Lothar Willms

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Areas of specialization

Ancient philosophy (esp. Stoicism), ancient political philosophy, ancient drama, historical linguistics of Greek and Latin, Reception studies

Education

• Habilitation in Classical Philology, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2011

Title of the Habilitationsschrift “Zu einer Poetik und Hermeneutik der Transgression: Tragische und komische Handlungsstrukturen im antiken Drama [Poetics and Hermeneutics of Transgression – Tragic and Comic Patterns of Action in Ancient Drama]” (550 pp.)

• Ph.D. in Classics, University of Trier, Germany, 2004

Title of the dissertation: Epiktet und die Freiheit: Systematische Darstellung mit bewußtseinsgeschichtlichem Hintergrund; Übersetzung und Kommentar der Diatribe Über die Freiheit (4.1) [Epictetus and Freedom: His Conception and its Place in the Greek History of Ideas; Translation and Commentary of the Diatribe On Freedom (4.1)]

• First State Exam for Teaching Candidates (~ M.A.) in Latin, French, and Ancient Greek, University of Trier, Germany, 1999/2000
• Lettres classiques (French, Latin, and Greek) at the Université de Poitiers, France, with a DAAD-Scholarship [German Academic Exchange Service], Winter term 1995/96
• University of Trier, Germany: Latin, French, and Ancient Greek, 1993-1995

Languages

Latin, Ancient Greek, French, English, Italian, Middle Proficiency in Russian, Basics in Arabic, Modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Catalan

Professional Employment

• as of June 2022 DFG sponsored Heisenberg Fellow at the Department of Classics, Humboldt University at Berlin (Eleutheria: History of the Greek Idea of Freedom: Archaeology of a European Core Concept)
• August 2019 to March 2020 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for experienced researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg
• 2011-2019 Associate Professor (akademischer Rat auf Zeit) in the department of Classics at the University of Heidelberg
• 2004-2010 Assistant at the Chair of Greek and Latin Linguistics in the department of Classics at the University of Heidelberg
• Summer term 2001 to 2003 Lecturer for the Introduction into Latin and Greek Linguistics at the University of Trier (two courses)
• Winter 2000/01 Lecturer to take the teaching charge of a Senior Lecturer on Sabbatical (four courses) in the department of Classics at the University of Trier
• 1999/2000 Chief research officer at the interdisciplinary Project of Classics, Psychology and Sociology “Schmerzerfahrung und Schmerzbehandlung in der Antike [Experience and Therapy of Pain in Antiquity]” at the University of Trier
• 1997-1999 Research Assistant and Tutor for Latin and Greek at the University of Trier

Scholarships and Awards

• 2018: William M Calder III Fellowship, American Friends of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2017: William M Calder III Fellowship, American Friends of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for Experienced Researchers for a 18 months stay at Brown University, Providence, RI (August 1^rst, 2017 to January 31, 2019)
• Travel Grant from the DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service] for presenting at the 147th annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco, January 6–9, 2016
• Grant for print support of the Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften for the publication of the Habilitationsschrift (2012)
• Grant for print support of the Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften for the publication of the PhD Thesis (2010)
• Dissertation Award at the University of Trier (2005)
• Member of the Graduate School Cluster “Sklaverei - Knechtschaft und Frondienst - Zwangsarbeit. Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensformen von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert” [Slavery, Servitude, Socage, and Forced Labor. Unfree forms of life and work from Antiquity to the 20^th Century], University of Trier (2003/04)
• Dissertation Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes [German National Academic Foundation] (2001-2003)