!!Dominik Maschek - Biography
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Dominik Maschek studied Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna, focusing on Roman art, architecture, material culture, and socio-political processes in the Roman world. After a PhD on the Doric frieze in Roman architecture, he held posts as Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2010 - 2015), Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Birmingham (2015 - 2018), and Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford (2018–2022). Since 2022, he has been Professor of Roman Archaeology at Trier University and Head of the Research Department of Roman Archaeology and Deputy General Director at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA, Mainz).\\
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He received his Habilitation at Darmstadt with “Die römischen Bürgerkriege “(2018; English edition 2025), a cultural-historical study of Late Republican civil wars. The German edition was shortlisted for “DAMALS: Das historische Buch des Jahres 2018”, and won the “Geisteswissenschaften International” award from the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.\\
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Maschek is a leading scholar in Roman architecture, urbanism, landscape and conflict archaeology, material culture, and methodological approaches to Roman imperialism. He directs long-term excavations at Fregellae in Italy, studying the impact of conflict on settlements, fortifications, and land use, and has developed projects on “conflict landscapes” and Roman construction. He is Co-Investigator of the Leibniz Science Campus Resiliencies and a central figure in networks on ancient building economies and architectural energetics. He has published 118 works, including four monographs and eight edited volumes.\\
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He was elected Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (2024) and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (2021), and held fellowships at the University of Zürich (2024), BerGSAS Berlin (2019), and the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome (2007 - 2008). He serves on editorial boards, regularly reviews for journals, publishers, and research funders, and acts as external examiner for programs and tenure cases across Europe.\\
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Maschek has delivered over 70 invited lectures in Europe and North America, presented more than 75 conference papers, and organised nine international conferences and multiple panels and workshops, including landmark events on architectural energetics and Roman construction. In 2023 and 2025, he delivered the annual Winckelmann Lectures at the University of Tübingen and Trier University.\\
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He has taught over 130 courses across Austria, Germany, and the UK, covering Roman art, architecture, urbanism, and settlement archaeology, and supervised sixteen PhD students and over fifty BA and MA theses. His academic service includes leadership in curriculum development, examination boards, graduate admissions, and professional governance. Since 2024, he has served as First Chairman of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft, the largest association of Classicists in German-speaking academia.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit dmaschek}][{ALLOW upload dmaschek}][{ALLOW comment All}]