PD Dr. Ursula Brosseder

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Previous positions

• 2019–2022
  Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), financed by German Science Foundation (DFG), Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, University of Bonn
• 2015–2018
  Researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), financed by German Science Foundation (DFG), Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, University of Bonn
• 2011–2015
  Akademische Rätin (~ Assoc. Professor, non-tenured), Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, University of Bonn
• 2005–2011
  Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin), Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, University of Bonn

Fellowships and Awards

• 2018–2019
  Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, USA
• Oct. 2015
  Visiting Researcher, Jilin University, Changchun, China
• 2013–2014
  Member, School for Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
• 2013–2014
  Research Fellow, Gerda Henkel Foundation
• 2004–2005
  Feodor Lynen-Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Institute of Archaeology, and Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
• 2002–2003
  Travel Fellowship of the German Archaeological Institute
• 1999–2001
  Dissertation Fellowship of the county of Berlin (NaFög)

Education

• 2021/2022
  Habilitation Philosophical Faculty, University of Bonn
• 2001
  PhD Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, Freie University Berlin
• 1998
  M.A. Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, Freie University Berlin
• 1990-1998
  Studying Pre-and Early Historical Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Provincial Roman Archaeology and Near Eastern Archaeology in Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin

Projects (third party financed only)

• 2015-2018; 2019-2022
  Bioarchaeological Studies on the Bronze and Iron Age Cemetery of Maikhan Tolgoi, Upper Orkhon Valley, Central Mongolia , PI, DFG, German Science Foundation
• 2012-2013
  Cultural change from the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age to the Late Iron Age (Xiongnu) in the Upper Orkhon Valley”, Central Mongolia, PI; Gerda Henkel Foundation
• 2011-2013
  Bioarchaeological Studies on the Bronze and Iron Age Cemetery of Maikhan Tolgoi, Upper Orkhon Valley, Central Mongolia (BARCOR)“. Pilot study. PI Jan Bemmann, DFG, German Science Foundation
• 2008-2010
  A chronological study of Xiongnu materials in Transbaikalia and Mongolia, PI, Gerda Henkel Foundation

Organisation of scientific meeting

• 03/2019
  International Workshop “Hunters – Herders – Horsemen. The dawn of monumental landscapes in Mongolia”, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, USA
• 02/2017
  International Conference on “Ritual Landscape, Memory and Social Complexity in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes”, Organizer, (DFG)
• 07/2013
  International Workshop on “Networks approaches and applications in Inner Asian Archaeology”, with Bryan Miller, Bonn
• 02/2012
  International Conference on “The Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the first Millennium AD. Empires, Cities, Nomads and Farmers”, Co-Organisation with Jan Bemmann, Michael Schmauder, Timo Stickler, Bonn
• 11/2011
  Organisation of session „Material Culture and Social Practice“ of the „3rd German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium 2011: Norms: Concepts and Practices“, with Avraham Faust, Israel
• 10/2008
  International Conference on Xiongnu Archaeology“, with Bryan Miller, Mongolia

Commissions of trust

• Grant reviewer: European Research Council; National Science Foundation, USA; Agence National de la recherche, France; Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria; American Philosophical Society, USA; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany;
• POINT Postdoc Fellowships, Freie University Berlin, Germany
• Peer-reviewer national and international journals: Archaeological Research in Asia, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Human Ecology, PlOS ONE, Radiocarbon, Antiquity, Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Erdkunde
• 2018
  Member of the archaeology group of HCERES, Paris (The High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education) (DER-SYNT190016851 - Synthèse nationale en Archéologie), www.hceres.fr/en/node/10819164
• Since 2017
  Associate Member of ERC-Research Group BASAR – Beyond the Silk Road. Economic Developments, Frontier Zones and Inter-Imperiality in the Afro-Eurasian World Region, 300 BCE to 300 CE, PI: Prof. Dr. Sitta von Reden www.basar.uni-freiburg.de
• Since 2015
  Member of Editorial Board: Theoria i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniia
• 2005-2015
  Co-editor of Bonner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie, vol. 5–16

Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

• Since 2015
  Host/Advisor of 3 Postdoctoral Fellows of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation (Inner Asian Archaeology), 3 PhD Students (Inner Asian Archaeology, UCL, NYU, Sorbonne), 3 Master Students (Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology, University of Bonn)

Teaching activities

• Since 2005
  Undergratuate courses: Introduction to Archaeology: Theories and Methods, Archaeology of the Early Iron Age in Europe, Analysis of style and imagery of the Early Iron Age, Bioarchaeology of Prehistoric Eurasia, Elites in Prehistory, Methods of bioarchaeological research, Cemetery of Hallstatt
  Graduate courses: Mounted nomads in Eurasia, Stelae in the Steppe, Archaeology of the Avars, Monumentality, Excursions to Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova

Memberships of scientific societies (current)

• Society for American Archaeology, Society of East Asian Archaeology, Gesellschaft für Archäologie für Württemberg und Hohenzollern e.V.