Dr. Anna-Katharina Rieger

Dr. Anna-Katharina Rieger

Katharina Rieger joined the RTG as coordinator in November 2025. Trained as Classical archaeologist (Munich, Bonn, Rome) her main interests revolve around mobility, space, material-visual  culture, and religion(s) in the ancient Mediterranean as well as theories in archaeology. Before coming to Eichstätt, she worked as a PostDoc and coordinator at the University of Graz in the International Graduate School “Resonant Self-World Relations”, (Graz/Erfurt). She was member of the ERC Advanced Grant “Lived Ancient Religion” at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, at University of Erfurt, with a project on material and spatial entanglements of sacred spaces in Roman Syria. Fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation have led her to Italy (1997-2000; 2015/2016), a fellowship from the University of Warsaw to Poland (2021-2022). In Egypt she directed the “Eastern Marmarica Survey” (DFG “Eigene Stelle”), a landscape archaeological project with a focus on mobile life-strategies in arid regions (2004-2011). She held positions at the universities of Halle–Wittenberg, Göttingen, and Berlin, at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, and the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. For her PhD-thesis on Heiligtümer in Ostia (Munich 2004) she was awarded the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute. Her publications range from co-edited volumes on interdisciplinary research or rural religion to contributions on material religion and papers about mobile life-strategies and economic history.