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Dr. Altay Coskun

Dr. Altay Coskun

Associate Professor

Department of Classical Studies

ML 228

University of Waterloo

Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1

519-888-4567

acoskun at uwaterloo.ca

   

I joined the Department of Classical Studies in summer 2009, and I am now putting all my efforts in contributing to the teaching programs of the department and to the research agenda of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS), which was launched in 2010. With my students and colleagues, I am sharing my and their enthusiasm for the ancient world. I am particularly committed to the international character of classical studies, which encourages the learning of ancient and modern languages alike, the continuous exchange of views beyond the national boundaries, and the mobility to study abroad for some time.

 

My academic patria is the University of Trier in Western Germany, where I studied History and Classics in the 1990s and worked as a research fellow and lecturer in Classics and Ancient History until 2008. I continue to be a member of the Trier-based Collaborate Research Centre 600 (SFB 600) ‘Strangers and Poor People. Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion from Antiquity to the Present Day’ (2002–2012). Thanks to the German Academic Exchange Service, I enjoyed a productive postdoctoral fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford from 2000 to 2002. The Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation enabled me to pursue research on my ‘ancestors’, the Galatians in central Asia Minor, in the Department of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Exeter in the first half of 2009.

 

While I have taught subjects from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity, my research initially concentrated on Late Antiquity, where I dealt with imperial administration & legislation, prosopography, education, poetry, and religious conflicts. In 2002, my interests moved backwards to the (Late) Roman Republic (2nd-1st centuries BC) as well as to Hellenistic and Early Roman Asia Minor, especially to Ancient Galatia, which is located around modern Turkey’s capital Ankara. I am generally interested in constitutional and legal matters, international relations, the status of migrants and foreigners, as well as intercultural contacts. To learn about these matters, I draw on a variety of sources and methods, but I am trained best in analysing literary and legal sources, and to elicit some pieces of historical information out of names of persons and places.

 

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