Professor Dr. Gesa Schenke

Academic Education

1997 – 2000

Cologne University, PhD in Classical Archaeology

1994 – 1997

Cologne University, studies in Papyrology, MA in Egyptology, Classical Archaeology and Ancient Greek

1997

International Summer School in Papyrology, Christ Church, Oxford. Papyrusedition: P.Oxy 4629: Letter to a Countess

1992 – 1994

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, MA studies in Egyptology, Classical Archaeology and Ancient Greek

1988 – 1992

Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California, USA, BA in Classics und Anthropology

1990 – 1991

College Year in Athens, American School of Classical Studies

1984 – 1988

Catholic girls school in East Berlin

Positions

since 2019

Professor for Coptology at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology in Münster

2014 – 2018

Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Faculty of History. European Research Council Project: The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity, Electronic Corpus

2009 – 2014

Research Associate at Leiden University, School for Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden Institute for Area Studies. European Research Council Project: The Formation of Islam. The View from Below: The History of Islam’s First Two Centuries from Arabic, Greek and Coptic Papyri

2000 – 2009

Temporary lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology in Cologne

2007 – 2009

Research Associate at the Institute for Classics in Cologne, Papyrology, Epigraphy and Numismatics: Edition of the Coptic papyrus codex with the earliest Testament of Job (TestIob), financed by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

2004 – 2006

Research Fellow at the Institute for Egyptology in Cologne, Lise-Meitner-Habilitationsstipendium for the Project The Coptic Hagiographic Dossier of St Kollouthos

2001 – 2004

Research Associate at the Institute for Classics in Cologne, Digital ZPE