Joseph L. Rife, JMA-Chairholder (August-December 2023)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee USA
External impetus, additional expertise and international exchange is provided by a dense network of international partners and, in particular, is enhanced through the so-called JMA chairs: i.e. professorships that are temporarily occupied by international experts and are hosted at the Johanna Mestorf Academy.
The JMA Chairs are crucial in consolidating the role of ROOTS for scientific discourse, exchange, and advancement. Together with additional DFG Mercator Fellows, Humboldt Fellows, and Humboldt Professorships, the JMA chairs both benefit from and contribute to the ROOTS research environment by conducting their own research as well as by supporting ROOTS researchers, thus inspiring new interdisciplinary research strands. This guarantees the transfer of expertise as topically bundled by the six ROOTS subclusters, as well as that of cross-sectional workgroups, advanced training, and in ROOTS field laboratories.
It is expected that young researchers, in particular, greatly profit from the exposure to such a collaborative environment, which also offers them the opportunity to be integrated into the international scientific community discourse already in an early stage of their careers.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee USA
Sapienza, Universita di Roma, Italy
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU, Norway
University of Seville, Spain
Sealand Archaeology, Kalundborg, Denmark
Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, USA
University of Patras, Rio, Greece
University of Lincoln, UK
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Washington State University in Pullman, USA
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo at Mendoza, Argentina
Welcome to Joseph L. Rife as new JMA Chair
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IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology | German Archaeological Institute |
Institutes
Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University | Institute of Geosciences, Kiel University | Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University | Institute of Geography, Kiel University | Institute of Classical Studies, Ancient History, Kiel University | Institute of Classical Studies, Classical Philology, Kiel University | Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, aDNA, Kiel University | Institute of History, Kiel University | Department of Computer Science, Kiel University | Institute for Material Science, Kiel University | Institute of Philosophy, Kiel University | Institute of Scandinavian, Frisian and General Linguistics, Kiel University | Institute of Economics, Kiel University | Institute of German Studies, Kiel University | Institute of Romance Studies, Kiel University | Institute of New Testament Studies and Judaism, Kiel University | Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research