Dr. phil. Marlena Whiting
Akademischer Werdegang
2001 - 2005 Studium (BA) der Mittelalter- und Renaissancestudien, der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft an Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
2006 - 2008 Studium der Spätantiken und Byzantinische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte an University of Oxford (M.Phil)
2008 - 2014 Promotionsstudium (D.Phil) der Spätantiken Archäologie an University of Oxford
2014 Mitarbeiterin am Projekt “Late Antique Egypt and the Holy Land: Archaeology, History and Religious Change (Manar al-Athar)” an University of Oxford
2014 - 2015 Knowledge Exchange Fellow, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford
2015 Visiting Fellow am British Institute in Amman, Jordanie
2015 - 2019 Mitarbeiterin, Alte Geschichte an Universiteit van Amsterdam, Leiterin des Projekts ‘ ‘Gendering Sacred Space: Female Networks, Patronage, and Ritual Experience in Early Christian Pilgrimage’ (gefördert durch NWO)
2014 - 2015 Visiting Fellow am Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations der Koç University in Istanbul
seit 2019 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Projekt “Procopius and the Language of Buildings” (gefördert durch DFG), Seminar für Orientalische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte der Universität Halle-Wittenberg und Historisches Seminar – Alte Geschichte der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
https://www.instag.geschichte.uni-mainz.de/procopius-and-the-language-of-buildings/
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Archäologie des spätantiken Nahen Ostens
Reisen und Pilgerreisen in der Spätantike
Geschlecht und ‘Lived Religion’
Publikationen
Monogaphien
“A Gem of a Small Nabataean Temple” Excavations at Khirbet et-Tannur in Jordan with H. Wellman (Oxford: Manar al-Athar Publications, 2016) (für das allgemeine Publikum). Übersetzt ins Arabische von D. Sayegh with M. Kenawi (Oxford: Manar al-Athar Publications, 2018)
Aufsätze
‘Braided Networks: Pilgrimage and the Economics of Travel Infrastructure in the Late Antique Holy Land’ in T.M. Kristensen and A. Collar, eds, Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, (Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 62-90
Mit E. Salerno, ‘Women and Pilgrimage in the Ancient and Pre-modern World, (University of Amsterdam, June 8-9, 2018)’ Kleos - Amsterdam Bulletin of Ancient Studies and Archaeology 2 (2019), 81-90
‘Musings on Gender, Archaeology, and Pilgrimage in the Late Antique Near East,’ HospitAm: Hospitalités dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne: sources, enjeux, pratiques, discours. Uploaded 12/6/2018. https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/1380
‘Egeria: An Observant Pilgrim in the Holy Land’ in Crossroads: Travelling Through The Middle Ages (Allard Pierson Museums series; Vol. 7; WBooks, 2017), pp. 76-77. Übersetzt ins Deutsche: ‘Egeria: Eine aufmerksame Pilgerin im Heiligen Land’, Europa in Bewegung: Lebenswelten im frühen Mittelalter (WGB Theiss, 2017)
‘Accommodating Female Pilgrims in the Late Antique Holy Land,’ HospitAm: Hospitalités dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne: sources, enjeux, pratiques, discours. Uploaded 06/06/2017. https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/913
‘Gift of the Orontes: fluvial landscapes of northwest Syria in Late Antiquity’ in T.V. Franconi, ed., Fluvial Landscapes in the Roman World (Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series 104, Portsmouth RI, 2017), pp. 127-137
‘A River Runs Through It: the role of the Tigris and Euphrates in transport and communication in Late Antiquity’, in T. Papacostas, M. Parani, eds, Discipuli dona ferentes. Glimpses of Byzantium in honour of Marlia Mundell Mango (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), pp. 37-67
‘The Monastic Paradox: negotiating monastic seclusion and pilgrim hospitality in the Late Antique Near East,’ HospitAm: Hospitalités dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne: sources, enjeux, pratiques, discours. Uploaded 12/10/2016. https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/510
‘Monastery Hostels in Late Antique Syria, Palestine and Transjordan’ in J. Frösén and Z. Fiema, eds, Petra – The Monastery of Aaron. Volume 2 (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2016), pp. 108-13
‘Catalog of Selected Registered and Other Finds’ with A. Lehtinen, in J. Frösén and Z. Fiema, eds, Petra – The Monastery of Aaron. Volume 2 (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2016), pp. 369-79.15
‘Milestones in Late Antique Palestinae and Arabia’ in The Ancient Near East Today Vol. III, No. 8, August 2015
‘Asceticism and Hospitality as Patronage in the Late Antique Holy Land: the examples of Paula and Melania the Elder’ in M.E. Mullett, M. Grünbart, G. Fingarova, M. Savage, L. Theis, eds, Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond (Vienna: Böhlau, 2013), pp. 73-83
‘The Metal Objects from the Church and Chapel’ with S. Pouta in J. Frösén and Z. Fiema, eds, Petra – The Monastery of Aaron. Volume 1: The Church and Chapel (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2008), pp. 393-404