Christoph Lundgreen

Christoph Lundgreen is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany. He holds an M.A. from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, a PhD from TUD, and a Diplôme national de docteur from ÉPHÉ-Sorbonne, Paris. In addition to the CHS Fellowship, he has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize, the highest accolade for early career researchers in Germany. In 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford; recently he has spent 18 wonderful months in Rome thanks to a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has served on the board of both the Mommsen-Gesellschaft and the British Epigraphy Society. In 2016, he was elected to the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Before focusing on Ancient Greece, he has widely published on the Roman Republic, with an emphasis on Political and Cultural History, especially on the History of Norms, Laws and Legal systems. At the CHS, he was working on a monograph on Dimensions of Staatlichkeit in the Early Greek World, applying modern governance theory to the world of Homer, Gortyn and Antigone.