Dr. Anna Marie Sitz

Assistant professor, non-tenure track

Contact

Wilhelmstr. 36, Room 503, 72074 Tübingen
07071 / 29 76077

anna-marie.sitzspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hour

by appointment

since August 2026

Assistant professor, non-tenure track

Seminar für Alte Geschichte

April 2024

First Book Award der Classical Association of the Middle West and South (USA)

for the book "Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean" (Oxford University Press, 2023)

June 2023 – Juli 2026

Postdoc

Leibniz-Project "(Post-)Roman Transitions"

since September 2022

Subproject Leader for the Survey

Phoenix Archeological Project (Turkey)

July 2019 – May 2023

Postdoc and Subproject Leader

Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 933 ‚Materiale Textkulturen‘, in connection with the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Universität Heidelberg. Project: ‚Die Präsenz von Inschriften in griechischen Heiligtümern: Die Evozierung der polis in epigraphischen Inszenierungen’

September 2018 – June 2019

Postdoc

Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 933 ‚Materiale Textkulturen‘, Universität Heidelberg

September 2017 – May 2018

Postdoctoral Fellow

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlin) and Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC)

September 2016 – December 2017

Visiting Scholar

Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

since July 2017

Subproject Leader for the Excavation in Labraunda (Turkey)

Project: Postclassical Labraunda

September 2014 – May 2016

Scholarships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

December 2012 – December 2017

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dissertation: „The Writing on the Wall: Inscriptions and Memory in the Temples of Late Antique Greece and Asia Minor.”

August 2010 – December 2012

M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Philadelphia, USA

Master’s paper: „ΜΕΓΑΣ ΦΟΒΟΣ: The Role of Reverential Fear in the Pancarlık Kilise in Cappadocia.”

August 2006 – May 2010

B.A., Baylor University, University Scholars, Waco, Texas, USA

Research

Research interests and projects

Archaeology of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean
Greek Epigraphy
Asia Minor
The Reception of the Past in Late Antiquity

Archaeological Fieldwork

Active projects at the excavation in Labraunda (Turkey) and at the Phoenix Survey (Turkey)
Further archaeological fieldwork in Corinth (Greece), Alabanda (Turkey) und Philosophiana (Sicily)

External Funding

2023: Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant with Dr. Asil Yaman, for the Phoenix Survey
2022: Mary Jaharis Project Grant with Dr. Asil Yaman, for the Phoenix Survey
2020/21: American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant for the excavation at Labraunda
2019: Excavation at Labraunda, carried out with funding from the Akmed Project Grant. Additional funding provided by SFB 933 at Heidelberg University.
2018: Excavation at Labraunda, carried out with funding from a Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) Project Grant
2017: Excavation at Labraunda, carried out with funding from the Kolb Society of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Awards and grants

2024: First Book Award of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (USA) for the book Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Publications

Monographs

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Reviews (as far as I know):
- Arkadiy Avdokhin (2026), Journal of Roman Archaeology 39
- Mark Humphries (2025), Plekos 27
- Irene Selsvold (2025), Journal of Roman Studies (2025)
- Jitse H.F. Dijkstra (2025), Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades 23
- Paweł Nowakowski (2025), Gnomon 97.4
- Benjamin Anderson (2025), Byzantinische Zeitschrift 118.1
- Ondrej Homolka (2025), Religio 33.2
- Georgia Frank (2025), Journal of Late Antiquity 18.1
- Krzysztof Nawotka (2024), The Classical Review (2024)
- Felipe Rojas (2024), American Journal of Archaeology 128.3
- David Ungvary (2023), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2024.03.19
- Gabriel Gabbardo (2023), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024.03.18
- Kristofer Stinson (2023), Reading Religion, 2023.10.26
- Shelley Hales (2023), Greece & Rome 70.2
- Jonah Bissell (2023), Religious Studies Review 49.4

Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes

2025: “The Grammar of Erasure: Some Reflections on Rasurae in Late Roman Asia Minor.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 236: 131–143.
2025: „The Practicalities of Spoliation: Tool Marks, Craftspeople, and Building Logic.” In Ergasteria: Premises and Processes of Creation in Antiquity. Constanze Graml und Elena Partida (eds.). Archaeopress (308–325).
2024: „From Texts on Walls to Walls of Text: Layout of Inscribed Greek Documents in Late Antiquity.” In Layout and Materiality of Writing in Ancient Documents from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity: A Comparative Approach. D. Amendola, C. Carusi, F. Maltomini, and E. Rosamilia (eds.). Firenze University Press (305–315).
2024: „Epigraphic Erasures beyond Damnatio Memoriae: Iconoclasm and ‘Grammatoclasm’ in Late Antiquity.” In Erasures in Late Antiquity. Kay Boers, Rebecca Grose, und Rebecca Usherwood (eds.). Trivent (137–169).
2023: mit Stefan Ardeleanu, Nikolaus Dietrich, et al. „Sakralisierung.” In Theorie und Systematik materialer Textkultur. N. Dietrich, L. Lieb, and N. Schneidereit (eds.) De Gruyter (207-256).
2023: mit Andrea Bernini, Susanne Boerner, et al. „Layout, Gestaltung, Text-Bild.” In Theorie und Systematik materialer Textkultur. N. Dietrich, L. Lieb, and N. Schneidereit (eds.) De Gruyter (67-114).
2022: „An Epigram for the Everyman? Strategies of Commemoration at a Cappadocian Tomb.” In Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy 1. Andreas Rhoby and Ida Toth (eds.). Brepols (213–249).
2022: with Asil Yaman et al. „Preliminary Report on the 2021 Fieldwork at Phoenix.” Anatolia Antiqua 30: 187–203.
2022: with Demet Delibaş. „Le cimetière byzantin (Tetraconchos area).” In Olivier Henry et al. “La saison 2021 à Labraunda.” Anatolia Antiqua 30: 121–161.
2022: with Demet Delibaş, „La zone du bâtiment tétraconque et le cimetière byzantin.” In Olivier Henry et al. “Labraunda 2019.” Anatolia Antiqua 30: 83–120.
2020: „Architectures of Surveillance: Houses and Stylites in the Northern Syrian ‘Dead Villages.’” In Constructing Sacred Space: Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean. Vasileios Marinis, Amy Papalexandrou, and Jordan Pickett (eds.). Brepols, Architectura Medii Aevi series (19-33).
2020: “Late Antique and Byzantine Caria.” In Karialılar, Denizcilerden Kent Kuruculara - The Carians, From Seafarers to City Builders. Olivier C. Henry and Ayşe Belgin-Henry (eds.). Yapı Kredi Yayınları (62-77).
2019: „Inscribing Caria: The Perseverance of Epigraphic of Epigraphic Traditions in Late Antiquity.” Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream. Stephen Mitchell and Philipp Pilhofer (eds). Brill, Early Christianity in Asia Minor series (202-225).
2019: “Beyond Spolia: A New Approach to Old Inscriptions in Late Antique Anatolia.” American Journal of Archaeology 123.4: 643-674. Peer-Review article.
2019: „Hiding in Plain Sight: Epigraphic Reuse in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias.” Journal of Late Antiquity 12.1:136-168. Peer-Review article.
2019: “Report on the 2018 Excavation near the Tetraconch,” in Olivier Henry et al. “Labraunda 2018.” Vorbericht der Ausgrabung: Anatolia Antiqua 27: 183-229.
2018: „Press Close to the Built Tomb,” Section 6.1 (297-300) in O. Henry et al. “Labraunda 2017.” Preliminary season report. Anatolia Antiqua 26: 209-320.
2017: „‚Great Fear:’ Epigraphy and Orality in a Byzantine Apse in Cappadocia.” Gesta 56.1: 5-26.Peer-Review article.
2016: „Andrôn A,” mit O. Henry, in „Labraunda 2015,” Vorbericht der Ausgrabung, O. Henry et al. Anatolia Antiqua 24: 339 - 457.

Encyclopedia entries

2015: „Church,” „Corpse,” „Titulus,” „Vatican,” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Eric Orlin et. al., (eds.). Routledge.

Reviews

2026: with M. Fafinski, J. Riemenschneider, and R. Steinacher, “Towards and Beyond the ‘Fall’: Rethinking Rome’s End.” Review Article in the Journal of Roman Studies 116.
2025: Rev. of Stephen Mitchell, The Christians of Phrygia from Rome to the Turkish Conquest, 2023. The Byzantine Review 7.
2024: Rev. of Svenja C. Dirksen and Lena S. Krastel (eds), Epigraphy Through Five Millennia. Texts and Images in Context, 2020. Sehepunkte 24.3.
2023: Rev. of Exhibition „Der Untergang des Römischen Reiches“ (The Fall of the Roman Empire), Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier. Studies in Late Antiquity.
2019: K. Bolle, C. Machado und C. Witschel (Hgg), The Epigraphic Cultures of Late Antiquity. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2017. Rezension im Journal of Roman Studies.

Editorial Board – Memberships – Roles

Editorial Board

since 2023: Co-editor of the journal Essays in Long Late Antiquity

Memberships – Roles

since August 2026: Member of the Kommission für Byzantinische Epigraphik, L’Association Internationale des Études Byzantines (AIEB)
2024: Member of the Selection Committee for the Awarding of Phi Beta Kappa Scholarships