Julia Wilker

Julia Wilker spent the 2008-09 academic year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. She received a Ph.D. in Ancient History in 2005 from the Freie Universität Berlin where she also taught Ancient History as Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in 2005-08 and 2009-11. In 2011, she joined the faculty of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Professor. Her major fields of interest include Jewish history in the Greco-Roman period, the Near East in Hellenistic and Roman times, late classical Greece, and interstate relations in classical antiquity. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural interactions and concepts of identity and normativity in the ancient world. Her present research focuses on concepts of interstate relations in the fourth century BCE and on the role of women in the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties. Her publications include Für Rom und Jerusalem. Die herodianische Dynastie im 1. Jahrhundert n.Chr. (2005), Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece (ed., 2011), and Amici – socii – clientes? Abhängige Herrschaft im Imperium Romanum (co-edited with Ernst Baltrusch, forthcoming).