
Contact
Institute of Archaeological StudiesRuhr-Universität Bochum
Am Bergbaumuseum 31
D-44791 Bochum
Room 0.1.2a
Office Hours
Tue 10:00-11:00 am
during semester break by appointment
Phone
+49 (0)234 32-29902
Soi.Agelidis@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Publications
Dr. Soi Agelidis
Research Interests
- Greek religion and festival culture
- Afterlife, death and funerary cult
- Concepts of space in Greek antiquity
- Legitimation strategies of ancient rulers
- Topography and urbanistics
- Greek sculpture
- Choregia and theatre
Curriculum Vitae
- since 03/2021 Akademische Rätin (Assistant professor/Lecturer) at the Institute of Archaeological Studies and scientific director of the Kunstsammlungen Antike (arts collection antiquity) of the RUB
- 01/2020–02/2021 Akademische Rätin auf Zeit (Assistant professor/Lecturer) at the Institute of Archaeological Studies and acting scientific director of the Kunstsammlungen Antike (arts collection antiquity) of the RUB
- since winter term 2016/17 Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the Ruhr-University Bochum
- 2015–2016 lectureship at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
- 2010–2015 Scientific Adviser for Library and Excavations at the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute
- winter term 2011/2012 lectureship at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
- 2008–2010 Scientific museum assistant-in-training at the Antiquity Collection of the State Museums in Berlin
- 2006–2008 Advanced training scholarship holder from the German Archaeological Institute in the Istanbul Department
- 2005–2006 Independent contractor for the State Art Collections in Dresden – Sculpture Collection
- 2004 Doctorate of Philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
- 2001–2004 Scholarship holder at the DFG-funded graduate's college at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz for a project entitled "Raum und Ritual. Funktion, Bedeutung und Nutzung sakral bestimmter Räume und Orte" (Space and ritual. Function, meaning and use of sacred spaces and places).
- 2001 Magistra Artium at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- 1995–2001 Study of Classical Archaeology, Classical Philology / Greek and Art History
at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Participation in excavation and
survey projects in Abdera (Greece), Pergamon (Turkey), Milet (Turkey) and Kalapodi
(Greece)
Research Projects
- Hated and irreconcilable? Hades in the religious practice and the religious ideas of
the Greeks from the Archaic to the Imperial Period (habilitation project) - The Ploutoneion of Eleusis: Recording – Visualization – Processing
- The spatial turn in the exploration of ancient festivals