#  Andreas Victor Walser 

 

 



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Andreas Victor Walser studied Ancient History and Economics at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), where he received a Ph.D. in 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he was Research Associate at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute in Munich. After a year as Lecturer at the University of Munich and as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center, he returned as Senior Research Associate to the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy in 2012. His main research area is the history of the Greco-Roman East, from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Period. In his book, Bauern und Zinsnehmer, Politik, Recht und Wirtschaft im frühhellenistischen Ephesos (C.H. Beck 2008), he examined the interactions between politics, law and the economy in the city of Ephesus in western Asia Minor in the years around 300 BCE. His recent articles dealt with the significance of popular courts for the democratic system in the Greek cities, the constitution of spatial boundaries through religious rituals, and references to Classical Antiquity in the jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. In preparation are articles on new Greek inscriptions from Anatolia and a monograph on the political, social, and urban implications of the fusion of formerly independent city-states to so-called sympoliteiai in the Greek world of the Hellenistic Period (4th - 1st century BCE). Since 2012, Victor is also co-editor of the journal Chiron.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2010 - 2011](/fellowship-year/2010-2011)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)