We welcome Miko Flohr as new JMA-Chair
Expert for urban, social and economic history of the Greco-Roman world collaborates with colleagues in the Cluster ROOTS
This month, we welcome Miko Flohr. lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) as a holder of the Johanna Mestorf Academy Chair for the coming months until 31 July.
Miko Flohr is a renowned expert on the urban, social and economic history of the Greco-Roman world. He started his career with studying Classics in Nijmegen. After finishing his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in 2010, he was assistant director of the Oxford Roman Economy Project at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford, and Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He has been researching and teaching at Leiden University since 2013.
In his research, Miko Flohr focuses on the impact of Roman imperial hegemony on urban communities and everyday life, and the extent to which this shapes the archaeological and epigraphic record.
While in Kiel, Miko Flohr will collaborate with colleagues in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, particularly within the Subcluster Urban ROOTS. On Monday, 8 May, he has been giving a lecture as part of the Urban ROOTS lecture series “Stadt und Wasser. A public JMA Chair lecture with Miko Flohr will be announced separately.
