Faculty Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley.

1985/6 Research Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

1982/5 Rhodes Scholarship.

1979/5 Foundation of the German People for Highly Talented Scholarship

(Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).

EXPERIENCE

1987Analyst, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Frankfurt and

NewYork.

Paid Internship, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Features Section

1981/2 Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. F. Munari, Institute for Classical Studies,

Free University, Berlin.

OTHER

2011- Executive Committee, California Consortium on Late Antiquity

2011- Editorial Committee, Adnotationes, with J. Leemans, Katholic University,

Leuven.

2011 May 11-13, Rome Pontifical Institute of Oriental Studies and La

Sapienzia: Conference Vie del Sapere tra Roma ed l Oriente, 3 -10 c., co-

organized with M. Pampaloni and C. Tavolieri.

2011 February 25, Workshop Beautiful Martyrs: the Aesthetics of Violence, Co-

organized with C. Ocker, GTU

2010 October 23-25, Organizer, International colloquium City-Empire-

Christendom, Berkeley

2009- Faculty Advisory Committee, Department of History, Princeton

2009- External reviewer, Guggenheim Foundation, MacArthur Foundation

2009 October 12-16, Workshop Munchen, Center for Advanced Studies, Antike

Legenden und das 19. Jahrhundert/ Flaubert und die Epistemologien des

Wissens (with H.U. Gumbrecht, Stanford, and B. Vinken, Munich).

2008 January 3-6: Session Managing the Late Antique City, AHA,

Washington DC.

2008- Late Antiquity Network with the Universitat Heidelberg,

Altertumswissenschaften.

2008- Reviewer DAAD.

2007 June 17-20: Workshop Polis to Oikoumene: City- Empire-Christianity,

Chateau de la Bretesche, Nantes, the Borchard Foundation (co-organized

with Claudia Rapp).

2007- Collaborator with Edgar Pankow, Frankfurt/Main and Barbara Naumann,

Zurich: Sonderforschungsbereich Transformation/Transformance: the

Dynamics of Cultural Exchange.

co-operation with Prof. Martin Zimmermann, Alte Geschichte, Ludwigs-

Maximilian Universitat, Munchen, Cities in Antiquity.

2005 February 20-21: Interdisciplinary Conference co-organizer with

Christopher Ocker, Center for Religion and Culture (formerly for

Hermeneutical Studies): The Rhetorics of Holy War, Berkeley, GTU

Dinner Board Room.

2004 March 23-24: Interdisciplinary Conference co-organizer with Christopher

Ocker,Center for Religion and Culture (formerly for Hermeneutical

Studies): The Imagined Worlds of Martyrdom, Berkeley, GTU Dinner

Board Room

2003 May 4-6: Conference co-organizer with Stefan Willich, Director, Institut

fur Epidemiologie, Charite, Humboldt Universitat Berlin, Healing in

Medicine: QuoVadis? Schloss Elmau, Bavaria.

2003/6 Nominating Committee, Chair, North American Patristics Association.

2003 April 25: Conference co-organizer with Christopher Ocker, Center for

Religion and Culture (formerly for Hermeneutical Studies): Militancy and

Religion: Religious Challenges to Secular Law, Berkeley, Bade Museum.

March 20-23: Conference co-organizer, Society for Late Antiquity and UC

Multicampus Research Group Late Antiquity: Shifting Frontiers V:

Violence, Victims, and Vindication in Late Antiquity, U.C. Santa Barbara.

2003- Editorial Board, Patristics Monograph Series.

2000- External Reviewer, National Humanities Center.

2001 May 18: Women and Conversion, workshop, co-organized with Julia

Smith.

2000 October 19-20, Princeton: Davis Center: Conversion in Late Antiquity.

New Perspectives. Conference co-organized with Anthony Grafton and

Peter Brown.

1999 September 25: Co-organizer with Prof. Stefan Willich, Director, Institut

fur Epidemiologie, Charite: Conference on Medicine in 2000:

Challenges, Methods, Alternatives, Humboldt Universitat Berlin.

1999 May July: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Classics, Universitat Konstanz,

Sonderforschungsbereich Norm und Symbol.

1998 June 5-8: Conference co-organizer with Eric Rebillard and Antonella

Romano: Definir et mantenir l Orthodoxie, Ecole Francaise de Rome.

1998 Special Graduate Summer Seminar, Studienstiftung des Deutschen

Volkes, Sommerakademie IV, Neubeuren (Bavaria): The Power of

Knowledge. Images of the Physician in Antiquity and Contemporary

Echoes. With S. Willich, Director, Institute fur Epidemiologie, Charite,

Humboldt Universitat Berlin.

1997- Editorial Board, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum

(Tubingen: Mohr- Siebeck).

1997 March 13-17: Conference co-organizer with N. Janowitz: Charisma and

Society: A Reappraisal of P.R.L.Brown s article The Rise and Function of

the Holy Man in Late Antiquity. U.C. Berkeley.

1996- Editorial Board, Zeitschrift fur Antike und Christentum/Journal of Ancient

Christianity (Berlin: De Gruyter).

1995/8 Co-ordinator with E. Rebillard: Definir et mantenir l Orthodoxie:

Workshop in collaboration with the Ecole Francaise de Rome and the

France-Berkeley Fund.

1995/9 Executive Committee, Center for Hermeneutical Studies, GTU.

1990- Doreen Townsend Seminar LARES ( Late Antique Religions et Society;

ongoing bi-annual meeting for Northern California, out of which the

Multi-Campus Research Group Late Antiquity emerged).

Peer Reviewer for:

Classical Antiquity, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Journal of Roman Studies,

Harvard

Theological Journal, Church History, Representations, Speculum, Historia, ZAC/JAC;

Oxford University Press; University of California Press; Princeton University Press;

Stanford

University Press; Blackwells; Harvard University Press; Columbia University Press; Johns

Hopkins Press; Cambridge University Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; Cornell

University Press.

External Reviewer for Sonderforschungsbereiche and excellence initiatives at a number

of universities in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, France, and Belgium.

Membership in professional associations

American Historical Association

American Philological Association

American Association of Religion

Society of Biblical Literature

Deutscher Historikerverband

American Society for Byzantine Studies

North American Patristic Society

American Society for Church History

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2007-11 Department of History, Colloquia Chair

2005/9 Personnel Committee, Department of History (2005-2009)

2005/9 Sather Lecture Selection Committee (Classics, 2005-2009)

1988- Graduate Admissions Committee, Graduate Program in Ancient History

and Mediterranean Archaeology.

Graduate Admissions, Dept. of History (1999, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008,

2010).

Graduate Advising Committee, Dept. of History (1999, 2002-04, 2008)

Undergraduate Advisor, Dept. of History, (1997-1999, 2002-04)

Undergraduate Honors Committee, Religious Studies (1988-); History

(1990, 1991, 2005).

Colloquia Chair, History (1990, 1997).

Committee for the Future Development of the Dept. of History (1992,

2002, 2007).

Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of History (1992, 1993, 2004,

2005, 2007-2010).

History Fundraising Committee (1994, 1999, 2001).

Undergraduate Advisor, History (1992).

Campus, - and system-wide

2011 University Committee on Committees.

2009/11 Committee on Committees.

2009- Editorial Board University of California Press.

2006/10 Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Faculty Advisory

Committee.

2004-10 Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program,

Religious Studies.

2004- Executive Committee, Organized Research Unit Tebtunis Papyri (1999 -

2007).

2002- Forester Lectures Selection Committee.

1999-2010 Executive Committee, Multicampus Research Group: Late Antiquity .

1988- Faculty Advisory Board, Program in Religious Studies.

1999/03 Committee for Admission and Enrollments.

1997/04 Executive Committee, Aleshire Center for Epigraphy.

1991, 95,02 Regents and Chancellor s Fellowship Committee.

1994, 2004 Review Committee, Western Civilization Lecture Series Canon (1994,

2004).

1994-95 Hellman Family Faculty Fund Selection Committee.

1999 and 02 University Committee for Undergraduate Admissions.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

by E. Schussler-Fiorenza, ed., Philadelphia: Crossroad/Continuum, 1994.

Celibacy, Montanists, Novatians in: A Guide to the Late Antique World. Ed. by G.

Bowersock, P. Brown, and O. Grabar. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Apotaktiken, Arsenius, Akoimeten, Anachoret, Jovinian, Lerins, Syneisakten,

in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart4, Tubingen, J.C.B. Mohr, 1999, 2000, 2001

(with English translations).

Virginity, Virgin Birth, in: Oxford Companion to the Body. Ed. Colin Blakemore and

Sheila Jennett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Self-formation, Perpetua, in Dictionary of Childhood, Ed. Paula Fass and Mary Ann

Mason. New York: Macmillan, 2004.

Melania, Gregory of Nazianzus, Firmilian, Pachomius, Synesius, Syneisaktoi,

Westminster Dictionary of the Early Church, 2008.

Other writings:

Book Reviews for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt include:

P. R.L. Brown, The Body and Society. Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early

Christianity, F.A.Z. 7/31/1989.

M. Walsh, Christen und Caesaren, F.A.Z. 4/7/1989.

K. Christ, Geschichte der romischen Kaiserzeit von Augustus bis Konstantin, F.A.Z.

3/15/1989.

K. D. Bracher, Die Diadochen, F.A.Z. 9/10/1988.

Palladius, Die Geschichte des Lausias, F.A.Z. 7/15/1988.

A. Kalkhoff, Karl der Grosse; G. Herm, Karl der Grosse, F.A.Z. 2/4/1988.

Eusebius und seine Kirchengeschichte. Die Welt, 8/20/1999.

Der Star und die Dame. Michael T. Clanchey, Abaelard. Ein mittelalterliches Leben.

Ubersetzung aus dem Englischen von Raul Niemann und Ralf M.W. Stammberger.

Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2000. Die Welt, 12/12/ 2000.